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Professor Greg Walker
Email Address: Greg.Walker@ed.ac.uk
Telephone Number: 0131 6503049
Office: 8.06 David Hume Tower
Office hours: Semester Two: Thursday 10.30 - 12
Masson Professor of English Literature
Greg was previously Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture and Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester. He gained a BA in English and History and a PhD in early-Tudor literature and history from the University of Southampton, was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Southampton and taught at the Universities of Queensland and Buckingham before joining the University of Leicester in 1991. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the English Association, Chair of the Council for College and University English, and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and the Research Assessment Exercise sub-panel for English Language and Literature for 2008. He is co-editor, with Elaine Treharne, of the Oxford Textual Perspectives monograph series (OUP), and with Martin Stannard of Studies in European Cultural Transition (Ashgate), and a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Medieval English Theatre, PE:ER, and Reformation. He is married with two sons, and admits to being an enthusiast for two generally unpopular causes, Nottingham Forest Football Club and Progressive Rock music.
Greg has written widely on late-medieval drama and poetry, Renaissance literature, the history of the stage in the period before the building of the professional playhouses, and the cultural consequences of the Henrician Reformation, and also has interests in the early films of Alexander Korda.
He has supervised students on a range of topics at MA and PhD level, ranging from the dream-visions and romances of the Fourteenth Century to the drama of the late Sixteenth Century, and covering topics as diverse as the Shakespearean films of Sir Laurence Olivier and the representation of animals in late fourteenth century literature. He is very happy to supervise postgraduate work in any or all of the following areas:
- Medieval and Tudor Drama: Textual and Performance History
- The Literature of the early Sixteenth Century: Skelton, Wyatt, Heywood, Bale, etc.
- The Henrician Reformation: Political and Literary Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII
- The Printed Book in the reign of Henry VIII
- Chaucer and the Literature of the late Fourteenth Century
- Romance, Gender and Genre in the Late Medieval period
- Comedy: Medieval to Modern
- The Films of Alexander Korda
- Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2005; pbk editions, 2007).
- Alexander Korda, The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) (I.B. Tauris, British Film Series, 2003).
- edited: Medieval Drama: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2000).
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama (Cambridge University Press, 1998; paperback, 2006).
- edited: John Skelton (Everyman Poetry Library, 1997),
- Persuasive Fictions: Faction, Faith, and Political Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII (Scolar Press, 1996), pp. xv + 203.
- Plays of Persuasion: Drama and Politics at the Court of Henry VIII (CUP, 1991).
- John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s (CUP, 1988; CUP pbk, 2002).
- ‘The Textual Archaeology of The Plowman’s Tale’ in Anne Marie D’Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds, The Key of All Good Remembrance: Essays on Medieval Texts in History (Dublin, Four Courts, 2005), pp. 375-401.
- ‘Flytyng Against Convention: Protest and Innovation in Lindsay’s Satire of the Thrie Estaitis’, W. Hüsken and P. Happé, eds, Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Power, Gender and Theatricality (Rodopi, 2007), pp. 211-39.
- ‘Selling England (and Italy) by the Pound?: Performing Englishness in English and Italian Progressive Rock’, in R. Hertel and M. Pfister, eds, In Medias Res (Rodopi, 2007).‘The Cultural Work of Early Theatre’, in R. Beadle and Alan J. Fletcher, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (2nd edition, CUP, 2007/8).
- He is currently editing The Oxford Anthology of Renaissance Literature and co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature, with Elaine Treharne.
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