Rachel Adcock

Dr. Rachel Adcock is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Humanities Employability Lead at Keele University's School of Humanities. She holds a PhD from Loughborough University (2011), with research focused on 17th-century women’s religious writings and dissenting communities. Her monograph Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 (2015) was nominated for the Richard L. Greaves Prize. She edits early modern texts, including contributions to the Cambridge Edition of Aphra Behn’s works, earning a Josephine Roberts Award in 2021.

Her research explores women’s textual roles in dissenting movements, ritual studies, and early modern women’s writing. She co-edited Flesh and Spirit: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing (2014) and participates in the Dissenting Experience project cataloging church records. She serves as European Treasurer for the International John Bunyan Society and co-edits Bunyan Studies.

Teaching focuses on employability, including work placement modules and frameworks with Tatton Park Library. She convenes courses on literature, social change, and gender in Restoration drama. Awards include a Keele TIPS grant (2022) for authentic assessment initiatives.