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