Chelsea Reutcke | PostDoctoral Fellow
Chelsea Reutcke
PostDoctoral Fellow
CTIHB 121
About
Dr Chelsea Reutcke is the Gordon B. Hinckley Postdoctoral Fellow in British Studies in the Department of History. She teaches courses on sixteenth and seventeenth-century Britain and serves as the assistant editor for the Journal of British Studies. Her main fields of interest are post-Reformation Catholicism, book history, and the Restoration. She also works in digital humanities and memory studies.
Education
- PhD in Reformation Studies, Univeristy of St. Andrews (2020)
- Thesis: "Catholic print networks in Restoration England, 1660-1688," supervised by Dr. Jacquline Rose.
- MLitt with Distinction in Early Modern History, The University of St. Andrews (2014)
- Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in History, Wesleyan University (2012)
Research Focus
Broadly speaking, my research focuses on the intersection of religion, print culture, and politics in early modern Britain. Also drawing on legal, spatial, and memory studies, I investigate how clandestine book markets operated around censorship laws and the cross-confessional nature of Catholic print in the late seventeenth century. My work highlights non-elite printers, booksellers, and publishers and brings new perspectives to contentious and overlooked figures including Queen Catherine of Braganza and James VII & II. I am currently converting my doctoral thesis into a monograph and exploring the dynamics of Catholic print in Scotland.
Key Publications
“A coordinated Catholic press: The editing and dispersal of Nicholas Sander’s Schismatis Anglicani, 1580-c.1600.” In Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba and Magdalena Komorowska (eds.), Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book. Agents – Networks – Responses (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming April 2024).
“REVIEW: Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642–1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty. By Eilish Gregory,” Journal of Church and State 64, issue 3 (2022): 532–534.
“Royal Patronage of Illicit Print: Catherine of Braganza’s ties to late seventeenth-century Catholic printing in London.” In Jamie Cumby, Nina Lamal, and Helmer Helmers (eds.), Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) (Leiden: Brill, 2021): 239–256.
“‘Very knaves besides’: Catholic print and the enforcers of the 1662 Licensing Act in Restoration England.” In Rosamond McKitterick, Charlotte Methuen, and Andrew Spicer (eds.), Studies in Church History: The Church and the Law, 56 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020): 288-305.
Teaching
HIST 3130-001 Tudor-Stuart Britain
HIST 4250-001 Religion & Identity in Early Modern Britain
Britain & the Book
Early Modern European History
Awards
Kenneth Spencer Research Library Travel Award, University of Kansas 2022
Grant, Scottish Catholic Historical Association 2021
St Leonard’s Associateship, 12 months, University of St Andrews 2020–2021
Grant, Royal Historical Society 2020
Grant, Catholic Record Society 2020
Grant, Russell Trust, St Andrews 2019
Theodora Bosanquet Bursary, Funds for Women Graduates 2018
Minor Grant, Bibliographical Society 2018
St Leonard’s Scholarship, 3 years, University of St Andrews 2016–2019