
Dr Rachel Scott
Postdoctoral Research Assistant –Travelling Concepts, Language Acts and Worldmaking
Biography
Rachel holds a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Medieval Studies from King’s College London, and a PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Studies, also from King’s. She has previously taught undergraduate courses in medieval Spanish literature at King’s and in 2014-2015 was a Lecturer in Medieval Spanish Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, where she also ran the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar.
Research Interests and PhD Supervision
- Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, cultural and intellectual history
- Comparative studies
- Reception studies
Rachel’s research focuses on late medieval and early modern Spanish literary and textual culture. She is particularly interested in intersections between East and West, cultural translation, and the reception of medieval literature in early modern Europe (including outside of Spain, e.g. in Italy and England). Her work considers the way in which the meaning of texts and culture change as they move across time and space and engages with scholarship on the history of the book to consider how material form both creates and reflects reception and significance.
She has won several awards for her research, including the Elsevier Outstanding PhD Thesis Prize (2015) and Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland Award for most distinguished doctoral thesis (2015).
Her monograph on the 16th-century reception of Celestina in Spain and Italy was published in 2017 with Tamesis: https://boydellandbrewer.com/i-celestina-i-and-the-human-condition-in-early-modern-spain-and-italy.html
For more details, please see her full research profile.
Expertise and Public Engagement
Through roles in the King’s Cultural Institute, Rachel has experience working at the intersection between academia and the cultural and educational sectors and is interested in the benefits brought by public engagement.
Research

Being Human Festival 2019
In 2019 the AHRI, in collaboration with QMUL, was awarded joint ‘hub’ status for the Being Human Festival, delivering 5 public engagement activities.
Project status: Completed
Events

Encounters, Legacies and Trajectories: A Research Colloquium on Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literary Worlds
Sharing current projects and fostering future lines of research in the study of medieval and early modern Iberia and its contact zones across the globe.
Please note: this event has passed.
Research

Being Human Festival 2019
In 2019 the AHRI, in collaboration with QMUL, was awarded joint ‘hub’ status for the Being Human Festival, delivering 5 public engagement activities.
Project status: Completed
Events

Encounters, Legacies and Trajectories: A Research Colloquium on Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literary Worlds
Sharing current projects and fostering future lines of research in the study of medieval and early modern Iberia and its contact zones across the globe.
Please note: this event has passed.