Dr. Lieke Stelling

Associate Professor
English
Early Modern Literature
+31 30 253 1950
l.j.stelling@uu.nl

Highlighted publications

Stelling, L. J. (2019). Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569408
Stelling, L. J., Hendrix, H. A., & Richardson, T. (Eds.) (2012). The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature. (Intersections; Vol. 23). Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/15701
Stelling, L. J. (2017). Recent Studies in Religious Conversion. English Literary Renaissance, 47(1), 164-192. https://doi.org/10.1086/692109

Publications

2024

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. (Accepted/In press). ‘Here’s a fellow frights English out of his wits’: Playing with humour in The Merry Wives of Windsor. In E. Whipday (Ed.), Shakespeare/Play: Contemporary Readings in Playing, Playmaking and Performance (pp. 329-345). Bloomsbury.

2022

Scholarly publications

Klarenaar, M., Van Ooien, A.-L., van der Toorn, J., Boes, M., Lakens, D., Stelling, L., Simons, M., Funk, M., van Goch, M., Veldhuizen, M., & Tetteroo, D. (2022). Towards a representation of unheard and unseen individuals in the hospital, workplace, and neighborhood (Centre for Unusual Collaborations).
Stelling, L. (2022). Comic Spenser: Faith, folly, and The Faerie Queene: by Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020, 256 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-5261-3111-9. English Studies, 103(1), 173-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2021.1928906
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/416153/Comic_Spenser_Faith_folly_and_The_Faerie_Queene.pdf?sequence=1

2021

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. (2021). The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England ed. by Thomas Fulton and Kristen Poole (review). Religion & Literature, 53(1), 210-212. https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0019
Stelling, L. J. (2021). ‘By God’s Arse’ Genre, Humour and Religion in William Wager’s Moral Interludes. In D. Derrin, & H. Burrows (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology (1 ed., pp. 325-339). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56646-3_17
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420199/Stelling2020_Chapter_ByGodSArseGenreHumourAndReligi.pdf?sequence=1

2020

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. J. (2020). The Merchant of Venice: Learning and Teaching Resources. In S. Hatchuel, N. Vienne-Guerrin, & A. Hiscock (Eds.), The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader (1 ed., pp. 197-225). (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides). Bloomsbury.

2019

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. J. (2019). Review of Shakespearean Melancholy: Philosophy, Form and the Transformation of Comedy / J.F. Bernard. Early Modern Culture, 14(1), 197-199. Article 17.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/387564/Shakespearean_Melancholy_Philosophy_Form_and_the_Transformation.pdf?sequence=1
Stelling, L. J. (2019). Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569408

Popularising publications

Stelling, L. J. (2019). Wheeling Strangers of Here and Everywhere. Present Issues of Integration and the Early Modern Crisis of Conversion. Paper presented at PostFaces – A Symposium: Shakespeare’s World and Present Challenges, Porto, Portugal. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02268979/document

2018

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. J. (2018). 'Leaving their Humours to the Word Mongers of Mallice': Mocking Polemic in Tarltons Newes Out of Purgatorie (1590) and Two Contemporary Responses. Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 154, 140-154.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/373587/Stelling_Leaving_Their_Humours_to_the_Word_Mongers_of_Malice_2018.pdf?sequence=1

Popularising publications

Stelling, L. J. (Author). (2018). De dood als ultieme komedie. Web publication/site, NieuwWij.nl. https://www.nieuwwij.nl/opinie/dood-heerlijk-onderwerp-voor-humor/
Stelling, L. J. (Author). (2018). Een Elizabethaanse Catch-22. Web publication/site, NieuwWij.nl. https://www.nieuwwij.nl/opinie/een-elizabethaanse-catch-22/
Stelling, L. J. (Author). (2018). Religieuze humor: slappe hap?. Web publication/site, NieuwWij.nl. https://www.nieuwwij.nl/opinie/religieuze-humor-slappe-hap/
Stelling, L. J. (Author). (2018). Het rampzalige wolkje van Milton. Web publication/site, NieuwWij.nl. https://www.nieuwwij.nl/opinie/het-rampzalige-wolkje-van-milton/
Stelling, L. J. (Author). (2018). How do you make God laugh?. Web publication/site, NieuwWij.nl. https://www.nieuwwij.nl/opinie/how-do-you-make-god-laugh/

Other output

Stelling, L. J. (Author). (2018). Maakte Shakespeare grappen over religie?. Web publication/site, NieuwWij.nl. https://www.nieuwwij.nl/opinie/maakte-shakespeare-grappen-over-religie/

2017

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. J. (2017). Recent Studies in Religious Conversion. English Literary Renaissance, 47(1), 164-192. https://doi.org/10.1086/692109

2016

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. J. (2016). Review of Jeffrey S. Shoulson: Fictions of Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England (2013). Religion & Literature, 48(2), 216-218.
Stelling, L. J. (2016). 'For Christian Shame': Othello's Fall and the Early Modern Conversion Play. Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 25(1), 19-31. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/670665

2015

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. J. (2015). Theatrale zelfmoord: De eigenhandige dood op het Nederlands toneel 1670-1780 door Anna de Haas. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde, 131(3).

