Alexandra Atiya

My research focuses on late-medieval English drama. My research interests include drama history, drama manuscripts, and digital humanities. In my dissertation, which I defended in January 2026, I drew on archival records and manuscript histories to analyze the depiction of economic issues in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Middle English morality and miracle plays. As a postdoctoral fellow, I will be working on projects related to the Old Books New Science Lab (OBNS) and the Records of Early English Drama (REED), including co-editing a forthcoming REED collection for the county of Buckinghamshire.

List of Publications 

• "Whych in Aragon was doon”: Reevaluating the Setting of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament,” Early Theatre, Forthcoming June 2026.
• “Juan del Encina’s Nativity Plays: A New English Translation.” ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama, vol. 58, no. 1, 2021, pp. 39–72.
• “Text to Speech.” How We Read: Tales, Fury, Sound, Nothing, edited by Kaitlin Heller and Suzanne Akbari, punctum books, 2019, pp. 85–96.
• Sam Grieggs, et al. “Automated Transcription of Gə'əz Manuscripts Using Deep Learning.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, 2023.