Nadine Akkerman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at

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. Her published work has been concerned with the life and letters of

Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia Elizabeth Stuart (19 August 159613 February 1662) was Electress of the Palatinate and briefly Queen of Bohemia as the wife of Frederick V of the Palatinate. Since her husband's reign in Bohemia lasted for just one winter, she is called the Wi ...

, and early modern espionage, and she has made a major contribution to studies of that Queen, the

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, and the

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, by revisiting and editing original manuscript sources and letters.

Career

Akkerman studied English Language and Literature at the

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. Her 2008 PhD included a survey of the letters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. She has been a visiting fellow at

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, The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

. On 11 August 2016 Akkerman and Daniel Smith staged a production of ''

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'' at

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Selected publications

* ''Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). * 'Unlocking History through Automated Virtual Unfolding of Sealed Documents Imaged by X-ray Microtomography', ''Nature Communications'', 12:1184 (2021), with Jana Dambrogio, Amanda Ghassaei et al. * ''Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). * ''Courtly Rivals in the Hague: Elizabeth of Bohemia and Amalia van Solms'' (Venlo: VanSpijk/Rekafa, 2015). * 'The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford', in Nadine Akkerman & Birgit Houben (eds), ''The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe'' (Leiden: Brill, 2014). * ''The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia'', 3 volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011-2016)

References

External links

Dr. Nadine Akkerman: literary historian, author, and educator
{{DEFAULTSORT:Akkerman, Nadine Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni Women biographers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of Leiden University