Lauren Working is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of York. Her research explores literary sociability, material culture, and colonialism in Tudor and Stuart London.
Susannah Lyon-Whaley is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (UKRI-guaranteed) postdoctoral fellow at the University of York. Her research focuses on seventeenth-century Stuart queens and their entanglements with the materials of nature from overseas.
Rachel Hogue is an MA student in Eighteenth Century Studies. Her dissertation focuses on women who bought, sold, and made clothing in eighteenth-century York. She enjoys researching the relationships between people, objects, and ideas and is especially drawn to histories of garment-making, early scientific thought, and reconciliatory studies of the history of enslavement.
Daisy Glassett-King is a third-year student in the English Department at York. Her research interests include sartorial and material culture, and literature as a reflection of political and cultural climates in the eighteenth century.
Mumia Douse-Bah is a recent English Literature and History of Art graduate of the University of York. Her research interests are pre-colonial and post-colonial architectural histories of Ghana and India, Belgian Art nouveau architecture and European and South-Asian material histories.