Elizabeth Goodwin

Dr. Elizabeth Goodwin is a Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern History at York St John University's School of Humanities. She holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield (2015) and has taught at multiple UK institutions including Birmingham and Loughborough before joining YSJU in 2018. Her research examines religious communities, female spirituality, and material culture during the Reformation era.

Research interests focus on religious women's experiences during institutional dissolution, emotional communities in exile, and gendered aspects of late medieval devotional practices. She employs interdisciplinary approaches combining textual analysis with visual and material culture studies.

Publications analyze resistance narratives, emotional rhetoric in historical discourse, and methodological approaches to studying fragmented communities. Conference presentations include the Society for Renaissance Studies and International Medieval Congress.

Awards include the Yorkshire History Prize (2017), Durham research fellowship (2018), and Higher Education Academy senior fellowship. Public engagement includes heritage projects like the Tinsley Court Rolls initiative and BBC collaborations on Reformation history.