Doctor (Peg) M A Katritzky
Nationality: United Kingdom
Year: 1996
Subject Area: Arts and Humanities
Website: Visit (opens in a new window)My Wingate Scholarship marks a turning point in my academic career. It financed two years of intensive interdisciplinary research into the rich, attractive, and largely previously unpublished theatrical illustrations of thousands of early modern German friendship albums in libraries and archives all over Europe, and enabled me to make many valuable international scholarly connections.
I have no doubt that my Wingate Scholarship, and the work it enabled me to carry out, played a crucial role in my appointment, in 2001, as Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies in the Department of English (Faculty of Arts) of The Open University, Milton Keynes, a post that achieved permanent status in 2005. The Open University provides me with the ideal post in which to continue to pursue and publish this work, including, most recently, two single-author monographs:
1. The Art of commedia: a study in the commedia dell'arte 1560-1620 with special reference to the visual records (Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2006, 626 pages, 340 plates)
2. Women, medicine and theatre 1500-1750: literary mountebanks and performing quacks (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, 368 pages, 60 plates).
I continue to draw on my Wingate research for my current work, including a project on the sixteenth and seventeenth century theatrical writings of several Swiss and Austrian physicians which has attracted generous external funding from the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Once again, my heartfelt thanks to everyone at the Wingate Foundation for giving me this opportunity and for supporting me in it, and all good wishes for your project -and for your next 20 years!