Christopher Archibald

My DPhil project examines the literary culture of English Catholics produced during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. This diverse and neglected literature includes history plays, poetry miscellanies, conversion narratives, travelogues, and prose romances. I consider how these texts engage with contemporary political upheaval and forge communal identities. My broader research interests lie in the relationship between post-reformation literature and politics, the representation of affect and memory, and Anglo-European cultural interactions.

I studied for undergraduate and masters degrees at Oxford (BA 2017; MSt. 2018). Before starting my DPhil, I spent six months working at Curtis Brown Literary Agents and three months at the archives of the English College, Rome. My work has been published in the Review of English Studies and is forthcoming in Studies in Philology.