Research Fields

• Classical reception
• Intellectual history
• Sound studies
• Renaissance
• Reformation
• Poetics
• Aristotelianism
• Humanism
• Book history

About

Micha Lazarus is Senior Lecturer in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works on the intellectual history and literary culture of Renaissance and Reformation Europe, and in particular on the reception of the classics in sixteenth-century England. He is General Editor of Sources in Early Poetics (Brill), and co-convenor of Poetics before Modernity, an international project on the history of literary criticism. Before coming to the Hebrew University, Micha spent several years as a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Warburg Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and a member of the Bar of England and Wales.

 

Selected Publications

1. ‘Birdsongs and Sonnets: Acoustic Imitation in Renaissance Lyric’, Huntington Library Quarterly 84.4 (2021), 681-715.  [online here]

2. ‘Sublimity by fiat: New Light on the English Longinus’, in The Places of Early Modern Criticism, ed. Gavin Alexander, Emma Gilby, and Alexander Marr (Oxford, 2021), 191-205.  [online here]

3. ‘Tragedy at Wittenberg: Sophocles in Reformation Europe’, Renaissance Quarterly 73.1 (2020), 33-77.  [online here]

4. ‘The Dramatic Prologues of Alexander Nowell: Accommodating the Classics at 1540s Westminster’, Review of English Studies 69.288 (2018), 32-55.  [online here]

5. ‘Aristotelian Criticism in Sixteenth-Century England’, in Oxford Handbooks Online (Oxford University Press, 2016).  [online here]

 

Selected Awards

Herzog August Bibliothek Research Fellow, Wolfenbüttel (2022)

Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellow, Washington D.C. (2022)

Frances A. Yates Long-Term Fellow, Warburg Institute, London (2020-2021)

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2020)

Gordon Duff Prize in book history, University of Cambridge Libraries (2020); Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (2012)

Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellow, Washington D.C. (2019)

Renaissance Society of America Research Fellow (2018)

Dumbarton Oaks Research Award, Washington D.C. (2017)

Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow, University of Texas, Austin (2016)

Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (2015–2021)

 

Teaching

Seventeenth-Century Poetry (B.A. seminar, Semester A, 2022/3)

Introduction to Poetry (B.A. lecture course, Semester A, 2022/3)

Introduction to Shakespeare (B.A. lecture course, Semester B, 2022/3)

Making it New in Renaissance England (M.A. seminar, Semester B, 2022/3)