Dr Lucy Razzall
- Role
- Researcher
Collections Researcher
About
Lucy specialises in the history of material culture and material texts. She is especially interested in material histories in and of the archive, histories of making, and environmental histories in the records of the state.
Research activity
Lucy previously held teaching and research positions at the University of Cambridge, UCL, and Queen Mary University of London. She has a PhD in early modern English Literature from the University of Cambridge.
After finishing her PhD, Lucy held a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library, California.
Lucy is Secretary of the Places, Plants, and People Archive Network.
Publications
Boxes and Books in Early Modern England: Materiality, Metaphor, Containment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
‘Reliquary’, in Boxes: A Field Guide, ed. Susanne Bauer et al (Manchester: Mattering Press, 2020), pp. 597-606
‘Words in a Nutshell: Miniaturizing Text in Early Modern England’, in Miniature Books: The Format and Function of Tiny Religious Text, ed. Kristina Myrvold and Dorina Parminter (Sheffield: Equinox, 2019), pp. 45-54
‘‘‘Like to a title leafe”: Face, Surface, and Material Text in Early Modern England’, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 8 (2017)
‘“Curious statues so cunningly contrived”: Plato’s Silenus, Inwardness, and Inbetweenness’, in The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement Between Worlds, ed. Paul Basu (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), pp. 232-49
‘Non intus ut extra: The Emblematic Silenus in Early Modern Literature’, Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, 22 (2016), 107-122
‘”A good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master-spirit”: Recollecting Relics in Post-Reformation English Writing’, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 2 (2010)