Herin Iole Han

Thesis Title: Legal and Literary Complaints, 1550-1625

Supervisor: Professor Lorna Hutson

My doctoral thesis considers how complaint, as a pervasive literary mode of the English Renaissance for expressions of political, religious, or erotic lamentation, diverged from its classical and medieval precedents to flourish as a legally inflected mode. In particular, I focus on the literature of complaint's imitative divergence from the Ovidian model of female-voiced lament in response to contemporary changes in the legal culture and language of complaint. My research is supported by the Clarendon Fund, the AHRC OOC-DTP, and Magdalen College. Before beginning my DPhil, I completed the M.St. English (1550-1700) at Merton College, Oxford, and a BA in English Literature at University College London.

Conference Papers
'Reading Satire in The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights (1632),' Legal-Literary Imagining: An Early Modern Workshop, St John's College, Oxford, 11 March 2024.