Sebastiaan Verweij

In September 2004, Sebastiaan moved from Amsterdam to Glasgow to start work on his Ph.D. Prior to that he studied English literature at the Free University of Amsterdam, and wrote a dissertation on William Fowler’s The Tarantula of Love. His PhD research is kindly funded by the AHRC, Glasgow University, and the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund.

His research focuses on Early Modern Scotland, with a thesis entitled ‘“The Inlegebill scribling of my Imprompt pen”: Production and Circulation of Literary Manuscripts in Jacobean Scotland, 1570-1625’.

Sebastiaan tutors on the Level 2 Scottish Literature degree course:, and lectures and tutors on 'Alternative Renaissances', an honours course. From October 2004 to August 2006 Sebastiaan was involved in eSharp, Glasgow University's student-led interdisciplinary postgraduate journal, first as editor and then as General Editor.

Conference papers:

• July 2005, ‘The Manuscripts of William Fowler’, 2005 Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Scottish Language & Literature, Brock University, Canada
• February 2006, ‘Production and Circulation of Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern Scotland’, GCMRS Graduate Symposium 2006, Glasgow University
• February 2007, ‘The Manuscript(s) of Margaret Robertson: Poetry and Music in Early Seventeenth-Century Scotland’, Medieval Scottish Studies Seminar Series, Glasgow University

Publications:

• with Fiona Barclay, ‘eSharp’, in Enhancing Student Employability, ed. by Debra Macfarlane-Dick and Archie Roy (Gloucester: Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, 2006), pp. 65-69.
• ‘William Fowler’, in The Literary Encyclopedia, first published 16 Aug. 2005, The Literary Dictionary Company.
• Six articles [on ‘The Murning Maiden’; ‘Casket sonnets’, Mary, Queen of Scots; ‘An Epitaphe on Sir Philip Sidney’ and ‘Sonnets on Ticho Brahe’, James VI] for Pre-1600 British Poetry, ed. by Michelle Sauer (New York: Facts On File, forthcoming 2007)
• ‘The Manuscripts of William Fowler: A Revaluation of The Tarantula of Love, A Sonnet Sequence, and Of Death’, Scottish Studies Review 8-2 (forthcoming 2007).