Rate My Professor Sue Wiseman

Professor Wiseman has authored and edited numerous influential works in her field. Key books include Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance 1550-1700 (2014), Conspiracy and Virtue: Women, Writing, and Politics in Seventeenth Century England (2006), Drama and Politics in the English Civil War (1998), Aphra Behn (1996), and editorships such as Early Modern Women and the Poem (2013), Reading the Early Modern Dream: The Terrors of the Night (2007), and Women's Political Writings 1610-1725 (2007). Selected recent publications feature articles like 'Educating Shrews' (2023), 'Making ‘Gypsies’ in the English Reformation? Laws, words and texts (1530-1621)' (2022), 'Labour’s loves? Isabella Whitney, Leonard Wheatcroft and the love miscellany' (2019), and 'The Maid of Haddon: event, text and women in Derbyshire literate culture' (2018). She runs the London Renaissance Seminar and is Deputy Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Wiseman has extensive supervisory experience, having guided fifteen PhD students within Birkbeck, with many completing theses on topics including love elegy, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama and theatre, women's poetry of the Renaissance and seventeenth century, Civil War writing, and the psalms, thereby shaping the next generation of scholars in early modern literature.