Natasha Simonova

Fellow and Lecturer in English (1550-1830)

Exeter College, University of Oxford

Natasha Simonova is a Fellow and Lecturer in English (1550-1830) at Exeter College, Oxford. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh and has held previous positions at Edinburgh, Oxford, and Cambridge. Her pithily-titled first monograph, Early Modern Authorship and Prose Continuations: Adaptation and Ownership from Sidney to Richardson (Palgrave, 2015) traced the 'prehistory' of fanfiction in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how developing ideas about authorship interacted with such factors as copyright law and the relationship between manuscript and print. She is generally interested in early prose fiction, particularly more neglected genres like the romance, and is currently working on a project about eighteenth-century women's 'amateur' intellectual labour.