Contact details
- Name:
- Mrs Vanessa Lim
- Qualifications:
- MA in Intellectual History, and a BSc in Politics and Philosophy
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Early Career Research Fellow
- Fellowship term:
- 01-Oct-2020 to 01-Mar-2022
- Institute:
- Institute of English Studies
- Email address:
- vanessa.lim@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://ies.sas.ac.uk/people/vanessa-lim
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- English Literature
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Vanessa Lim is a literary and intellectual historian of early modern England, with a special interest in the reception and use of classical rhetoric in the Renaissance.
She holds a doctorate in History and English from Queen Mary University of London, an MA in Intellectual History, and a BSc in Politics and Philosophy. At the Institute of English Studies, Vanessa will complete work on her first monograph, Deliberative Shakespeare, and pursue interrelated research on the motif of self-speech in late Elizabethan prose fiction. Her research has been published in the Review of English Studies and Notes & Queries.