Dumbleton, Dr Adam

Dr Adam Dumbleton

Stipendiary Lecturer in English

Academic background

Adam completed his BA & MSt at New College, Oxford (2015-19). He studied his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge (2020—2024).

Teaching

Undergraduate: FHS papers 1 (Shakespeare) and 3 (1550-1660).

Research interests

Translation culture; poetics and versification; revision; classical reception; intellectual history and the European book trade; commentary; encyclopaedism; epistolary culture; early modern visual arts

Recent Publications

‘Antiquarianism, Philology, and Translatio Studii in the Epistolary Translations of Sir John Hobart and Nicholas Bacon’, The Seventeenth Century Vol. 38 No. 4 (2023), 649-673 https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2023.2174175

‘John Polwhele’s Boethius, Translation, and Revision’, Translation and Literature 33.3 (2024), 275-95.
 
‘Artistic Culture and the Book Trade in Late Seventeenth-Century London’, The Cambridge Quarterly, forthcoming.