Lecturer in English, Loughborough University
Catie Gill currently teaches on the Digital Humanities programme, and across the English undergraduate programmes, contributing to modules about Renaissance and Early Modern writing. Her particular area of expertise is the later seventeenth century – a point of unprecedented historical change – and she is a specialist in women’s writing from this period.
How women and the moon intertwine in literature
Jul 21, 2019 11:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
In the late 17th century, the female English playwright Aphra Behn wrote a smash hit play about a man obsessed with the moon, who was constantly travelling there in his imagination. Exactly 282 years later, Neil Armstrong...
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