Lily Freeman-Jones
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Lily Freeman-Jones is a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London. Her thesis examines human and animal skins on London’s stages (1570-1642) and uses digital humanities approaches alongside traditional literary methods. This project is fully funded by a QMUL Principal’s Studentship, and supervised by Prof. Warren Boutcher (QMUL) and Prof. Evelyn Welch (KCL), who runs the Wellcome-funded Renaissance Skin project (2018-2022). She previously studied at the University of Cambridge. So far, she has written about sheepskins and lawyers; the second skins used to represent human gender or race; and lionskins and invulnerability. Aside from skin studies, her research interests include early modern women's writing, medical humanities, book history, and contemporary poetry, as well as a troublesome interest in things difficult to convey.
