Professor David Norbrook

I was Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College from 1978 to 1998, Professor of English at the University of Maryland from 1999 to 2002, and Merton Professor of English Literature between 2002 and 2014. I was founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies, which organized, amongst other things, a conference on Warden Henry Savile. From the beginning a central research interest has been the relations between early modern literature, history and politics, with further interests in women’s writing and in neo-Latin literature. I also work on Scottish poetry, especially Hugh MacDiarmid. I am currently completing an edition and a biography of the 17th-century woman writer Lucy Hutchinson.