Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.
British and Irish Literature, 1660-1820; narrative and the novel; history of the book; literature, politics and law; the theory and practice of textual editing
Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, history, and culture; cultural mobility and the history of ideas; the future of the humanities
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