Dr Kate Roddy, BA, M.Litt, (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne), PhD (Dublin)
Kate Roddy gained her B.A. in English Literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2004, and went on to attain an MLitt in 2005, writing her dissertation on the works of Christopher Marlowe. In July 2010 she attained a PhD from Trinity College Dublin with the thesis ‘The Image of Both Churches: The Uses of Convention in Tudor Polemical Literature, 1528-1563’. This was completed with the assistance of an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences postgraduate scholarship award (Sept 2007 - Mar 2010).
Her most recent publication is ‘Burning Books and Burning Martyrs in The Examinations of Anne Askew’, in Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature, 1350-1680, ed. by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and John Flood (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010), pp. 100-112. Forthcoming publications include ‘Polemical Peans: Constructing the Queen in Marian Literature, 1553-1558’, in Tudor Symposium vol. 6, ed. by Zsolt Almasi (2011), and ‘Masochist or Machiavel? Reading Harley Quinn in Canon and Fanon’, in the ‘Fan Fiction and Sexualities’ special issue of The Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures (spring 2012).
Since 2007 she has taught on the senior freshman course ‘Sixteenth-Century Identity’ (including occasional lecturing) and since 2009 she has also taught on the junior freshman course ‘The Gods and Literature’. In 2011 she taught seminars on juvenile delinquency films of the 1950s and superhero comics for the Mphil in Popular Literature.
Her research interests include Tudor and medieval drama (interludes, morality plays and mystery plays); polemical prose and poetry of the early Reformation and Marian counter-Reformation; controversialist writings; martyrologies; John Bale; William Tyndale; John Foxe; Miles Hogarde. She also engages in research on gender and sexuality in cyber culture, focussing on internet communities and ‘fan fiction’.
Email: roddyke@tcd.ie