Dr Laura Seymour

Uwch Ddarlithydd mewn Llenyddiaeth Saesneg a Chymrawd Datblygu Gyrfa Ymddiriedolaeth Croeso

English Literature

laura.seymour@abertawe.ac.uk

Siaradwr Cymraeg Sylfaenol

Ar gael ar gyfer Goruchwyliaeth Ôl-raddedig

Trosolwg

Mae Laura Seymour yn ymchwilio i astudiaethau niwroamrywiaeth modern cynnar, gan ganolbwyntio'n bennaf ar lenyddiaeth o Brydain, Sbaen a Gwlad Pwyl, ac ar lenyddiaeth neo-Ladin. Laura yw awdur Shakespeare and Neurodiversity (Cambridge University Press, 2025) a Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

Mae prosiect ymchwil presennol Laura, 'AMEND - Early Modern European Neurodivergence', ar waith rhwng 2025 a 2030, a chaiff ei ariannu gan Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome. Mae tri nod gan y prosiect cydweithredol hwn. Yn gyntaf, defnyddio dulliau ymchwil archifol, y dyniaethau digidol ac ymarfer-fel-ymchwil i ddiffinio sut roedd niwrowahaniaeth yn cael ei ddeall, ei brofi a'i fyw yn Ewrop rhwng 1550 a 1750 OC, ar draws ieithoedd a diwylliannau. Yn ail, defnyddio testunau modern cynnar i fireinio dulliau llenyddol-feirniadol niwrowahanol. Yn drydydd, archwilio'r rhyngberthnasau rhwng darllen, ysgrifennu creadigol a lles ar gyfer pobl niwrowahanol.

Ar hyn o bryd, mae Laura yn ysgrifennu Early Modern Neurodivergence (Oxford University Press, a rhagwelir y caiff ei gyhoeddi yn 2027/8) ac yn cyd-awduro The Sedentary Renaissance gyda Dr Eva Lauenstein (Brill, 2028) sy'n archwilio pwysigrwydd eistedd mewn testunau a gwaith celf o Brydain, Ffrainc, yr Almaen a'r Iseldiroedd yn fframweithiau rhywedd, hil, niwrowahaniaeth ac anabledd, ac yng nghyd-destun arferion gorweithio ac eisteddogrwydd academaidd.

Mae Laura yn ffafrio gweithio'n gydweithredol ac yn gyd-greadigol, yn enwedig gyda phobl niwrowahanol a phobl anabl.

Y tu hwnt i'r byd academaidd, mae Laura'n gweithio fel cwnselydd seicotherapiwtig, yn wirfoddol ac mewn ymarfer preifat.

Cyhoeddiadau

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Seymour, L. (2025). 'All Discourses but My Own Afflict Me: Morose's House as a Seventeenth-Century Autistic Utopia'. Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture Bloomsbury Publishing
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69839
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-neurodiversity-studies-9781350421172/
Seymour, L. (2025). 'This Silly Deluded Woman': Rhapsodic Experiences and Intellectual Disability in Humphrey Ellis's Pseudochristus (1650).. In Alice Equestri (Ed.), Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture Edinburgh University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69840
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping-intellectual-disabilities-in-early-modern-culture.html
Seymour, L. (2025). A cordwainer’s wife in high politics: a microhistory of Mrs Caute*. The Seventeenth Century, 40(3), 511-529.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2025.2477132, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69304
Seymour, L. (2025). Shakespeare and Neurodiversity (Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy, Cambridge University Press, 2025) Cambridge University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70142
Seymour, L. (2024). Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto. The Explicator, 83(1)
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2024.2409718, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70144
Seymour, L. & Lauenstein, E. (2024). Sit Down, Take Pen and Ink and Write: Are You Ready? Sitting in the Early Modern Imagination. ELH - English Literary History, 91(2), 315-343.
https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2024.a929151, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70143
Seymour, L. (2022). Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) Edinburgh University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70141
Seymour, L. (2022). Small Things That Cleave: Hannah Allen’s Scissors and Her Religious Melancholy. SEL - Studies in English Literature, 62(3)
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70150
Seymour, L. (2021). The Name of Grim: Tracing the Character of Grim the Collier in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Theatre. Early Theater, 24(2), 55-72.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.12745/et.24.2.4534, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70148
Seymour, L. (2021). The Silent Classroom: Teaching Lost Plays. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 28(2)
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70149

