Dr Clio Doyle

BIOGRAPHY

Clio Doyle is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her work on early modern subjects is at the intersection of he Environmental Humanities and Classical Reception. She is interested in how early modern writers retell, interpret, and adapt classical stories about the beginning of agriculture to express contemporary concerns about race and human nature, to speculate about ecological change and imagine possible futures, and to justify the colonisation of supposedly pre-agricultural land all the way across the globe. Her work on Taylor Swift began when she hosted the podcast Studies in Taylor Swift, which reads the lyrics of Taylor Swift through the prism of critical theory. She is working on a monograph which argues that Swift's work reflects on and anticipates the kind of reading we do in English classes, and that the tools, concerns, and history of the university study of English shape how the public is already reading Swift.