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Dr Aidan Norrie is Lecturer in History and Literature and the Programme Leader of the BA (Hons) English and History Studies degree at the University Campus North Lincolnshire. They are the Managing Editor of The London Journal, an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, and the Chair of Series Editors for ‘Monarchy, History, and Culture’, which is published by Amsterdam University Press.
Dr Norrie has extensive teaching and administrative experience gained at universities in three different countries, a track record of securing competitive funding, and is passionate about expanding access to higher education. They are an interdisciplinary scholar of monarchy, gender, religion, and early modern England with broad research interests in royal authority across the globe, particularly female kingship. Aidan’s many publications reflect this diverse range of interests, and can be viewed on the Publications page.
Aidan’s primary research focus is Elizabeth I of England, and they study and contextualise the last Tudor monarch's reign and afterlife in a highly interdisciplinary fashion. Their monograph, Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule, provides a fresh reassessment of this vital component of Elizabethan royal iconography, showing how biblical typology functioned as a powerful religio-political tool for Elizabeth across her reign.
As a scholar of Elizabeth I and Elizabethan England, Aidan has published articles in journals including Renaissance Studies, Northern History, Shakespeare Bulletin, Notes and Queries, and the Royal Studies Journal. They are also interested in adaptations of Elizabeth I in popular culture, and have published essays on Elizabeth I’s gender in film and TV, and on depictions of the Elizabethan period in popular culture.
Reflecting their interests in gender and monarchy more globally, Aidan has published essays about female Māori chiefs in Aotearoa New Zealand, female pharaohs in ancient Egypt, and lesser-known royal women, such as Cecilia, Princess of Sweden and Margravine of Baden-Rodemachern.
As a literary historian, Aidan also works on early modern English literature, especially in the areas of women's writing and civic entertainments. Areas they have published in include child actors in Elizabethan civic pageantry, James Shirley’s The Cardinal, and drama by Elizabeth I. They are also increasingly working in the field of children’s literature, and look forward to the publication of their essays on reincarnation in the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe and on gender and adventure in Disney’s Atlantis films.
Aidan is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Professional Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi.
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