Dr Georgina Wilson

Georgina Wilson is a College Teaching Associate in English. 

Academic interests

Georgina Wilson's specialism is early modern literature, and she is particularly interested in the real and imagined history of the book. She is writing a monograph entitled Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature which is about how paper – as both a trope or metaphor, and a physical material – shapes literature. Georgina has published on how paper changes what we mean by ‘surface reading’, the ways in which early modern readers used their books, Michel Serres and ‘folded time’, and the paper-maker John Spilman. She is also co-editing a special issue of Journal of Early Modern Studies entitled ‘The Politics of Book History: Then And Now’.

Alongside her academic publications, Georgina writes for the Times Literary Supplement. At Cambridge, she teaches Literature 1500-1700, Shakespeare, Material Renaissance, Tragedy, and Practical Criticism, and she is interested in the overlaps between critical writing, creative writing, and craft.

Degrees obtained

• BA, Oxford.
• MA, York.
• PhD, Oxford.