Sabrina Hogan

I am a DPhil student working on Renaissance French poetry, exploring states of attention in a devotional context and across genres (women’s devotional poetry, creation / natural philosophical poetry and love poetry). I read for my undergraduate and MPhil degrees at the University of Cambridge, before moving to France to work as a teacher for three years. My thesis began with the poetry of sixteenth-century Lyonnais poet Maurice Scève, whom I have loved and worked on since I was an undergraduate; my corpus has since expanded to encompass three further poets.

Papers VII and X

Renaissance poetry (French and English), especially love poetry and devotional poetry

Early modern dreams

Early modern curiosity

Attention studies

Consolatory literature

Early modern philosophy (especially 16th and 17thc)

I also run the French poetry group and the ‘Painters as poets’ reading group at Christ Church to which all readers (students and staff alike) are very welcome.