Undergraduate Fellow
Tiana Milacic is interested in Shakespeare, British Romanticism, Elizabethan rhetoric, and Early Modern book history & print culture. She has spent a year as an undergraduate research assistant for the John Galt project – an endeavor which began during the 2023 Jackman Scholars-in-Residence program. She plans to pursue graduate studies in Early Modern literature, focusing on Shakespeare and manuscript studies.
Fellowship Project: The Forgotten Function of Female Printers in the Restoration Literary Underground
In “Is There Room for Judith Shakespeare and Her Brother Too?” Erin A. McCarthy asserts that over the “past decade,” 10,398 studies, or “49.39 percent of all works addressing the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries” have focused on William Shakespeare’s works, while the “top ten is rounded out with nine more familiar male names” (McCarthy 35). Early Modern female authors occupy a marginal percentage of literary scholarship. This percentage further decreases when considering Early Modern female printers, publishers, and booksellers. My project will examine the essential role of female printers in the Restoration literary underground, to not only expand the breadth of scholarship on Early Modern women, but also to highlight how they sustained the literary underground, demonstrating their influence and lasting impression on underground book production.