Holl Ymchwil

Erthyglau Cylchgronau

Seymour, L. (2025). A cordwainer’s wife in high politics: a microhistory of Mrs Caute*. The Seventeenth Century, 40(3), 511-529.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2025.2477132, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69304
Seymour, L. (2024). Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto. The Explicator, 83(1)
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2024.2409718, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70144
Seymour, L. & Lauenstein, E. (2024). Sit Down, Take Pen and Ink and Write: Are You Ready? Sitting in the Early Modern Imagination. ELH - English Literary History, 91(2), 315-343.
https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2024.a929151, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70143
Seymour, L. (2022). Small Things That Cleave: Hannah Allen’s Scissors and Her Religious Melancholy. SEL - Studies in English Literature, 62(3)
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70150
Seymour, L. (2021). The Name of Grim: Tracing the Character of Grim the Collier in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Theatre. Early Theater, 24(2), 55-72.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.12745/et.24.2.4534, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70148
Seymour, L. (2021). The Silent Classroom: Teaching Lost Plays. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 28(2)
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70149
Seymour, L. (2020). The feasting table as the gateway to hell on the early modern stage and page. Renaissance Studies, 34(3)
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12618, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70151
Seymour, L. (2018). Loving Gardens, Loving the Gardener? ‘Solitude’ in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Garden’. Marvell Studies, 3(2)
https://doi.org/10.16995/ms.26, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70152
Seymour, L. (n.d.) Shakespearean Echolalia: Autism and Versification in King John.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2022.2090596, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70146
Seymour, L. (n.d.) Copying Not Diagnosing: The Case of Hugh Blair of Borgue.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v43i2.8811, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70145

Llyfrau Awdurol

Seymour, L. (2025). Shakespeare and Neurodiversity (Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy, Cambridge University Press, 2025) Cambridge University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70142
Seymour, L. (2022). Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) Edinburgh University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70141

Penodau Llyfrau

Seymour, L. (2025). 'All Discourses but My Own Afflict Me: Morose's House as a Seventeenth-Century Autistic Utopia'. Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture Bloomsbury Publishing
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69839
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-neurodiversity-studies-9781350421172/
Seymour, L. (2025). 'This Silly Deluded Woman': Rhapsodic Experiences and Intellectual Disability in Humphrey Ellis's Pseudochristus (1650).. In Alice Equestri (Ed.), Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture Edinburgh University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69840
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping-intellectual-disabilities-in-early-modern-culture.html
Seymour, L. & Woods, G. (2017). Henry V: Teaching and Learning. In Karen Britland and Line Cottegnies (Ed.), Henry V: A Critical Reader Bloomsbury
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70157
Seymour, L. (2017). Exchanging Hands in Titus Andronicus. In Timothy Chesters and Kathryn Banks (Ed.), Kinesic Intelligence: Rethinking Movement in Renaissance Literature Johns Hopkins
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70155
Seymour, L. (2016). ‘Her Silence Flouts Me: Stillness, Silence, and Cognitive Underload on the Shakespearean Stage’,. In Peter Garratt (Ed.), The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture Palgrave
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70154
Seymour, L. (2015). Doth Not Brutus Bootless Kneel? Kneeling, Cognition, and Destructive Plasticity in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. In Rhonda Blair and Amy Cook (Ed.), Languages, Bodies, and Ecologies: Theater, Performance, and Cognition Methuen
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70156