Staff membership
Dr Gianna Bouchard is Principal Lecturer in Drama and her current research focuses on contemporary theatre and performance, experimental theatre, live art, interdisciplinary arts practice and critical theory. Her PhD, completed in 2006, was titled 'Performing the Anatomised Body' and interrogated the interface between the performed body and the anatomised body, through an examination of Renaissance anatomical dissection, medical discourse and contemporary theatre practice.
She has contributed to the edited collection, 'Modes of Spectating' by Alison Oddey and Christine White, published in April 2009 by Intellect, and 'Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre', published by Amsterdam University Press, 2008. She has also published in 'Performance Research Journal'.
She has contributed to the edited collection, 'Modes of Spectating' by Alison Oddey and Christine White, published in April 2009 by Intellect, and 'Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre', published by Amsterdam University Press, 2008. She has also published in 'Performance Research Journal'.
Professor Sarah Annes Brown has published widely on the reception of Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers, and on their relationship with film, popular culture, science fiction and information technology as well as with mainstream literature. Her recent publications include 'Shaping Fantasies: Shakespeare's Magic in Popular Culture' (Shakespeare 2009) and 'Classics Reanimated: Ted Hughes and Metatranslation' (Ted Hughes and the Classics, ed. Roger Rees, OUP 2009).She is currently completing a monograph, A Familiar Compound Ghost: Allusion and the Uncanny for Manchester University Press.
Together with Andrew Taylor, she is co-editing a two volume collection of translations of Ovid for the MHRA series, 'Tudor & Stuart Translations'. Sarah edits the Duckworth series 'Classical Diaspora' and serves on the editorial board of 'A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Mythology', an online project based at L'Institut de Recherchesur la Renaissance, l'AgeClassique et les Lumières at Montepellier III.
Professor Eugene Giddens is the Skinner-Young Professor in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature and has particular expertise in textual studies. He is a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded 'Complete Works of James Shirley'.
Five PhD students currently work with him on Renaissance topics.
Dr Alison Searle is a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded 'Complete Works of James Shirley', (forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2015). She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies.
Her research interests include drama, religion and letters during the English Renaissance. In her first monograph, 'The Eyes of Your Heart': Literary and Theological Trajectories of Imagining Biblically (Paternoster, 2008), she developed a biblical theory of the imagination, drawing on Renaissance authors such as John Bunyan and Samuel Rutherford. She is currently editing James Shirley's play, 'The Sisters' (1642), for Oxford University Press.
Professor Rowland Wymer has published widely on Renaissance literature but his research in this area is increasingly informed by his interests in 20th and 21st Century literature and film. His latest book, a study of the films of Derek Jarman, places particular emphasis on the centrality of Renaissance art and literature for Jarman, a film maker whose work repeatedly plays with the interface between past and present.
He is currently preparing an edition of 'The Witch of Edmonton' for the Oxford Complete Works of John Ford (ed. Brian Vickers).
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