Dr Walters obtained her doctorate and master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and her BA from the University of California Santa Cruz. Currently, she is working on an Oxford World Classics edition of Cavendish’s literary works. Her monograph entitled Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science and Politics was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014 (paperback 2017). She is co-editor of Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which won Co-Honorable Mention for the 2022 Collaborative Project Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. In addition, Dr Walters is one of the joint editors of the Restoration section of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing.
She has published articles on Cavendish, Shakespeare and early modern women in relation to science, philosophy, gender and political thought. She welcomes research proposals relating to these topics.
Previously, Dr Walters was a postdoctoral research fellow at Ghent University in Belgium. She has also held academic positions in England, America, and Scotland and has taught guest classes in France. Between studies, she worked in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, she serves on the Editorial Board of ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews and was recently President of the International Margaret Cavendish Society. She is a member of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Journal Article: Gonzales Coques's Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish
Sean Ferrier, Katja Kleinert and Lisa Walters (2024). Gonzales Coques's Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish. Notes & Queries. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjad105
Conference Publication: "Sexual honor, gender, and disciplinary shame in Shakespeare’s measure for measure"
Walters, Elizabeth (2024). "Sexual honor, gender, and disciplinary shame in Shakespeare’s measure for measure". Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Christchurch, New Zealand, 8 - 11 February 2024. Crawley, WA, Australia: Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Book Chapter: The Pleasure of Utopia: Objects of Desire, Epicureanism and Gender during the Renaissance from Thomas More to Milton
Walters, Lisa (2024). The Pleasure of Utopia: Objects of Desire, Epicureanism and Gender during the Renaissance from Thomas More to Milton. Objets de désir dans la littérature et les arts de l’image. (pp. 257-272) edited by Cécile Meynard and Gérald Préher. Rennes, France: Presses universitaires de Rennes. doi: 10.4000/books.pur.197204
All Is Fair in Love and War: On Love and War in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
Doctor Philosophy
Margaret Cavendish: an interdisciplinary perspective
Lisa Walters and Brandie R. Siegfried eds. (2022). Margaret Cavendish: an interdisciplinary perspective. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108780780
Margaret Cavendish: gender, science and politics
Walters, Lisa (2014). Margaret Cavendish: gender, science and politics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/cbo9781107588912
Walters, Lisa (2024). The Pleasure of Utopia: Objects of Desire, Epicureanism and Gender during the Renaissance from Thomas More to Milton. Objets de désir dans la littérature et les arts de l’image. (pp. 257-272) edited by Cécile Meynard and Gérald Préher. Rennes, France: Presses universitaires de Rennes. doi: 10.4000/books.pur.197204
Walters, Lisa (2023). Margaret Cavendish 1623-1673. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth-, Sixteenth-, Seventeenth-, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers. (pp. 171-177) edited by Jennifer Stock. Farmington Hills, Mi, United States: Gale.
