Professor Kevin Sharpe, BA MA DPhil (Oxford)
Leverhulme Research Professor and Professor of Renaissance Studies
It is with great sadness that the Department of English announces the loss of Professor Kevin Sharpe, who died peacefully on Saturday 5th November 2011.Tributes and messages of condolence can be read here |
'Reading, Society, and Politics in Early Modern England' co-edited by Kevin Sharpe
Research interests:
- Early modern British cultural and political history
- Early Modern British literature
- The history of the book and reading
- Early modern visual culture and politics
Kevin Sharpe's research focuses on early modern British literature, visual culture and history. He is the author and editor of 11 books, including The Personal Rule of Charles I (Yale 1995), Criticism and Compliment (Cambridge second edition, 2003), Reading Revolutions (Yale 2000), Remapping Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2000) and, with Steven Zwicker, Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2003).
Kevin is currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow and is currently writing a large study of Representations of Authority and Images of Power in England, 1500-1700 and editing a volume on Writing Lives in early Modern England.
A former visiting professor to Princeton, Stanford, The California Institute of Technology, The Australian National University and The Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Kevin is interested in advising and supervising students working on interdisciplinary approaches to Renaissance and early modern studies.
Publications:
(Recent publications)
Reading, Society, and Politics in Early Modern England, co-edited with S Zwicker (Cambridge University Press 2003)
Remapping Early Modern England: Studies in Political Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (Yale University Press, 2000)
'Restoration and Reconstitution: Politics, Society and Culture in the England of Charles II', in Painted Ladies, ed by C Mcleod and JM Alexander (National Portrait Gallery, 2001), pp 7-21