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.

Elected 2007

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2007
Sections: Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830, Early Modern History to 1850
Website: https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-richard-mccabe

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

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Professor Ingrid De Smet FBA

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Professor Geoffrey Parker FBA

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Professor Richard McCabe FBA

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 -