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Katharine Addis is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sussex, affiliated with the Department of English and Creative Writing under the School of Media, Arts and Humanities. Her research bridges Renaissance literature, critical race studies, and classical philosophy.
- BA in English from Cambridge University (2014)
- MA and PhD in Literature from New York University (2019, 2022)
Her current book project examines slavery's literary and material-historical dimensions in 16th-century European epic poems, including works by Camões, Tasso, and Spenser. She also explores early modern translations and the relevance of Platonism to theories of bondage and poetics.
Recent publications analyze Spenser's Faerie Queene through frameworks like Aristotelian ethics, Wynter's decolonial thought, and slavery logic. Her podcast Occasion of the Season engages with Renaissance pastoral poetry and rural life.
Scientific Awards
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Grants
- Slavery and the Renaissance Epic, 1569-96 (British Academy, 2023-2026)
