Suthren, Dr Carla

Academic background

Carla began with a BA in Classics and English, followed by an M.St. in Classics, both at Magdalen College, Oxford. After that, she swerved back into English for her AHRC-funded PhD, ‘Shakespeare and the Renaissance Reception of Euripides’, at the University of York.

Teaching

Undergraduate: Carla teaches early modern literature, including the 1550-1660 period paper and Shakespeare. She also teaches on the Classics and English course, both in College (including the Epic paper) and for the Classics Faculty, specialising in Classical Reception.

Graduate: Her Masters level teaching includes ‘Theory and Methods of Reception’ for the Classics Faculty, and supervision of graduate students working in the area of Classical Reception.

Research interests

Carla’s main areas of research are in early modern literature, Shakespeare, and Classical Reception (in and beyond the early modern period). She has particular interests in early modern drama, Greek tragedy, translation, adaptation and performance studies, classical reception theory, history of the book, and writing by women. She is interested in interdisciplinary approaches and the ways in which early modern English literature intersects with and is shaped by European contexts and mediations (especially Italian and French). She is currently working on her first monograph, entitled Tyrannous Passions: Shakespeare and the Renaissance Reception of Euripides, which aims to contribute to a wider critical effort to re-think the literary history of the English Renaissance by emphasising a significant engagement with Greek literature, of which our understanding is still far less developed in comparison to Latin authors.

Recent Publications

‘A Wrinkle in Time: Shakespeare’s Anachronic Art’, Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies 11 (2024): 95-116.

‘Through the Looking Glass: Reflections of the Prodigal Daughter’, Early Theatre 27.2 (2024): 157-70.

‘Afterword: The Editor as Translator’, in Sonia Massai, ‘The Operation of Individual Judgement’: In Praise of Critical Editing (Verona: Skenè Studies II, 2024), pp. 61-84.

‘Hythloday’s Books: Humanism and the Republic of Letters’, in Cathy Shrank & Phil Withington eds. The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More’s Utopia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 36-52.

‘The Eidolon Paradox: Re-presenting Helen from Euripides to Shakespeare’, in Marco Duranti and Emanuel Stelzer eds., A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage (Skenè Texts, 2022), pp. 97-136.

‘Iphigenia in English: Reading Euripides with Jane Lumley’, in Alessandra Petrina and Federica Masiero eds., Acquisition Through Translation: Towards a Definition of Renaissance Translation, TMT 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020), pp. 73-92.

‘Translating Commonplace Marks in Gascoigne & Kinwelmersh’s Jocasta’, Translation and Literature 29 (2020): 59-84. Special issue, ‘Classical Tragedy Translated in Early Modern England’, ed. Katherine Heavey.