Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Professor Jessica Malay is a leading scholar of early modern women's writing and early modern culture more generally. Much of her work straddles the disciplinary lines of literature, history, and cultural studies. She interested in manuscript culture of the period and has produced three editions, including the first print edition of the Lady Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record. Much of her work is focused on promoting a greater visibility for writing by women, and also to reshape the narrative of women's participation in the socio/political environment in Early Modern England. In 2014 she published the autobiography of the previously unknown Mistress Mary Hampson, and included in this edition a detailed biography that detailed the harrowing life of this woman trapped in a cycle of domestic violence.
Most recently Professor Malay has received a Leverhulme Trust Project grant for the three year project: Autobiographical Acts in Seventeenth-century England, Wales, Scotland and New England which will use civil court records to explore the discourse of the autobiographical in seventeenth-century society. Professor Malay is research leader for English and Creative writing, and oversees postgraduates in this area. She is also chair of the University of Huddersfield's Professoriate Network.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Seventeenth Century Autobiography
- Women 's writing in the English Renaissance
- Sibylline imagery in the poetry and prose of the English Renaissance
- Representations of social space in the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries
- Manuscript studies
- Gender Studies
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Research Output
Becoming Anne Clifford
Malay, J., 15 Nov 2019, Women and the Land, 1500-1900. Capern, A. L., McDonagh, B. & Aston, J. (eds.). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, p. 77-99 23 p. (People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History; vol. 15).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Book Review: Rosemary O'Day. An Elite Family in Early Modern England: The Temples of Stowe and Burton Dassett, 1570–1656. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018 Pp.499. (cloth)
Malay, J., 1 Jan 2019, In : Journal of British Studies. 58, 1, p. 204-205 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review
Elizabeth Hardwick's material negotiations
Malay, J., Jan 2019, Bess of Hardwick New Perspectives. Hopkins, L. (ed.). Manchester University Press, p. 142-158 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Anne Clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590–1676
Malay, J. (ed.), Jan 2018, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 336 p.Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition
Book Review: Review of "The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic" edited by Owen Davies
Malay, J., 12 May 2018, In : Seventeenth-Century News. 76, 1&2, p. 37-42 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review
Open Access
Activities
MLA International Symposium
Jessica Malay (Participant)
24 Jul 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
47th Annual Meeting, Shakespeare Association of America
Jessica Malay (Speaker)
18 Apr 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Anne Clifford: Engagements in Culture
Jessica Malay (Speaker)
16 Jul 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
‘Anne Clifford’s Transformation of Westmorland through the Construction of Households’
Jessica Malay (Speaker)
19 Mar 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press / Media
Rare handwritten volume of Ted Hughes poems bought by Huddersfield University for almost £12,000
25/05/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment