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Hidden Stories Postdoctoral FellowAB (Harvard), MA (Toronto), PhD (Toronto)Email: alexandra.atiya at mail.utoronto.ca
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Biography
As a postdoctoral fellow, I support Hidden Stories outreach, events, and research. I also organize weekly meetings of the Old Books New Science (OBNS) labs and support book science and imaging projects.
My recent work has included organizing community outreach through the Hidden Stories / Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre papermaking workshop in September 2025 and supporting book science research and imaging at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. In addition, I have supported research on Ge'ez manuscripts, which formed part of the co-authored publication Grieggs et al. 2023.
My own research focuses on late-medieval English and Iberian drama (particularly, the depiction of economic issues in Middle English morality and miracle plays) and the use of drama manuscripts in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England. Forthcoming papers include an analysis of the Iberian contexts surrounding the sixteenth-century manuscript of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament. I believe that closer attention to – and deeper technical analysis of – drama manuscripts can help us understand the shifting contexts for performance in late-medieval England.