MA, BLitt (Oxford)

Professor of English Literature


Room: Hel 148

Email: rowland.wymer@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2041
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2041


Rowland Wymer's research activity

Rowlie teaches modules on Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Tragedy, and Renaissance poetry. He also has teaching interests in science fiction, film, and critical theory.

He joined the Department in 2004, having previously taught for many years at the University of Hull. His principal research interest has been in the drama of the Shakespeare period. His publications in this area include Suicide and Despair in the Jacobean Drama, Webster and Ford, and three co-edited collections of essays - Shakespeare and History, The Iconography of Power: Ideas and Images of Rulership on the English Renaissance Stage, and Neo-Historicism: Studies in Renaissance Literature, History and Politics. He is currently co-editing a further collection of essays on 1603: The Historical and Cultural Consequences of the Accession of James I. Until recently he was the editor of the electronic journal Renaissance Forum and he remains a member of the editorial board of Shakespeare Yearbook. Other research and teaching interests include film and science fiction, and he has recently completed a book on the film director Derek Jarman (Manchester University Press, 2005). He has supervised, or is currently supervising, PhDs on Robert Heinlein, Northrop Frye, Philip K. Dick, Generational Conflict in English Renaissance Drama, Comic Representations of the Supernatural in English Renaissance Drama, The Blood Relationship in Shakespearean Tragedy, Anne Vaughan Locke, and the British Art Cinema.

Rowlie is keen to supervise research in the areas of:

• Shakespeare and Renaissance drama
• Science fiction
• The films and writings of Derek Jarman
• Critical theory

For more information please see Rowland Wymer's research activity page.

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