Dr Sharon Young
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Course Leader for MA English and MA Cultural Studies and Admissions Tutor
English Media and Culture
email: s.young@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 542428
Dr Sharon Young is a Fellow of the HEA and her teaching interests include, Renaissance, Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, women's writing, and manuscript culture and book history.
Sharon has published on female poets and the critical debates of the early eighteenth century, Mary Leapor, social media as a public sphere. She is the course leader for MA English and MA Cultural Studies.
Qualifications
- BA Hons French and German, University of Hull
- BA Hons English Literary Studies, University of Worcester
- PhD in English Literature, University of Worcester
Teaching & Research
Teaching
Sharon teaches across a range of modules, primarily focusing on the early modern period, including Renaissance drama, religious and political poetry, Restoration literature and early modern identities. She also teaches modules covering book history and editing early modern texts, war and conflict in literature, and literary theory.
Research
Sharon's PhD research focused on the country house in English women's poetry, 1650-1750. Her broader research interests include women's writing, manuscript culture, and early modern understanding of the body. She is the lead for the Medical Humanities Research Group.
Professional Bodies
Sharon is a member of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and the Renaissance Society.
Publications
Young, S. (2015) Visiting the Country House: Generic Innovation in Mary Leapors Crumble-Hall. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 34.1
Young, S. (2014) "The Critick and the Writer of Fables": Anne Finch and the Critical Debates, 1690-1720. Digital Defoe, 6.1
External Responsibilities
Between 2011 and January 2018 Sharon was executive secretary of The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Prior to that she was the postgraduate representative on the same committee.