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📖 ABOUT
Harry Matthews is a doctoral researcher in English Literature at the University of Reading. His research focused on Richard Barnfield and Early Modern poetic form, examining questions of authorship, identity, and symbolic structure within Renaissance literature.
He previously undertook doctoral research at the Universities of Northampton and Loughborough. Subsequently, he presented his research paper at the Richard Barnfield Conference at Sapienza University, Rome (2023).
Alongside his academic work, and prior to it, he maintained an erstwhile artistic practice under Harry Art & Harry Art Publishing, exhibiting watercolour and oil paintings across the UK.
🎓 RESEARCH
Doctoral Researcher in English Literature University of Reading (February 2025 – Present)
Research Focus:
Richard Barnfield
Early Modern Poetry
Poetics and Identity
Pastoral Ecology
Previous Doctoral Research:
University of Northampton (March. 2021–March 2022): Early English Pastoral Poetry, Barnfield’s Poetry and Influences (Watson, Fraunce, et al.), Classical Reception in 1590s English Renaissance Pastoral Poetry.
University of Loughborough (Oct. 2022- Febr. 2024): Pastoral Poetry, Richard Barnfield’s Poetry, Classical Reception in Barnfield’s Poetry, Renaissance conceptions of Masculine Love in Barnfield’s Poetical Lamentations, the reciprocal relationship between Richard Barnfield and William Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
