Marcus Nevitt

Dr Marcus Nevitt is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Sheffield's School of English, where he was appointed in 2002 after teaching positions at the University of Hertfordshire and University of Leeds. His office is located in Jessop West building at 1 Upper Hanover Street, Sheffield.

His research focuses on seventeenth-century literature with particular expertise in print culture, news media, and Restoration theatre. Key interests include:

• Women's agency in Civil War pamphlets
• Newsbook production and circulation
• Restoration theatrical patronage
• Royalist literary responses during the Interregnum
• Intersections of journalism and poetry

Nevitt's publication trajectory reveals a scholarly evolution from early work on revolutionary pamphlets to current focus on Restoration theatre. His 2006 monograph Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England established foundational work on female print engagement, while recent projects include co-editing Seventeenth-Century Journalism and the Digital Age (2017) and contributing to Aphra Behn's Complete Works. Current research examines Restoration theatre patronage through dedicated book projects.

He actively supervises postgraduate research and teaches across undergraduate and MA modules including Renaissance Poetry, Restoration Literature, and Writing the English Civil War. His external engagement includes regular book reviewing for The Spectator.

Nevitt holds significant research funding including a £200,000 AHRC Speculative Research Grant for 'Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason’s Newsbooks' and a £10,000 HEIF 4 Grant for archival work with Derbyshire Record Office.