Why the Gloucester shipwreck matters with Claire Jowitt

The Gloucester Project is a significant historical research project exploring the life and times of the Gloucester frigate. Professor Claire Jowitt from UEA will present an update on the Gloucester Project and what has taught us.About the speaker
Claire Jowitt is a Professor of English and History at the University of East Anglia. Her research is driven by a love of travel and the sea, and an interest in how people move between cultures and ideas across time. She has published widely on early modern travel writing and maritime culture, plays about cultural encounter, and the intersections between discourses of gender, race, colonial and/or imperial identities, and power.
She is Director of the Shipwrecks and Maritime Heritage Research Centre and Professor of Renaissance Studies in the UEA School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing and School of History. She is also a Trustee of the Gloucester 1682 Charitable Trust and serves on its Development Board.