Jonathan Pinkerton

Jonathan Pinkerton received a BA in English Literature from Wichita State University (USA) in 2013, after which he worked as a paralegal in his local District Attorney’s office before returning to academia in 2019 and receiving an MA in English Literature from Wichita State University in 2020 under the supervision of Dr Rebeccah Bechtold, Dr Darren DeFrain, and Dr Francis Connor. 

In 2021, Jonathan was a laureate for a co-supervised doctorate between the Initiatives for Science, Innovation Territories and Economy - Université de Lille Nord-Europe (I-SITE ULNE)’s Groupe d'Études et de la Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et Communication (GERIICO) and the University of Kent’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS). 

He began work on Marlowe’s Playbooks (a thesis project in association with The Oxford Marlowe) under the supervision of Dr Rory Loughnane and Professor Catherine Richardson at the University of Kent, and Professor Widad Mustafa El Hadi and Dr Joana Casenave at GERIICO.

Jonathan’s particular fields of interest include, but are not limited to: 

• Early modern drama
• Digital humanities
• Knowledge organization
• Ecocriticism
• Cultural studies
• Post-colonial literature
• Composition and pedagogy
• Epidemiological criticism 
• Authorship, editing, and textual studies

Thesis title

Marlowe’s Playbooks: research into the publication history of Christopher Marlowe’s poems and plays, including tracking his publication record, the frequency of reprints, and any changes introduced with each reprinting, followed by analysis of how reprints adhered to or departed from prior iterations, all done through the use of digital toolsets - e.g. using deep learning networks to “read” prints of Marlowe’s works for conversion into markup languages.