With undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol (BA in
English with Greek Literature, 1997) and graduate studies at the
University of Reading (MA in The English Renaissance: Politics,
Patronage and Literature, 1998; PhD in English Literature; 2002),
Stella Achilleos is now a Lecturer in English at the University of
Cyprus. Her research interests lie in the field of early modern
literature and culture, focusing in particular on the production
and transmission of literary texts in relation to social and
political contexts. Her publications have mainly concentrated on
seventeenth-century poetry, sociability, and cultural exchange, and
include a number of essays on the dissemination of the
Anacreontea within various social and political networks
in early modern England, with special focus on the appropriation of
the genre by Ben Jonson and his ‘sons’ and its use as a royalist
marker in the mid-seventeenth century. Her current research
concentrates primarily on the practices and discourses of
friendship in early modern literature and culture.