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Dr Gabriel Egan
Tel: +44 01509 222896
Role: Reader in Shakespeare Studies
Email: G.Egan@lboro.ac.uk
QQ104, John Hardie Building, East Park
I am on Study Leave until 10 February 2012, working on a project to develop editorial procedures for dealing with the press variants in early editions of Shakespeare. On 14-15 March I will address the symposium 'Sustainability and Eco-Criticism' at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. At the 58th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Washington DC, 22-24 March 2012, I will present a paper called "Testing competing hypotheses about compositorial stints in early printed books using stand-off markup XML". From September 2011 to September 2013 I am Principal Investigator on a project called "Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT)" that aims to encourage tourists to learn about and explore the sites of early modern London theatres, which is funded by a third of a million pounds from the AHRC.
I serve as Library Liaison and Green Rep for the Department. Except in my teaching of hand-printing with an Albion iron press, I use no paper and I encourage others to cut down their consumption of dead trees in the classroom and the office. I am a technical reviewer for the peer review college of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, 2008-) and a funding bids assessor for the Joint Information System Committee (JISC) Digitization Project (2006-). I also serve on the Steering Group of JISC's OAPEN-UK project which aims to enable the Open Access publication of scholarly monographs that will be free at the point of delivery, and I chair the JISC Historic Book Advisory Board. I previously served on the JISC E-Books Working Group (2005-7).
I edit two academic journals: Theatre Notebook (for the
Society for Theatre Research) with Trevor R. Griffiths
(Middlesex University) and Sarah McCleave (Queen's University Belfast) and Shakespeare (for the British Shakespeare
Association and Routledge) with Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University), Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter (Sheffield Hallam University), and Brett D. Hirsch. I supervise four research students: Phil Tromans working on 16th-century writings about the New World, Kate Woods on the psychodynamics of early-modern writings about witchcraft, Jill Williams working in the exciting and emergent field of New Economic Criticism of early-modern theatre and plays, and Nicola Boyle writing a history of the Lady Elizabeth's men's playing company. I welcome enquiries from prospective students wishing to research in my areas
of expertise.
