Maria Pace Aquilina

Maria Pace Aquilina is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Project MERLIT at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is currently researching how dramas of Social Rise, Achievement and Merit are negotiated and shaped during the Restoration era in England. Maria holds a PhD in Tudor and Renaissance Literature from the University of Sheffield focusing on the recovery of the authorial voice of sixteenth-century women writers.  Her area of expertise includes, but is not limited, to women’s writing of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, religious translations, memoirs, secular poetry, maternal genre and paratextual techniques.

Maria has published the following works:

• Women Writers in Tudor England: Male Occluded Female Agency and the Recovery of Authorial Voice.
• Isabella Whitney: A Reconsideration of the Female Author. ~‘Edited Collection,’ The University of Glasgow.