Lucy R. Hinnie
Thesis title: Negotiating the Querelle Des Femmes in the Bannatyne MS (c. 1568)
PhD in English Literature (Part-time)
Year of study: 6
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: lucy.hinnie@ed.ac.uk
- Web: lucyrhinnie.co.uk
PhD supervisor:
Background
Brought up in North East Scotland, Lucy moved to Edinburgh in 2006 where she undertook her MA in English and Scottish Literature. Her M.Phil research thesis ‘Dido Enflambyt: The Tragic Queen of Carthage in Gavin Douglas’ Eneados (1513)’ was completed in 2012. She currently lives in Glasgow with two cats and a solicitor.
Lucy is the recipient of the 2016 BFWG Caroline Spurgeon Scholarship and an annual bursary from the Scottish International Education Trust. She has held awards from the Next Generation Bursary Fund and the Walter Scott Bursary (both at Glasgow University) and a bequest from the Reid Trust for Women. She works as an Assistant Editor on the Journal of the Northern Renaissance. She has reviewed poetry for Tower Poetry magazine at Christ Church, Oxford and is an active member of the Robert Henryson Society. In 2015 she and Meg Oldman founded the Medieval Scottish Makars Society.
Outwith university hours, Lucy is training to be a Humanist celebrant, and also works in administration. She was previously President of Theatre Paradok, whose production of ‘Grimm Tales’ was the 2010 English Literature Department Play.
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CV
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Qualifications
MA English and Scottish Literature, University of Edinburgh, 2010
MPhil Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, 2012
Responsibilities & affiliations
Graduate Women Scotland, Member (2017 - present)
Medieval Makars Society, Co-Founder (2015 - present)
New Chaucer Society, Member (2015 - present)
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Member (2015 - present)
Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, Member (2015 - present)
Scottish Text Society, Member (2014 - present)
University of Edinburgh Works in Progress, Co-Ordinator (2013-14)
University of Edinburgh Medieval Reading Group, Co-Founder (2013)
No More Blue Mondays, Co-Convener (2013-14)
Student Reader James Tait Black Literary Prize, (2012-14)
Robert Henryson Society, Treasurer (2012 - present)
Undergraduate teaching
Scottish Literature 1 - Writing the Nation
Research summary
Lucy is currently working with Dr Sarah Dunnigan on her doctoral thesis, provisionally entitled ‘Negotiating the querelle des femmes in Scottish Literature, 1424-1570’. She is currently looking at the fourth section of the Bannatyne Manuscript (c.1568) and the Maitland Quarto (c.1586). Her MPhil thesis offered an historicist reading of the character of Dido in Gavin Douglas’ vernacular translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, with particular discussion of Douglas’ use of commentary and para-text in his prologues.
Her primary research interests focus on the work of the ‘Makars’ Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas; the writing and reception of Christine di Pisan; the tensions between paganity and Christianity in the fifteenth and sixteenth century and the nature of medieval transcreation, as well as the influence of Chaucer in Scotland.
Other topics of interest include Chaucer himself; Sir David Lyndsay and medieval drama; the voices of classical women in medieval and modern literature; medieval dream vision; the work of Boccaccio and Petrarch; re-imaginings of the Orphic myth, particularly in the cinematic vision of Jean Cocteau; modernist literary concerns regarding the return to classical allusion and twentieth century poetry such as Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.
2016 The Maitland Quarto ed. Joanna M. Martin. Scottish Literary Review 8.2, Autumn/Winter 2016: Bell and Bain, Glasgow .
2016 ’The Palice of Honour’. The Literary Encyclopedia 1.2.3: Scottish Writing and Culture, 400-present. http://tinyurl.com/zk69mdj
2014 ’Self-Funded Postgraduate Study’. The New Academic, September 2014. http://tinyurl.com/l3r279l
2014 What Long Miles by Kona MacPhee. Edinburgh Review, Autumn 2014: Edinburgh.
2013 Ane Satire of the Three Estates. Cahiers Elisabethains, Autumn 2013: Montpelier, France.
2013 The Theatre of the Body in Medieval London by Kate Cregan. Hortulus Journal, 9.1, 2013.
2013 In The Light Of by Ciaran Carson. Poetry Matters, March 2013: Christ Church, Oxford.
2013 Be My Reader by Alec Findlay. Poetry Matters, January 2013: Christ Church, Oxford.
Funding Capture
2016 £4000 British Foundation for Women Graduates Caroline Spurgeon Scholarship
2016 £250 Medium Aevum Conference Funding (with Dr Claire Harrill, University of Birmingham)
2016 £150 Society for Renaissance Studies Travel Grant
2014-17 £1000 p.a Scottish International Educational Trust
2011-14 £2000 p.a Scottish International Educational Trust
2013 £300 Huntly Educational Trust
2011 £1000 Reid Trust For Women
2010 £500 Walter Scott Bursary, University of Glasgow
2010 £500 Next Generation Bursary Award, University of Glasgow
SAINTS AND SINNERS: LITERARY FOOTPRINTS OF MARY AND MARGARET - Edinburgh, October 2016. Organiser.
In association with Dr Claire Harill, University of Birmingham.
SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES 7TH BIENNIALCONFERENCE. University of Glasgow, July 2016. Speaker.
Literary Reform and Marian Influence in the Bannatyne Manuscript.
51ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES. University of Western Michigan, May 2016. Speaker.
A ‘Tretis’ for Tricksters – Figuring the Female in Middle Scots Verse
SCOTTISH MEDIEVALISTS. Croy, January 2016. Invited Speaker.
The Makar and the Ladeis Fair: William Dunbar and the querelle des femmes
NTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS. Unviersity of Leeds, May 2015. Speaker.
Literary Reform and Marian Influence in the Bannatyne Manuscript.
50TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES. University of Western Michigan, May 2015. Speaker.
The Makar and the Ladeis Fair: William Dunbar and the querelle des femmes
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SCOTTISH LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, July 2014. Speaker.
Thankless Mowths and Evill Wemen: Representing the Feminine in the Bannatyne MS, 1568.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS. University of Leeds, UK, July 2015. Speaker.
Governance, Marriage and the Kingis Quair.
THE ENEADOS AT 500. University of Birmingham, UK, September 2013. Invited speaker.
Gavin Douglas, ‘Sanct Austyne’ and Leful Love.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SCOTTISH LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE. Università degli Studi di Padova, July 2011. Speaker.
Dido Enflambyt: The Tragic Queen of Carthage in Gavin Douglas’ 1513 Eneados.