Emily Hay

Subject: Scottish Literature

HEI: University of Glasgow

School: School of Critical Studies

Supervisors: Dr Theo Van Heijnsbergen, Professor Rhona Brown, Professor Steven Reid

Discipline+Catalyst: Literature; History; Theology, Divinity & Religions

Knowledge Exchange Hub: Heritage

Keywords: Reformation, Scottish culture, women’s writing, feminism, queenship

About Emily’s Research:

My doctoral research evaluates the cultural image of Mary Queen of Scots as presented in her own writing: her self-portrayal in poetry and correspondence from 1567-1587. It also contrasts this self-fashioning against the images of Mary portrayed by others in published propaganda both for and against her in Britain in the same period. My analysis recentres the narrative of Mary in her own words and reveals, for the first time, the extent to which her enduring public image is based on her own agency as an author, and how much was outwardly projected onto her.