Introduction: the intellectual span of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Siegfried, Brandie R. and Walters, Lisa (2022). Introduction: the intellectual span of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Margaret Cavendish: an interdisciplinary perspective. (pp. 1-16) edited by Lisa Walters and Brandie R. Siegfried. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108780780.001
A new science for a new world: Margaret Cavendish on the question of poverty
Siegfried, Brandie R. and Walters, Lisa (2022). A new science for a new world: Margaret Cavendish on the question of poverty. 1650-1850: Ideas, aesthetics, and inquiries in the early modern era. (pp. 21-36) edited by Kevin L. Cope. Lewisburg, PA, United States: Bucknell University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv2vt04cz.5
Reframing the picture: screening early modern women for modern audiences
Miller, Naomi J. and Walters, Lisa (2021). Reframing the picture: screening early modern women for modern audiences. World-making Renaissance women. (pp. 70-86) edited by Pamela S. Hammons and Brandie R. Siegfried. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108923385.005
Jones, Katherine, Lady Ranelagh
Walters, Lisa (2021). Jones, Katherine, Lady Ranelagh. The Palgrave encyclopedia of early modern women's writing. (pp. 1-6) edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_190-1
Epicurus and gender in the British Newcastle Circle: Charleton, Hobbes And Margaret Cavendish
Walters, Lisa (2020). Epicurus and gender in the British Newcastle Circle: Charleton, Hobbes And Margaret Cavendish. A companion to the Cavendishes. (pp. 181-197) edited by Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter. Leeds, York, United Kingdom: Arc Humanities Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv22d4zg6.16
Margaret Cavendish, Poems, and Fancies (1653)
Walters, Lisa (2019). Margaret Cavendish, Poems, and Fancies (1653). Handbook of English Renaissance literature. (pp. 594-614) edited by Ingo Berensmeyer. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110444889-031
The philosophy and literature of childhood cognition: John Milton and Margaret Cavendish
Walters, Lisa (2019). The philosophy and literature of childhood cognition: John Milton and Margaret Cavendish. Literary cultures and medieval and early modern childhoods. (pp. 203-218) edited by Naomi J. Miller and Diane Purkiss. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-14211-7_13
Gender subversion in the science of Margaret Cavendish
Walters, Lisa (2009). Gender subversion in the science of Margaret Cavendish. Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Margaret Cavendish. (pp. 251-262) edited by Sara H. Mendelson. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315264707-27
Cavendish's letters of subversion
Walters, Lisa (2006). Cavendish's letters of subversion. The female wits: women and gender in restoration literature and culture. (pp. 281-294) edited by Pilar Cuder Domínguez, Zenón Luis Martínez and Juan A. Prieto Pablos. Huelva, Spain: University of Huelva.
Sean Ferrier, Katja Kleinert and Lisa Walters (2024). Gonzales Coques's Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish. Notes & Queries. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjad105
Moriarty, Clare Marie and Walters, Lisa (2023). Berkeley's gland tour into speculative fiction part 2: Margaret Cavendish and Berkeley's attitudes towards women. Philosophy Compass, 18 (4) e12909. doi: 10.1111/phc3.12909
Berkeley's gland tour into speculative fiction part 1: Homer, Descartes and Pope
Moriarty, Clare Marie and Walters, Lisa (2023). Berkeley's gland tour into speculative fiction part 1: Homer, Descartes and Pope. Philosophy Compass, 18 (4) e12908. doi: 10.1111/phc3.12908
Ferrier, Sean and Walters, Lisa (2021). Hamlet and Lucretian anxiety. Shakespeare, 18 (2), 176-196. doi: 10.1080/17450918.2021.1981991
Walters, Lisa (2020). Margaret Cavendish, Poems and Fancies with The Animal Parliament, edited by Brandie R. Siegfried, Tempe, AZ, Iter Press & Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018, 462 pp., $59.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-86698-593-2. The Seventeenth Century, 35 (2), 259-261. doi: 10.1080/0268117x.2019.1654406
A Description of the Blazing World. Sara H. Mendelson, ed.
Walters, Lisa (2019). A Description of the Blazing World. Sara H. Mendelson, ed.. Early Modern Women, 13 (2), 110-113. doi: 10.1353/emw.2019.0031
The Unnatural Tragedy by Margaret Cavendish
Walters, Lisa (2018). The Unnatural Tragedy by Margaret Cavendish. Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, 42 (2), 135-137. doi: 10.1353/rst.2018.0010
Ferrier, Sean and Walters, Lisa (2017). Review of Cavendish, Woolf, and the Cypriot Goddess Natura by Jim Fitzmaurice, performed at the Centre of Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, Cyprus. Early Modern Literary Studies, 19 (2).
Walters, Lisa (2016). Monstrous births and imaginations: authorship and folklore in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Renaissance and Reformation, 39 (1), 115-146. doi: 10.33137/rr.v39i1.26545
Review of Utopian Negotiation: Aphra Behn & Margaret Cavendish, Oddvar Holmesland
Walters, Lisa (2015). Review of Utopian Negotiation: Aphra Behn & Margaret Cavendish, Oddvar Holmesland. Early Modern Women, 10 (1), 216-219. doi: 10.1353/emw.2015.0013
Optics and authorship in Margaret Cavendish’s Observations and The Blazing World
Walters, Lisa (2014). Optics and authorship in Margaret Cavendish’s Observations and The Blazing World. Viator, 45 (3), 377-393. doi: 10.1484/j.viator.5.102933
Omitted edition of Margaret Cavendish's Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1663)
Walters, Lisa (2013). Omitted edition of Margaret Cavendish's Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1663). Notes and Queries, 60 (4), 542-545. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjt201
Gender and civil war politics in Margaret Cavendish’s “Assaulted and Pursued Chastity”
Walters, Elizabeth (2013). Gender and civil war politics in Margaret Cavendish’s “Assaulted and Pursued Chastity”. Early Modern Women, 8, 207-240. doi: 10.1086/emw23617851
Oberon and masculinity in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Walters, Lisa (2013). Oberon and masculinity in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 26 (3), 157-160. doi: 10.1080/0895769x.2013.779172
Walters, Lisa (2010). “[N]ot subject to our sense”: Margaret Cavendish's fusion of renaissance science, magic and fairy lore. Women's Writing, 17 (3), 413-431. doi: 10.1080/09699080903162039
VIII: The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General
Burton, John, Walters, Lisa and Trill, Suzanne (2009). VIII: The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General. The Year's Work in English Studies, 88 (1), 530-552. doi: 10.1093/ywes/map012
VIII: The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General and Prose
Burton, John R. and Walters, Lisa (2008). VIII: The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General and Prose. The Year's Work in English Studies, 87 (1), 536-549. doi: 10.1093/ywes/man001
VIII: The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General and Prose
Vella Bonavita, Helen, Walters, Lisa and Trill, Suzanne (2007). VIII: The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General and Prose. The Year's Work in English Studies, 86 (1), 475-496. doi: 10.1093/ywes/mam008
Hero Chalmers. Royalist Women Writers 1650-1689. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. xii+228pp.
Walters, Lisa (2006). Hero Chalmers. Royalist Women Writers 1650-1689. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. xii+228pp.. Early Modern Literary Studies.
VIII: The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General, Women's Writing
Bonavita, Helen Vella and Walters, Lisa (2006). VIII: The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General, Women's Writing. The Year's Work in English Studies, 85 (1), 449-476. doi: 10.1093/ywes/mal008
VIII: The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General, Prose, Women's Writing
Vella Bonavita, Helen and Walters, Lisa (2005). VIII: The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General, Prose, Women's Writing. The Year's Work in English Studies, 84 (1), 471-498. doi: 10.1093/ywes/mai008
Gender subversion in the science of Margaret Cavendish
Walters, Lisa (2004). Gender subversion in the science of Margaret Cavendish. Early Modern Literary Studies, 14.
VIII The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General, Prose, Women's Writing
Doelman, James and Walters, Lisa (2004). VIII The Earlier Seventeenth Century: General, Prose, Women's Writing. The Year's Work in English Studies, 83 (1), 401-431. doi: 10.1093/ywes/mah008
"Sexual honor, gender, and disciplinary shame in Shakespeare’s measure for measure"
Walters, Elizabeth (2024). "Sexual honor, gender, and disciplinary shame in Shakespeare’s measure for measure". Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Christchurch, New Zealand, 8 - 11 February 2024. Crawley, WA, Australia: Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Margaret Cavendish, poverty, and the working poor in early modern England
Walters, Lisa (2023). Margaret Cavendish, poverty, and the working poor in early modern England. Modern Language Association 2023 Convention, San Francisco, CA, United States, 5 - 8 January 2023.
Science fiction and philosophy panel
Walters, Lisa, Moriarty, Claire, Burton, James and Powell, Lewis (2020). Science fiction and philosophy panel. Forum for Philosophy, London, United Kingdom, 1 December 2020.
Walters, Lisa (2021, 11 18). Science fiction is philosophy IAI News
All Is Fair in Love and War: On Love and War in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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