David Fuller

Biography	David Fuller is Emeritus Professor of English and former Chairman of the Department of English Studies. From 2002 to 2007 he was also the University’s Public Orator. He is the author of "Blake's Heroic Argument" (Routledge, 1988), "James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’" (Harvester, 1992), "Signs of Grace" (Cassell, 1995, with David Brown), "The Life in the Sonnets, with a complete recording of the poems", in the series ‘Shakespeare Now!’ (Bloomsbury, 2011), and "Shakespeare and the Romantics" in the series ‘Oxford Shakespeare Topics’ (OUP, 2021). He edited "Tamburlaine the Great" for the Clarendon Press complete works of Marlowe (Oxford, 1998), and "William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose" (Longman Annotated Texts, 2000, 2008). His edition (with Corinne Saunders) of "Pearl, modernized by Victor Watts", was published by Enitharmon (2005). He has co-edited (with Patricia Waugh) "The Arts and Sciences of Criticism" (Oxford, 1999), (with Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton) "The Recovery of Beauty" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and (also with Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton) "The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). He has written essays on a range of poetry, drama and novels from medieval to contemporary, including work on Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Shelley, Keats, T. S. Eliot, William Empson, the theory and practice of criticism, and most recently ‘The Sonnet’ in Wolfgang Görtschacher and David Malcolm (ed.), "A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015" (Wiley Blackwell, 2021). He trained as a Musicologist, writes on opera and ballet, and is currently working on "Shakespeare and Ballet: Gender, Sexuality, Race and Politics on Stage" (to be published by Bloomsbury, 2025).
Research Interests	Blake and poetry of the Romantic period Elizabethan drama (Marlowe and Shakespeare) modernism, especially Joyce and T.S. Eliot

Biography

David Fuller is Emeritus Professor of English and former Chairman of the Department of English Studies. From 2002 to 2007 he was also the University’s Public Orator. He is the author of "Blake's Heroic Argument" (Routledge, 1988), "James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’" (Harvester, 1992), "Signs of Grace" (Cassell, 1995, with David Brown), "The Life in the Sonnets, with a complete recording of the poems", in the series ‘Shakespeare Now!’ (Bloomsbury, 2011), and "Shakespeare and the Romantics" in the series ‘Oxford Shakespeare Topics’ (OUP, 2021). He edited "Tamburlaine the Great" for the Clarendon Press complete works of Marlowe (Oxford, 1998), and "William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose" (Longman Annotated Texts, 2000, 2008). His edition (with Corinne Saunders) of "Pearl, modernized by Victor Watts", was published by Enitharmon (2005). He has co-edited (with Patricia Waugh) "The Arts and Sciences of Criticism" (Oxford, 1999), (with Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton) "The Recovery of Beauty" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and (also with Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton) "The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). He has written essays on a range of poetry, drama and novels from medieval to contemporary, including work on Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Shelley, Keats, T. S. Eliot, William Empson, the theory and practice of criticism, and most recently ‘The Sonnet’ in Wolfgang Görtschacher and David Malcolm (ed.), "A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015" (Wiley Blackwell, 2021). He trained as a Musicologist, writes on opera and ballet, and is currently working on "Shakespeare and Ballet: Gender, Sexuality, Race and Politics on Stage" (to be published by Bloomsbury, 2025).

Research Interests

Blake and poetry of the Romantic period
Elizabethan drama (Marlowe and Shakespeare)
modernism, especially Joyce and T.S. Eliot