- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2020
Colin Burrow is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford. He is one of the editors of Review of English Studies, and is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books on topics ranging from antiquity to contemporary poetry. His principal area of research is the relationship between classical literature and English literature in the early modern period. He has edited the complete poems and Sonnets of Shakespeare and the complete poems of Ben Jonson. His most recent monograph, Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity, examines what it is for one author to imitate another, both in theory and in practice, from antiquity to the age of bot-poetry and beyond. He is working on the Elizabethan volume of the Oxford English Literary History.
Current post
Senior Research Fellow, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, All Souls College, Oxford
Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge Emeritus Fellow
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Reader in Renaissance and Comparative Literature
2003 - 2006
University of Cambridge Assistant Lecturer in English; Lecturer; Senior Lecturer
1989 - 2006
Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge Fellow
1987 - 2006
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