Elspeth Currie
Elspeth Currie
Ph.D. Candidate
Contact
Stokes Hall South 354
Email: elspeth.currie@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-8363-4943
Education
- B.A., Gordon College, 2016
- M.St., University of Oxford, 2017
Courses
Modern History I: Early Modern Europe
Europe and the World I
Europe and the World II
Atlantic Worlds I
America and the World II
Research Interests
Early modern Europe, women and gender, intellectual history
Advisor
Department
Biography
Elspeth Currie is a PhD candidate who specializes in women’s history in early modern Europe. Her dissertation, ““For Profit and Pleasure: Women and Latin in England, 1500-1700” examines the mutually beneficial relationship between women and Latin in England’s humanist heyday. She has published on women’s Latin writing in both the early modern and medieval eras. Her other interests include religious history, the Atlantic world, and digital humanities.
Elspeth graduated summa cum laude with a BA in History and Classical Studies from Gordon College in 2016 and received a MSt in Women's Studies with high distinction from the University of Oxford in 2017. Her earlier research studied classical reception in the Jacobean querelle des femmes and matrilineal intellectual legacies in seventeenth century England.
Before returning to higher education, Elspeth taught Latin and history at the secondary level. She is still involved in making women’s Latin writing accessible to students as a contributing translator to The Latin ReadHer App and Project Nota. Her public work includes being a podcast host for early modern history with the New Books Network. Elspeth is also the author of To Marvel More: Holy Attention in the Incarnation Poems of Martha Marchina, a Christmas devotional on the neo-Latin poetry of a seventeenth-century Italian woman. This is the first printed translation of Marchina in English.
Fellowships and Awards
- “Best Article Prize, Volume 20” from Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal for “A Learned Lady? Anne Wentworth Watson and Her Latin Notebook."
- Lilly Graduate Fellows Program
- Presidential Fellowship (MCAS)
- Dissertation Fellowship (MCAS)
Publications
“Double-Sisters: Authority, Gender, and Mortuary Scroll Compositions in the Early Twelfth-Century,” The Haskins Society Journal 35:2023: Studies in Medieval History, ed. William North, (Boydell & Brewer, 2026): 59-92.
“A Learned Lady? Anne Wentworth Watson and Her Latin Notebook,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 20 (2025): 7-38.