Dr Louise H Marshall

Lecturer
BA (Hons), PGCE (Lancaster), MA (Wales), PhD (Wales)

Contact

Email: lom@aber.ac.uk
Office: C18
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622988

Teaching Areas

Louise Marshall lectures on Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature. She teaches specialist options on eighteenth-century drama and women dramatists, female communities and fantasy during the Restoration and eighteenth century. Louise also teaches literary theory, contemporary writing and has interests in digital culture and community.

Research

Louise’s research focuses on Restoration and eighteenth-century drama. In particular she has carried out work on the relationship between politics and history on the eighteenth century stage, the dramatisation of national identity and versions of Britishness. She has written on the representation of Welshness in eighteenth-century history plays and the role of Wales as modern Britain’s originary nation in eighteenth-century political discourse.  Louise is currently working on a project that explores the representation of female community in eighteenth-century texts. This work will examine the relationship between the authorised spaces occupied by women’s communities and the un-authorised or fantasised functions that these spaces serve in eighteenth-century writing. Louise also has interests in pedagogic research, particularly in relation to technology-enhanced learning and during the 2007-2008 academic session she acted as an E-Learning Advocate, part of a national project funded by the English Subject Centre.

Staff Publications

Louise has published several articles that discuss the political resonance of the early eighteenth-century stage and the dramatic representation of mythologies of Britishness. She has written for The History of European Ideas on the representation of Patriotic women in early eighteenth-century adaptations of Shakespeare and for The British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies on the dramatisation of national identity. Her book, National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations of British Identity on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage (Palgrave, 2008),  examines a set of history plays that contribute to eighteenth-century debates regarding Britishness, colonial identity and the nation’s place in a world of increasing commercial and imperial possibilities.