Lauren Working

Lauren Noemie Working is an author and academic. She is a lecturer in Early modern literature and a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York.[1][2]

Career

Working studied at the University of St Andrews and Birkbeck College, University of London. She gained a PhD in Early Modern History at the University of Durham in 2015. Her research has focussed on the engagement of early modern Britain with America and its indigenous populations.[3] Her academic monograph, The Making of an Imperial Polity, was published by Cambridge University Press, and jointly won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize in 2021.[4][5][6]

Publications

  • "James VI and I's Banqueting Houses: A Transatlantic Perspective", British Art Studies, 29 (December 2025). doi:10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-29/lworking
  • with Emily Stevenson, "Between Ship and Library: Global Knowledge and Spaces of Exchange at the Middle Temple", Emma Rhatigan and Jackie Watson, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), pp. 263–286.
  • "The First General Assembly of Virginia: Deerskin, Ruffs and the View from Tsenacommacah", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 3 (2025). doi:10.1017/S0080440125100200.[7]
  • "Anna of Denmark", in Nandini Das (ed.), Lives in Transit in Early Modern England: Identity and Belonging (Amsterdam University Press, 2022), pp. 47–54. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2fzkpnj.10
  • with Nandini Das, João Vicente Melo, and Haig Z. Smith, Blackamoor/Moor, Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England. (Amsterdam, 2021).
  • The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge University Press, 2020).[8][9]
  • '"The Savages of Virginia Our Project": The Powhatans in Jacobean Political Thought', Paul Musselwhite (ed.) et al., Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America (University of North Carolina, 2019). doi:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651798.003.0003
  • "Locating colonization at Jacobean Inns of Court", The Historical Journal, 61:1 (March 2018), pp. 29–51. doi:10.1017/S0018246X16000595

References

  1. ^ Lauren Working: University of York
  2. ^ Lauren Working: Oxford University
  3. ^ Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, c.1550–1700: People
  4. ^ Madeleine Milburn Agency
  5. ^ Lauren Working: British Art Network
  6. ^ Royal Historical Society Awards, 2021
  7. ^ Lauren Noemie Working, University of York
  8. ^ Swingen, Abigail L., "Review: The Making of an Imperial Polity", Early American Literature, 57:1 (2022), pp. 297–302.
  9. ^ Ewen, Misha, "Review: The Making of an Imperial Polity", The English Historical Review, 136:582 (October 2021), pp. 1321–1322. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceab207
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