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Paulina Kewes

Paulina Kewes is a British literary historian and professor of English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford and Helen Morag Fellow. Her primary research interests concern the convergence of history and literary studies, including study the political thought and classical reception in Early Modern English literature.

Early Life and Education
Paulina Kewes received her Master of Arts from the University of Gdansk, followed by her DPhil from Jesus College, Oxford in 1996.

Career
Between 1995-1997 Kewes held at Junior Research fellowship at the University of Oxford. She then undertook the position of Lecturer at Aberystwyth University, later becoming Senior Lecturer at the same institution before returning to Jesus College, Oxford in 2003 as a Tutorial Fellow.

In 2015 she became Co-Investigator, alongside Andrew McRae for the AHRC-funded 'The Stuarts Succession Project', which examines the literature pertaining to the succession of the House of Stuart in Britain between 1603-1702. In 2021 Professor Kewes was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2021-2024).

Professor Kewes has held a range of senior academic positions, including Chair of the Joint School of History and English. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and sits on the editorial boards of the Huntington Library Quarterly, Postgraduate English, the Critical Survey and Oxford English Monographs Committee. Furthermore, she is a member of the Polish Scientific Society Abroad and the first woman to be made a Senior Member of the Oxford University Polish Society.

Monographs
Ed. Ancient Rome and Political Culture in Early Modern England, special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly, 83 (2020).

Ed. with Andrew McRae, Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

Ed. with Susan Doran, Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014; pbk 2016).

Ed. with Ian Archer and Felicity Heal, The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). See also The Holinshed Project.

Ed. The Uses of History in Early Modern England (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 2006), pp. ix +449.

Ed. Plagiarism in Early Modern England (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. xv+276.

Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. xiv+304.

Articles
‘Translations of State: Ancient Rome and Late Elizabethan Political Thought’, in Ancient Rome and Political Culture in Early Modern England, ed. Paulina Kewes, special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly, 83 (2020). 467-498.