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Holly Fletcher is a Research Associate in the Department of History at the University of Manchester, part of the Wellcome Trust-funded project 'Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World.' Her research focuses on cultural history, particularly the history of the body, material culture, and environmental practices in early modern German and English-speaking contexts. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she also completed her BA and MPhil. Prior to Manchester, she taught early modern history at the University of Sussex.
Her current work examines material strategies for sleep environments in early modern Britain, Ireland, and America (c. 1500–1750). Her doctoral research on body size in early modern Germany challenges modern assumptions about historical attitudes toward fatness and thinness, exploring their cultural and material significance in German-speaking regions. This work is under contract as a monograph with Oxford University Press.
Fletcher has organized international conferences on topics such as 'The Reformation of the Body' (2019) and 'Fat Bodies in the Early Modern World' (2022), co-edited an upcoming Routledge volume, and runs the 'New Directions in the History of the Body' interview series. Her awards include the German History Article Prize (2021) and a Santorio Fellowship (2021). She is affiliated with the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective at Manchester.
