Dr Maria Shmygol
Dr Maria Shmygol
Member, MEMOs

Maria Shmygol is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Moore Institute (National University of Ireland, Galway), where she is working on a project about non-European geographies and English drama, from c.1570 to 1660. Maria’s research interests include early modern drama, theatricality, travel writing, textual editing, and book history. She is Assistant Editor on the Oxford University Press Complete Works of John Marston (gen. eds. Martin Butler and Matthew Steggle), and has a forthcoming edition of William Percy’s The Aphrodysial (1602), prepared for the Malone Society. In collaboration with Lukas Erne, she is translator and editor of a seventeenth-century German play entitled Tito Andronico for Arden Shakespeare (2022) and has recently published an article on mock sea-fights in Jacobean London. Maria is a Trustee and Director of the British Shakespeare Association. She has held postdocs at the Universities of Geneva and Leeds, and fellowships at the Library of Congress and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her previous research was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Société Académique de Genève, and the Schmidheiny Foundation. At MEMOS, Maria curates the ‘Projects’ page. She tweets @MariaShmygol