Dr Sue Doran
Academic Background
Susan Doran studied for a BA in Modern History at St Anne's College Oxford and a PhD at University College, London. She was a Reader in Early Modern History at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, before joining Christ Church as a Lecturer in 2002 and St Benet's Hall as a non-Stipendiary Fellow a little later. She was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College in 2008 and Director of Studies at Regent’s Park College in 2009. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Undergraduate Teaching
Papers covering early-modern Britain and Europe (c1400-1700). Disciplines. Government, Politics and Society in England 1547-58.
Postgraduate Teaching
Politics and religion in the reign of Elizabeth I.
Research Interests
Elizabethan political and religious history, including the succession question; the royal image; foreign policy; court politics.
Selected Publications
- England and Europe 1485-1603 (Longman, 1996).
- Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I (Routledge, 1996).
- 'Why did Elizabeth not marry?' in Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana edited by Julia M.Walker (Duke University Press, 1998), pp.30-59.
- England and Europe in the Sixteenth Century (Palgrave, 1999).
- 'Revenge her Foul and Most Unnatural Murder? The Impact of Mary Stewart's Execution on Anglo-Scottish Relations', History 85 (2000), pp.589-612.
- 'Elizabeth I's Religion: The Evidence of her Letters', Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51 (2000), pp. 699-720.
- Princes Pastors and People: The Church and Religion in England 1529-1689 co-authored with Christopher Durston (Routledge, 2003).
- Elizabeth I. British Library Historic Lives Series (St Martin's Press, 2003).
- Edited with Thomas S. Freeman The Myth of Elizabeth I co-edited (Palgrave, 2003).
- Elizabeth: The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum (Random House/ Chatto and Windus, 2003). Editor and contributor.
- 'Three Late-Elizabethan Succession Tracts' in The Struggle for the Succession in Late Elizabethan England: Politics, Polemics and Cultural Representations edited by Jean-Christophe Mayer (University Paul-Valery, Montpellier, 2004), pp.91-117.
- 'The Politics of Renaissance Europe' in Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe edited by Paul Hammond and Andrew Hadfield. (Arden Press, 2004), pp. 21-52.
- Edited with Glenn Richardson Tudor England and Its Neighbours (Palgrave, 2005).
- 'James VI and the Succession' in James VI and I: Ideas, Authority and Government edited by Ralph Houlbrooke (Ashgate, 2006).
- Mary Queen of Scots: An Illustrated Life (British Library, 2007).
- 'Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici' in Contending Kingdoms: England and France, 1430-1700 edited by Glenn Richardson, (Ashgate, 2008). pp.117-132.
- Tudor Chronicles (Quercus, 2009).
- Edited with Thomas S. Freeman The Tudors and Stuarts on Film (Palgrave, 2009).
- The catalogue for the British Library's exhibition on Henry VIIII (BL, 2009).
- 'Elizabeth I: An Old Testament Queen' in Rethinking Tudor Queenship: Mary and Elizabeth edited by Anna Whitelock and Alice Hunt (Palgrave, 2010).
- Edited with Norman Jones The Elizabethan World (Routledge, 2010).
- 'Elizabeth I and her favourites: the case of Sir Walter Ralegh' in Explorations in Renaissance History edited by Donald Stump et al. (University of Arizona, 2011).
- Edited with Thomas S. Freeman Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives (Palgrave, 2011).
Work in Progress
- Edited with Paulina Kewes, The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England.
- Elizabeth I and her Circle (OUP).
Links
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College:
History
History and Economics
History and English
History and Modern Languages
History and Politics
See also Faculty of History website.
