Initially set up in 2020 as a quiet Padlet conversation between Anouska Lester and Sierra Carter, the Revels Office quickly became a lifeline during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Since then, the Revels Office has grown into a virtual academic network for early modern PhD students and Early Career Researchers from different institutions and countries. We meet online as a group each month. Our aim at the Revels Office is to bring early modernists together to create a supportive and friendly space to share ideas and resources, to answer each other’s questions and give advice, to host guest speakers, to try out new work, and most importantly of all, to meet each other!

As we all know, PhDs and early-career academia can be lonely. There are surprisingly few opportunities for PhD students and Early Career Researchers to regularly interact with academics outside of their own institution except for at conferences, which can can be very overwhelming and isolating when they’re full of new people!

One of our primary goals here at the Revels Office is to help you get to know your colleagues to ease the social pressures of conferences and other academic settings.

New members are always welcome! You can view our current members here. If you’d like to join, sign up to our mailing list here.

The Revels Office website is supported by generous funding from the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York.