Dr Angus Vine

Associate Professor

English Studies University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Dr Angus Vine

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About me

MA (Hons), MPhil, PhD (Cantab); PGCertHE (Sussex); FSA, FRHistS

I took my BA, MA, MPhil and PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, and I also hold a PGCertHE from the University of Sussex. I was Research Associate on The Oxford Francis Project at the University of Cambridge (2005-2008), Senior Research Research Associate on the Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Project at the University of Cambridge (2008-2009), and Preceptor and Director of Studies in English at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (2008-2009). From 2009-2011, I was lecturer in early modern literature at the University of Sussex. I joined the University of Stirling in October 2011. I have held a visiting fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2010), have been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2012, and in 2019 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2023, I was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

My research focuses on early modern cultural and intellectual history. Areas of expertise include book history, material culture, the history of science, and editing. Particular areas of interest include the works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), manuscript culture, mercantile culture, and antiquarianism. I also have interests in the history of education (early modern to the present day), humanism, Shakespeare studies, the history and practice of note-taking, and the organization of knowledge.

My first monograph, In Defiance of Time: Antiquarian Writing in Early Modern England (OUP; 2010), was a study of the antiquarian imagination in early modern Britain. My second book was Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge (OUP; 2019). My most recent book is the forthcoming Early Modern Merchants and Their Books (OUP).

I have edited two collections of essays - (with Katie Halsey), Shakespeare and Authority: Citations, Conceptions and Constructions (Palgrave Macmillan; 2018); and (with Abigail Shinn), The Copious Text: Encyclopaedic Books in Early Modern England (2014; special issue of Renaissance Studies). I have also published numerous essays and articles on various aspects of early modern culture, including chorography, epigraphy, church notes, the works of the poet Michael Drayton (1563-1631), Scottish Neo-Latin poetry, myth and legend, etymology, pyramidography, early modern theories of the winds, and digital archives and editions.

I am the chair of the British Academy-funded Oxford Francis Bacon Project (https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/academy-research-projects-francis-bacon-project/), and also sit on the editorial board and am a contributing editor for The Oxford Francis Bacon (http://www.oxfordfrancisbacon.com/). I also sit on the editorial board and am a volume editor of The Oxford Traherne (https://oxfordtraherne.org/). I also sat on the advisory boards of the Horizon 2020 funded ATRA - The Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism project (https://www.unive.it/pag/33168), and the AHRC funded MPESE - Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England project (https://mpese.ac.uk/).

In 2013-2015, I held a British Academy/Leverhulme SRG for the project 'Manuscripts, Miscellanies and the Organization of Knowledge', and in 2010 I held a short-term fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the project 'Manuscripts, Merchants and Miscellanea' (https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Angus_Vine). I was also co-investigator on the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) funded project 'Antiquarianism in 17th-Century England' (PI: Professor Michiyo Takano). In 2014, I chaired the organizing committee of the British Shakespeare Association (BSA) Conference held at the University of Stirling (part of the 'Shakespeare at 450' project at Stirling) (http://www.shakespeare.stir.ac.uk/).

In 2020, I was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for my new research project 'Mercantile Humanism: Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Britain' (https://www.stir.ac.uk/news/2020/09/new-study-on-the-literary-and-cultural-lives-of-merchants-in-early-modern-britain/). This project ran from 2021 to 2022, and involved collaborations with London Metropolitan Archives, the Guildhall Library (London), and Edward's Boys. The major output of the project is my forthcoming book Early Modern Merchants and Their Books.

Award

British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship

I have been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2020/21 for the project 'Mercantile Humanism: Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Britain'.

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)
I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in 2019 in recognition of my original contribution to historical scholarship.

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA)
In 2023, I was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (founded in 1707). Fellowships are awarded in recognition of achievements in a particular field of antiquarian activity ( i.e. ‘excelling in the knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries', as specified in the Society's Charter).

Other Academic Activities

Short-Term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library

Visiting Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC

Professional qualification

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
I was made Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2012 (recognition number 49071).

University Contribution

Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, RATE Awards 2017
I was the winner of the Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (RATE) Awards 2017.

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