Anna LEWTON-BRAIN

Anna LEWTON-BRAIN
Contact Information
Email address: 
anna.lewton-brain [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Anna Lewton-Brain is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at McGill University. Her dissertation, entitled “Metaphysical Music: Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Seventeenth-Century Song” examines the intersections of music and the Metaphysical poets in Renaissance English literary culture. Her research is supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) fellowship and the Early Modern Conversions Project (earlymodernconversions.com).

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., McGill University (exp. 2016)
M.A., Dalhousie University, 2009
B.A., University of King’s College, 2007

Current research: 

Donne, Herbert, Campion, Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare; Renaissance thought, poetics, music, and culture; seventeenth-century song; Renaissance Neoplatonism; early modern forms of conversion.

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