Christine Jacob

During my master's degree at the University of Oxford, I focused on early modern literature and developed skills in palaeography, textual editing, and archival research. My dissertation examined the rhetorical uses of a melancholic pose and the therapeutic potentials of poetry in the manuscripts of two late seventeenth-century women writers. As a PhD student at the University of Toronto and a recipient of the Canada Graduate Scholarship, I plan to explore further the relationship between poetry and medicine in early modern literature, the history of poetry therapy, and the mercurial genre of lyric.