BA (Clemson), PhD (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

Skinner-Young Professor in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature; Faculty Director of Research


Office Hours: Monday 9.00-10.00am and 4.00-5.00pm

Room: Hel 158

Email: eugene.giddens@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2965
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2965


Eugene Giddens' research activity

Eugene teaches Shakespeare, children's literature and the history of the book.

His research focuses on scholarly editing. With Teresa Grant (Warwick) and Barbara Ravelhofer (Durham), he is a General Editor of the AHRC-funded Complete Works of James Shirley (forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2015). He is also an Associate Editor on The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2011). He has edited, co-edited, or written the introductions for several early modern plays for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Penguin, and he is currently preparing a Revels edition of James Shirley's Hyde Park, and Timon of Athens for the Norton Shakespeare, ed. Stephen Greenblatt. Other projects include The Oxford Handbook on Ben Jonson (OUP, 2012) and (co-written with Zoe Jaques) Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: a Publishing History (Ashgate, 2013). He has also published articles on early modern masculinity and printing history, and his book How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

He has supervised four PhDs to completion and is currently first supervisor for PhD theses on the rhetoric of dance, play-text punctuation, early stage properties, and cultural tourism. He would welcome research students with historical approaches to Renaissance drama and children's literature, or those who would like to produce critical editions or study history of the book.

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