Elizabeth Walters

Dr Lisa Walters is a Senior Lecturer in Women's Writing in the School of Communication and Arts within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Masters (Coursework) in Literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Bachelor of Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her distinguished career includes a postdoctoral research fellowship at Ghent University, Belgium, a visiting professorship at Université Catholique de Lille, France, and academic appointments in England, America, and Scotland. Between her studies, she worked in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, she serves as Deputy Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and has previously served on the Education Committee for Shakespeare North, a Jacobean replica theatre in England.

Lisa Walters' research centers on Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare, and Renaissance women writers in relation to science, philosophy, gender, sexuality, and political thought. Her major publications include the monograph Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2014; paperback 2017), which examines Cavendish's interventions in scientific and political discourses. She co-edited Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2022) with Brandie R. Siegfried, receiving a Co-Honorable Mention for the 2022 Collaborative Project Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. Other key works are her edition of The Blazing World and other Writings (Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 2025), co-editing the 'Restoration' section of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing (Palgrave, 2020-2025), and forthcoming titles Cavendish and Milton (Oxford University Press) and Cavendish's Philosophy of Literature (Routledge). Recent articles include 'The pleasure of utopia: objects of desire, Epicureanism and gender during the Renaissance from Thomas More to Milton' (2024) and 'Berkeley's gland tour into speculative fiction' (2023, parts 1 and 2). She was President of the International Margaret Cavendish Society, founded and manages the Margaret Cavendish: A Multidisciplinary Journal, and serves on the Editorial Board of ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. In 2016, she won a Teaching and Innovation Award from Liverpool Hope University, UK. Her contributions have profoundly shaped scholarship on early modern women's intellectual histories.

Professional Email: l.walters@uq.edu.au