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Beth Rebecca Cortese (She/Her)

Associate Professor Assistant Professor/ Lecturer in English Literature
School of Humanities
Faculty of Languages and Cultures
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Veröld - Hús Vigdísar -  VHV-206
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My research focuses primarily on playwrights from the Restoration (1660-1689) and eighteenth-century. I am particularly interested in women writers, such as Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish, and Frances Burney. I have also worked on inheritance in eighteenth-century fiction.I am also interested in key word analysis in relation to seventeenth and eigthteenth-century British literature. My research often focuses on gender and performance. I also write creatively, mainly poetry and children's stories. I have supervised BA and MA creative writing projects (including short story collections and novels). My PhD on women's wit in drama, 1660-1720 is being considered for publication as a book. I am currently researching asides in Restoration drama using key word analysis and editing a new edition of William Wycherley's comedy The Country Wife (1675) with Bloomsbury.

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Education
  • 2018 English Literature PhD on Women's Wit in plays from 1660-1720
  • 2014 Master's English Literature MA Literary Studies
  • 2013 BA English Literature and Creative Writing English Literature with Creative Writing
Courses 2025 - 2026