Professor Richard McCabe FBA

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.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
History, Literature

Current post

Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, Fellow of Merton College

Past appointments

Merton College University of Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, Fellow of Merton College

1993 -

Merton College University of Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, Fellow of Merton College

1993 -

Trinity College, Dublin Fellow of Trinity College Dublin

1992 - 1993

Trinity College, Dublin Lecturer

1986 - 1992

University College Dublin Lecturer

1982 - 1986

Pembroke College University of Cambridge Pembroke College, Cambridge University, Drapers' Research Fellow

1978 - 1982

Publications

The Pillars of Eternity: Time and Providence in 'The Faerier Queene' 1987

Incest, Drama, and Nature's Law 1993

Spenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference 2002

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly FBA

Early modern German culture; European court culture, especially festivals, of the early modern period; the representation of women in German literature; writing by women in German.

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Professor Seema Alavi FBA

Seema Alavi's research interests are the social, religious and cultural history of South Asia and the Indian Ocean world:18th-19th centuries.

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Dr Felicity Heal FBA

British social and religious history of the C16th and C17th; social practices of elites, especially hospitality and gift-exchange; the political and cultural nature of religious identity in Britain and Ireland

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