Amelia Rosch is an upper year PhD candidate at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½. Her research interests include early modern England, the intersection of gender and political power, and print culture. Her dissertation, under the co-supervision of Jeffrey Collins and Daniel Woolf, aims to recover Queen Mary II of England's political agency during her reign. It explores how Mary II exerted political influence, through her personal, political and religious networks, in order to shape government policy, both with and independently of her husband, William III, in order to complicate the traditional "William and Mary" narrative that assumes that Mary was the utterly passive partner in the co-monarchy. In her spare time, she enjoys running, scuba diving and practicing Italian.
Publications:
'Mary do’s now Elizabeth outshine': Mary II and Historic Narratives of Female Monarchy in Post-Glorious Revolution England. The Huntington Library Quarterly, Spring 2025.
The Codpiece with a Charm: Coffee and Sexual Anxiety in 1670s England. The Seventeenth Century, 40 no 2, 2025.
Awards and Recognition:
NACBS - Huntington Library Fellow (2025)
Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library (2025)
