Eve Houghton

I am a Research Fellow in English at St John’s College, Cambridge. I completed my PhD in English from Yale in 2024. Before that, I received an MPhil from Cambridge and a BA from Yale. My research has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Bibliographical Society of America.

I have taught courses on early modern English literature, Shakespeare, and the history of the novel. At Cambridge, I have supervised across the papers Shakespeare (Part IA, Paper 2); English Literature and its Contexts, 1500-1700 (Part IB, Paper 5); and Early Modern Drama 1588-1642 (Part II, Paper 7). I have supervised BA dissertations and delivered lectures in the Faculty. I am teaching a seminar for the MPhil in English Studies, ‘Novel Theory, 1500-1800.’ I have also taught undergraduate courses at Yale and UCL. 

I write about early modern English prose and drama. I have particular interests in prose style, narrative theory, stage history, gender and sexuality, and the history of the book.  I am working on a book about narrative technique before the novel, and another book about minor characters on the early modern stage.

My essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, ELH, and PBSA. I am a co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Thomas Nashe; a volume on the history of the book index, forthcoming with Penn State University Press; a special issue of the journal Narrative on free indirect style in languages other than English.