Nadine Akkerman Explained

Nadine Akkerman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University in the Netherlands.^[1] Her published work has been concerned with the life and letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, and early modern espionage, and she has made a major contribution to studies of that Queen, the Thirty Years War, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, by revisiting and editing original manuscript sources and letters.^[2]

Career

Akkerman studied English Language and Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her 2008 PhD included a survey of the letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. She has been a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and the University of Birmingham.^[3]

On 11 August 2016, Akkerman and Daniel Smith staged a production of The Masque of Queens at New College, Oxford.^[4]

Selected publications

• Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration (Yale University Press, 2024), with Pete Langman.^[5]
• Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).^[6]
• 'Unlocking History through Automated Virtual Unfolding of Sealed Documents Imaged by X-ray Microtomography', Nature Communications, 12:1184 (2021), with Jana Dambrogio, Amanda Ghassaei et al.
• Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).^[7]
• Courtly Rivals in the Hague: Elizabeth of Bohemia and Amalia van Solms (Venlo: VanSpijk/Rekafa, 2015).
• 'The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford', in Nadine Akkerman & Birgit Houben (eds), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2014).
• The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, 3 volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011-2016)

External links

• Dr. Nadine Akkerman: literary historian, author, and educator
• Lisa Jardine Memorial Lecture 2023 - Nadine Akkerman: Archival pursuits: unediting lives and letters

Notes and References

1. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2022/09/nadine-akkerman-appointed-professor-interdisciplinarity-also-strengthens-the-humanities Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities, Leiden University
2. Anna Groundwater, 'Winter in Bohemia', Literary Review, 501, October 2021
3. https://ammodo-science-award.org/en/fundamental/laureate/nadine-akkerman/ Nadine Akkerman, Ammodo Science Award
4. https://malonesociety.com/news/the-masque-of-queens/ Staging The Masque of Queens, Malone Society
5. News: Bate . Jonathan . Jonathan Bate . Forget 007 – England's wildest spies were the Elizabethans . 19 June 2024 . . 18 June 2024.
6. News: Maltby . Kate . With Elizabeth Stuart as monarch, might the English civil war have been avoided? . 19 June 2024 . . 27 November 2021.
7. News: Sanderson . David . English Civil War army of female spies hid messages in eggs . 19 June 2024 . . 31 May 2019.