Members of the CTS

CTS's Director is Professor Gabriel Egan He is a Shakespearian, a (would-be) Digital Humanist, and a General Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 2016). His most recent monographs are Shakespeare and Ecocritical Theory (Arden Shakespeare, 2015) and The Struggle for Shakespeare's Text: Twentieth Century Editorial Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is a editing The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the New Variorum Shakespeare.


Professor Tim Fulford He is co-general editor of several electronic and print editions including the works of Robert Southey and Robert Bloomfield. He has published widely in the areas of Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century literature--the relationships between literature and colonialism and literature and science being areas of special interest--and his latest monograph is The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets (Cambridge University Press, 2013).


Professor Joe Phelan He is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature. His most recent book is The Music of Verse: Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and with John Woolford and Daniel Karlin he co-edited The Poems of Robert Browning (Longman, 2010).


Dr Takako Kato She is a Medievalist and Digital Humanist. Her forthcoming and recent publications are: The Malory Scribes: Producing a Manuscript of the 'Morte Darthur' (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming), Malory Project: A Digital Edition of the 'Morte Darthur'(Chicago: Loyola University, 2011), and The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 (Leicester: University of Leicester, 2010).


Prof Siobhan Keenan She is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature and the author of Travelling Players in Shakespeare's England (2002) and Renaissance Literature (2008). She recently edited The Emperor's Favourite for the Malone Society (2010) and her most recent book is a monograph on Acting Companies in Shakespeare's London for the Arden Shakesepare (published in 2014).


Dr Deborah Mutch She is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and her primary research focus is the British socialist periodical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and specifically the fiction published within the periodicals. She has published English Socialist Periodicals, 1880-1900 with Ashgate (2005) along with a number of articles on socialist fiction and published a five-volume major works project, British Socialist Fiction, 1884-1914 with Pickering and Chatto in 2013.


Dr Alice Wood is a Lecturer in English Literature and works in modernist studies. She is the author of Virginia Woolf's Late Cultural Criticism (Bloomsbury, 2013), a genetic study of Woolf's late works. Her latest project explores the treatment and reception of modernism in interwar women's magazines.

Alice Woods


Dr Paul Brown is the "New Oxford Shakespeare Postdoctoral Research Associate", funded by the Modern Humanities Research Association to work on the completion of this landmark edition of the complete works of Shakespeare. Dr Brown holds a PhD in theatre history from De Montfort University.

Paul Brown


Dr Deborah Gerrard She is Senior Research Fellow in the CTS, working on the influence of the late-Victorian mystical evolutionary socialist, Edward Carpenter, on Virginia Woolf. Her PhD was on Storm Jameson’s dialogue with modernism.

Debbie Gerrard


Dr Phil Tromans He is a Senior Research Fellow in the CTS, writing a monograph called Advertising America based on his recent PhD on 16th-century English books about New World voyages and discoveries. His expertise encompasses the 16th-century book trade and all aspects of analytical, descriptive, historical, and textual bibliography.

Phil


Dr David Hucklesby teaches English at De Montfort and wrote his PhD thesis on the relationships between emergent technologies and innovation in the print novel during two time periods: the mid-to-late 20th century (with a specific focus on B. S. Johnson and Ann Quin) and the 21st century (including Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer).

David Hucklesby


Sally King She is research student completing a PhD on adaptations of fairy tales and exploring computational approaches to the analysis of literary adaptation.

Sally King


Dimitrios Foukis is a research student with a keen interest in computational intelligence, cognitive science and (recently) the application of computational methods in textual analysis. His PhD aims to build a fuzzy-based prototype model reshaping canons in terms of Shakespeareness and the more general so-called "Problem E (English)".

Dimitrios Foukakis


Eddie Burton is a research student working the philosophical problem of knowledge that are explored in Shakespeare's play Hamlet and other plays of that time.

Eddie Burton


Cassandra Hunter is a research student working on the creation and reception of Middle English romances, with special interest in the manuscript British Library manuscript "Harley 3810/1" and related manuscripts.

Cassandra Hunter


Kyonnah Price is a freelance XML encoder whom the Centre for Textual Studies has employed extensively on the "Shakespeare's Early Editions" project (funded by the AHRC) and the New Oxford Shakespeare. She hold BA and MA degrees from De Montfort University.

Kyonnah Price


Carys Hudson is reading "BA English and Film Studies" at De Monfort University with an interest in the canonical origins of texts and archival frameworks that accompany their creation. She is employed as a Frontrunner intern on the New Oxford Shakespeare project.

Carys Hudson


Jessica Samuel is reading "BA English" at De Monfort University with special interests in early modern theatre, modernism, and contemporary fiction. She is employed as a Frontrunner intern on the New Oxford Shakespeare project.

Jessica Samuel


Affiliates of the CTS

The Centre for Textual The CTS has formal and informal links with other research centres for textual study and wishes to develop new links with any organizations involved in investigations into primary documents for literary and historical research and/or their presentation to modern readers in digital form. Our current affiliates are listed below and links to their websites are on the left:

The Institute for Textual Study and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) at the University of Birmingham under the direction of Professor David Parker. ITSEE specializes in work on manuscripts, especially of early religious texts.

The Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC) at the University of Newcastle in Australia under the direction of Professor Hugh Craig. CLLC specializes in computational stylistics.

The Australian Scholarly Editions Centre (ASEC) at the University of New South Wales under the direction of Professor Paul Eggert. ASEC specializes in the scholarly editing of Australian literature.

The Centre for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (CTSDH) at Loyola University in Chicago under the co-direction of Professors Steven E. Jones and George K. Thiruvathukal. CTSDH undertakes textual/pictorial digitization projects but also has an inter-disciplinary wing working on the hardware/software interface and its effect on creative activity.