Keynote Speaker

Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre is a Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester. She is a specialist in queenship and royal studies and has published extensively in this area including her recent monographs, Queens and Queenship (ARC, 2021) and Joan of Navarre: Infanta, Duchess, Queen, Witch? (Routledge, 2022). Elena is the organizer of the ‘Kings & Queens’ conference series, founder of the Royal Studies Network, Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Studies Journal and the editor of two book series with Routledge and ARC Humanities Press. Currently, she is developing a six-volume collection on monarchy for Bloomsbury’s Cultural Histories series and is the lead author for textbook on medieval monarchy for Routledge which will be published in 2025/26.

https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/staff-directory/staff-profiles/woodacre.php 

https://winchester.academia.edu/ElenaEllieWoodacre