About
A brief description of who you are and what you do.
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You can update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘About’.
Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.
You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.
Research
Your current research, published research topics, projects and groups.
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Research groups
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Research interests
Add up to 5 research interests. The first 3 will appear in your staff profile next to your name. The full list will appear on your research page. Keep these brief and focus on the keywords people may use when searching for your work. Use a different line for each one.
In Pure (opens in a new tab), select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading 'Curriculum and research description', select 'Add profile information'. In the dropdown menu, select 'Research interests: use separate lines'.
Current research
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Describe your current research in 100 to 200 words. Write in the third person. Include broad key terms to help people discover your work, for example, “sustainability” or “fashion textiles”.
Research projects
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Publications
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Supervision
PhD Students
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Teaching
A short description of your teaching interests and responsibilities.
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Courses and modules
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External roles and responsibilities
These are the public-facing activities you’d like people to know about.
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Biography
I joined Southampton as Professor of English Studies in 2006, becoming founder/director of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture. For four years, I was Head of English, with the department enjoying great success in all the league tables. Prior to that I was at Queen Mary, University of London. I became Professor Emeritus in 2018, and Visiting Plumer Fellow (2018) at St Anne’s, University of Oxford.
I have served on the academic committee of Shakespeare’s Globe, London, and on the Boards of Directors of the English Shakespeare Company, and Nuffield Southampton Theatres. I am a longstanding member of the AHRC Peer Review College— a panel member and chair, and a Strategic Reviewer.
My writing combines standard archival academic research in the history and culture of Early Modern England with practical skills in performance. I have run a professional theatre company and directed many early modern plays (Middleton, Webster and Shakespeare) with both student and professional actors. I am also a musician; I sing, and play the cello (ARCM performers), piano, and lute. My books (including The Works of Richard Edwards: Politics, Poetry and Performance in Early Modern England; Cymbeline: Constructions of Britain; and Shakespeare: a Beginner’s Guide) have been variously reviewed as ‘of interest to any humanities researcher’, ‘surprising but suggestive’, and ‘ebulliently pluralistic’.
I have a long-standing interest in applied theatre, both in education and in therapeutic settings. For many years, I ran an innovative module for undergraduates at Queen Mary, enabling them to lead practical performance and creative writing workshops centring on a Shakespeare play (usually King Lear) with whole, mixed-ability classes in local inner London primary and secondary schools. At Southampton, I have contributed to the Medical Humanities module for first year medical students by using The Winter’s Tale to inspire the students’ creative thinking about mental health, body language, and doctor/patient interactions.
You can update your biography section in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select your ‘Personal’ tab then ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading, and ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘Biography’. Aim for no more than 400 words.
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Prizes
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