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Bethany Dubow is a Salvesen Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford. She holds a Research Fellow academic rank and specializes in early modern English poetics, with a focus on intersections between geometry, ecology, and literature. Her current projects include revising a monograph on Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and developing a study on early modern ecopoetics.
- Education:
- B.A. English, Churchill College, University of Cambridge
- M.A. English Literature (1550-1700), Somerville College, University of Oxford
- PhD English, King’s College, University of Cambridge
- Prior Positions:
- Stipendiary Lectureship in English at Oriel College (2023-2025)
- AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cambridge (2023)
- Wiener-Anspach Doctoral Fellow, Université libre de Bruxelles (2021)
Her research bridges literary analysis with scientific concepts, exploring how Spenser’s geometries in The Faerie Queene challenge contemporary cosmic models. Her 2022 study on Spenser’s “toadstool poetics” earned the ISS Isabel MacCaffrey Prize for best Spenser essay (2021-22).
Publications span Spenserian studies, early modern verse forms, and ecocritical approaches to Renaissance drama. She has contributed to journals like Exemplaria and Spenser Studies, alongside book chapters in Edmund Spenser and Animal Life.
Her work frequently examines material culture—such as glassmaking allegories in John Webster’s plays—to reveal environmental and creative interconnections in early modern thought.
