Dr. Edward Wilson Lee

Biography

Edward Wilson-Lee is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge, with degrees from University College London and Columbia University. He specializes in cultural intellectual history during the early modern period, focusing on European connections to the wider world. His research emphasizes the history of books, translation, and knowledge circulation. Notable projects include a biography of the bibliomaniac Hernando Colón, who was the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus, and a dual biography detailing the legacies of key Portuguese writers from the sixteenth century. His recent work explores the global concept of the sublime through the life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and he is involved in editorial projects for Oxford University Press, cataloguing significant collections from the era. Wilson-Lee's areas of graduate supervision include the history of book printing, translation (especially from French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese), and transnational literary relationships. He has supervised doctoral theses on topics related to English reformation and Shakespeare's influence across cultures.

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