Dr Steven Veerapen

Teaching Fellow

English & Creative Writing

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Personal statement

Steven Veerapen was awarded a 1st Class Honours degree from the University of Strathclyde, before graduating with Distinction on the MLitt Renaissance Studies. He was awarded a PhD from Strathclyde in 2014, for a thesis focussing on slander and sedition in Elizabethan law, speech, and writing.

Academic research interests include early modern libel, slander, and reputation, and representations of Anglo-Scottish exchanges up to and immediately following the Union of the Crowns. His next academic study will focus on the life of Anne of Denmark, provisionally titled 'Anne of Denmark: Queen in Two Kingdoms'. As an author, he is also interested in the links between academic research, creative nonfiction, and fiction.

Steven writes popular non-fiction, with books published on Mary Queen of Scots' relationship with her brother, and Elizabeth I's relationship with the Earl of Essex. He has also had published two historical novel trilogies and a standalone historical fiction based on the life and death of Henry, Lord Darnley. His next novel will focus on the death of Elizabeth I and the accession of James VI and I.

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Professional Activities

Dame Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me
Recipient
31/12/2028
Queen James
Recipient
18/6/2026
Transitions and barriers: Scottish school study to 1st year university
Speaker
16/6/2026
Highlight talk on James VI and I
Speaker
10/12/2025
As above
Speaker
27/11/2025
Aye write, Glasgow international book festival
Participant
13/11/2025

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Projects

Tidelines Book Festival: Historical Fiction Demo
Veerapen, Steven (Principal Investigator)
29-Jan-2024 - 29-Jan-2024
Group for Renaissance Research Reading
Argondizza, Peter (Academic) Fudge, Erica (Academic) Hope, Jonathan (Academic) Jajdelska, Elspeth (Academic) Thorne, Alison (Academic) Hogarth, Alan (Post Grad Student) Clark, Douglas Iain (Post Grad Student) Veerapen, Steven (Post Grad Student) Froehlich, Heather Gayle (Post Grad Student)
Research in Renaissance studies has traditionally been a particular strength of English at the University of Strathclyde, and this is reflected in the meetings of the Group for Renaissance Research Reading. The group is made up of both staff and postgraduate students and meets frequently during term time to engage with issues current in the field. Our meetings take the form of seminar talks, and group-discussions of recent work which engages with broad cultural aspects of the Renaissance.

The expertise of group members covers a variety of areas. These include Renaissance literature; the history of ideas; the history of language; social and political history; cultural history – with interests in visual, musical, linguistic, and intellectual history, as well as digital approaches to the analysis of texts. The group also has links to the Scottish Institute of Northern Renaissance Studies (SINRS) and the Journal of the Northern Renaissance. (http://www.northernrenaissance.org/)
10-Jan-2011 - 10-Jan-2014

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Dr Steven Veerapen
Teaching Fellow
English & Creative Writing

Email: steven.veerapen@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted