Clodagh Murphy

Clodagh Murphy completed her PhD on the ERC consolidator project FEATHERS at Leiden University, exploring the collaborative production of Queen Elizabeth I's English scribal letters.

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I am an early modernist specialising in manuscript culture, authorship, and epistolary culture, with expertise in archival research, palaeography, bibliography, and interdisciplinary/mixed methodological approaches. My PhD thesis, funded as part of the ERC consolidator FEATHERS project, investigates the collaborative production of Queen Elizabeth I's English scribal letters. By combining bibliographical, historical, and literary methods with digital and quantitative techniques I explore how Elizabeth's epistolary authorship was negotiated through the queen's collaborations with her secretaries, and analyse the influence of her scribes on her letters. My research interests include early modern scribal and manuscript culture, letter writing, authorship, collaborative writing practices, royal writings, bibliography, palaeography, and digital approaches to literary and non-literary texts.