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Elisabeth Jones BA (Cardiff), MA (Cardiff), PhD (Cardiff)

Dr Elisabeth Jones

(she/her)

BA (Cardiff), MA (Cardiff), PhD (Cardiff)

Widening Participation Officer

School of English, Communication and Philosophy

Overview

I am a Widening Participation Officer in the WP and Outreach team. From 2021-23, I developed and delivered a project to support student transitions to Cardiff University during and 'post' Covid-19. I am now responsible for supporting outreach initiatives for priority groups, with particular focus on students with autism spectrum conditions and mature students.

In 2022, I completed my PhD in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy. I researched the representation of 'unquiet' medieval queens in late Elizabethan history plays. I also delivered seminars and writing support tutorials.

Publication

Research

My research interests include: queenship, early modern drama, history plays, Shakespeare, motherhood and maternity, old age and ageing women, feminism, periodisation (particularly medieval into early modern and 'premodernism')

I am also interested in teaching, study skills support, and transition to university. I am passionate about widening participation and outreach.
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

I have delivered seminars for the following undergraduate English Literature modules:

  • Critical Reading and Critical Writing (Core module)
  • Drama: Stage and Page
  • Star-Cross'd Lovers: The Politics of Desire
  • Transgressive Bodies in Medieval Literature

Step Up to University

As an Outreach PhD tutor for Cardiff University's Widening Participation scheme 'Step Up to University', I designed and delivered masterclasses to year 12 students from schools and colleges across South Wales.

  • Daring Drama: Putting Medieval Monarchs and Renaissance Royalty Centre Stage ('Humanities' stream)
  • English Literature and Creative Writing Across Time, Form, and Genre ('English' stream)
  • REBELLION!: Read, Said, Seen ('Language, Literacy, and Communication' stream)

The Brilliant Club's Scholars Programme

As a Brilliant Club PhD tutor, I designed and delivered courses that promote university-style learning amongst secondary school students. I delivered the following courses in various South Wales schools an FE colleges:

  • Into the Deep, Dark Woods: A Journey through Literature, a pre-designed Key Stage 2 course
  • Through the Looking Glass: Introduction to Literary Theory, a pre-designed Key Stage 3 course
  • Game of Thorns: Putting the 'Roses' of the Wars Centre Stage in the 1590s, a self-designed Key Stage 4 course
  • Dreamlands and Hellscapes: creating the (im)perfect world, a self-designed Key Stage 4 and 5 course

Biography

I completed my thesis in January 2022 and passed my viva with no corrections in March 2022. I was supervised by Professor Megan Leitch, now of the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

I am currently reviewing my thesis and plan to revise it as a monograph.

Professional memberships

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2020)

Speaking engagements

  • ‘“False Frenchwomen”: Staging the French Queens of England in the History Plays’ (British Shakespeare Association conference, Swansea University, 2019) (postgraduate bursary recipient)

  • ‘“I am a garment out of fashion; I must be ripped. To pieces with me!”: Refashioning Romance, Refashioning (Lost) Female Identity in Shakespeare’s Late Plays’ (Medieval Insular Romance conference, Cardiff University, 2018)

  • ‘“Thy honour, state, and seat is due to me”: Rival queens, kinship, and frenemies in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy and late Elizabethan politics’ (ENCAPsulate conference, Cardiff University, 2018)

Contact Details

Email JonesEL17@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29225 10734
Campuses sbarc|spark, Room 03.14, Maindy Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ

Research themes

Specialisms

  • 16th century
  • Renaissance drama
  • Early Modern literature
  • English literature
  • Widening participation

External profiles