Emma Whipday

Dr. Emma Whipday is a Lecturer at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University. Her research focuses on Early Modern drama, particularly the intersections of gender, power, and class, with an emphasis on domestic abuse, sibling relationships, and incest in Jacobean and Elizabethan drama.

Her work bridges literary scholarship with performance-based methodologies, including theatrical close reading, verbatim theatre experiments, and creative practice. She co-edits the essay collection Playing and Playgoing: Actor, Audience, Performance in Early Modern England, exploring the phenomenological experience of performers and audiences in historic playhouses.

• Key Research Themes: Domestic tragedies, true crime narratives, embodied research methods.
• Collaborations: Lucy Munro (King’s College London), Shakespeare’s Globe practitioners.
• Digital Humanities: Utilizes archives like the Early Broadside Ballad Archive.

Her recent publications and projects highlight Shakespearean studies, sibling dynamics, and innovative approaches to reconstructing historical performance practices. She advocates for interdisciplinary methodologies that integrate subjective scholarly experience.