2013

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. J. (2013). "Conversion". In K. Pollmann, & W. Otten (Eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (pp. 831). Oxford University Press.

2012

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. J. (2012). ‘This Earthly Stage:’ World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by B. Hirsch and C. Wortham. European Medieval Drama (print), 16, 134-139.
Stelling, L. J., & Richardson, T. (2012). Introduction. In L. Stelling, H. Hendrix, & T. Richardson (Eds.), The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature (Vol. 23, pp. 1-17). (Intersections; Vol. 23). Brill.
Stelling, L. J. (2012). 'Thy Very Essence is Mutability', Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama. In L. Stelling, H. Hendrix, & T. Richardson (Eds.), The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama (Vol. 23, pp. 59-83). (Intersections; Vol. 23). Brill.
Stelling, L. J., Hendrix, H. A., & Richardson, T. (Eds.) (2012). The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature. (Intersections; Vol. 23). Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/15701

2009

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. J. (2009). 'T is not in man/ To change or alter me;' Bekering, sekse en gender in Philip Massingers The Renegado (1624) en William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1596–7). Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 12(1), 31-42.

Professional publications

Stelling, L. J. (2009). “ Bekeringskomedie als moderne integratietragedie.” Review of: De Koopman van Venetië. By William Shakespeare. Dir. Theu Boermans. De Theatercompagnie, Amsterdam. 12 Nov. 2008. Documenta, 27(1), 76-80.
Stelling, L. J. (2009). Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485 – 1660 by Paul Whitfield White. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 122, 256-257.
Stelling, L. J. (2009). Mahomet and his Heaven by William Percy by Matthew Dimmock. Folio, 16(1), 53-55.

2008

Scholarly publications

Stelling, L. J. (2008). Henry V: Professionals, Pundits, and 'Imaginary Puissance.'. Folio, 15(1), 5-26.

Professional publications

Stelling, L. J. (2008). Staging Islam in England: Drama and Culture 1640–1685 by Matthew Birchwood. Folio, 15(1), 41-44.

Popularising publications

Stelling, L. J. (2008). Cultural Transfer? In A. H. van Baal (Ed.), Cultural Transfer: Russia and Europe Since 1650 (pp. 62-67). Huizinga Instituut / Nederlands Instituut Sint-Petersburg.

2007

Professional publications

Stelling, L. J. (2007). How to Read a Shakespeare Play by David Bevington. Folio, 14(1), 47-49.
Stelling, L. J. (2007). De Onsterfelijke Nederlandse Hamlet. Review of Jan Willem Mathijssen, The Breach and the Observance: Theatre Retranslation as a Strategy of Artistic Differentiation, with Special Reference to Retranslations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1777–2001). Filter, 14(4), 76-78.
Stelling, L. J. (2007). Shakespeare Yearbook, ed. Ton Hoenselaars and Holger Klein: Shakespeare and the Low Countries. Folio, 14(2), 32-36.

2006

Professional publications

Stelling, L. J. (2006). Shakespeare and the Language of Translation, ed. Ton Hoenselaars. Documenta, 24(1), 72-76.
Stelling, L. J. (2006). Comic Book Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, edited, with a modern English translation, and illustrated by Simon Greaves. Folio, 13(2), 40-44.
Stelling, L. J. (2006). “ Jan Jonk, Shakespeare-vertaler.” Review of: Jan Jonk, Vluchtig als een Droom: Fragmenten uit de Volledige Werken van William Shakespeare, vertaling Jan Jonk. Documenta, 24(3-4), 245-247.

2004

Professional publications

Stelling, L. J. (2004). Shakespeare: an Oxford Guide, ed. Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin. Folio, 11(1), 52-54.

2003

Professional publications

Stelling, L. J. (2003). Shakespeare and Scandinavia: A Collection of Nordic Studies, ed. Gunnar Sorelius. Folio, 10(2), 34-36.