Anna LEWTON-BRAIN
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).
Ph.D., McGill University (exp. 2016)
M.A., Dalhousie University, 2009
B.A., University of King’s College, 2007
Donne, Herbert, Campion, Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare; Renaissance thought, poetics, music, and culture; seventeenth-century song; Renaissance Neoplatonism; early modern forms of conversion.