Dr Katrina Marchant

Material, Literary and Cultural Historian. Dramaturg. Researcher. Creator.

I obtained my doctorate in early modern literature and culture from the University of Sussex in 2015. My thesis was titled 'Things ‘Necessary’ and ‘Unnecessary’: Trash and Trifles in Early Modern England’. It illustrates how the deployment of the terms trash and trifles in early modern England can be productively used to trace the shaping of the Protestant English commonwealth as a distinct, secure and valuable entity in an unstable and increasingly global post-Reformation world.

Researcher, dramaturg, lecturer, workshop leader and YouTube creator