Alexandra Gajda

Short Biography

Alexandra Gajda’s work is situated in the political and intellectual culture of early modern England and Europe. She is in the process of completing a monograph on the circle of Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex. She has published and forthcoming articles in Historical Research, the Historical Journal, The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus and the Oxford Handbook to John Donne. Alexandra is lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham, where she is a member of the Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies. She studied for her BA and DPhil at New College, Oxford University, and she was also a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford, at St Anne’s College. In 2006, Alexandra won the Sir John Neale Prize for Tudor History.