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Dr Chris Stamatakis
Email: c.stamatakis@ucl.ac.uk
External phone: 020 7679 7343
Internal phone: 37343
Education and Experience
Chris Stamatakis received a B.A. in 2004, an M.St. the following year
(English Literature, 1550-1780), and in 2008 was awarded a D.Phil. (‘Sir
Thomas Wyatt and Early Tudor Literary Practice’), all from Lincoln
College, Oxford. From 2009 to 2011, he held a Junior Research Fellowship
at Lincoln College and was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
for a project entitled ‘Denizened Wit: Tudor Reinventions of Italian
Verse’. During this time, he also carried out research at the Huntington
Library in San Marino, California, as a visiting fellow, before joining
the Department of English Language and Literature at UCL as a Teaching
Fellow in 2011.
Research
Chris’s principal research interests lie in early modern and late
medieval literature in English, especially with an eye to the classical
and continental influences on this writing as well as its material
transmission and reception. Chris’s first book, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting: Turning the Word,
brought these concerns together by examining the poetry of Sir Thomas
Wyatt, both in terms of its departures from his continental sources, and
also its material afterlife, as it was circulated, copied, modified,
and answered or parodied. Developing this work on the literary,
cultural, and intellectual contexts which shaped and defined
sixteenth-century poetry, Chris is currently working on a book that
examines the influence of Italian literature on English vernacular
poetics and poetic theory in the sixteenth century, especially in the
writings of the self-styled ‘heirs of Petrarch’ who emerged from the
Inns of Court in the middle decades of the century. In other projects,
he continues to work on the relation between poetry and rhetoric; ideas
of textual memory in the early modern period; the transmission of
manuscript verse in court circles; and the gathering of ‘scattered
rhymes’ in print miscellanies. As part of his ongoing interest in the
‘history of the book’, editing, and textual scholarship, he is also
completing a digital edition of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poems which allows
users to juxtapose and compare variant manuscript versions of the 'same'
text, and so restore some of the complexity of these poems that often
gets written out in modern editions. [Editions]
Books
Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting: ‘Turning the Word’, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012).
‘Denizened Wit’: Tudor Reinventions of Italian Verse, 1530-1580 (forthcoming, 2013).
Editions
TEI digital edition of The Manuscript Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt (Oxford Text Archive, forthcoming 2012).
Chapters and Articles
‘The Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt’, The Literary Encyclopedia.
‘Memory and the Figure of the Poet: Elegies on Sir Thomas Wyatt’ (under consideration).
‘“Restles rest”: Sleep and Textual Memory in Early Tudor Poetry’, Medium Ævum Monographs series (under consideration, 2012).
‘A double spirit of teaching and of learning instantly: Tutoring the Bard’, Illuminatio (Spring, 2012)
Reviews
Chris has reviewed for The Journal of the Northern Renaissance and Fons Luminis, and has contributed reviews to Notes & Queries.
