Professor Gabriel Egan

I am Director of DMU's:

Centre for Textual Studies http://cts.dmu.ac.uk

Institute of English https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/institute-of-english

Research Theme 'Living in a Digital Society'

I am one of the General Editors of the New Oxford Shakespeare and a co-editor of the journals Shakespeare (for the British Shakespeare Association) and Theatre Notebook (for the Society for Theatre Research). I teach computational approaches to literary-historical textual analysis and the art of letter-press printing.

I welcome applications from PhD candidates wanting to undertake research on Shakespeare, early modern theatre history, computational approaches to textual analysis, editing, and cultural theory.

Centre for Textual Studies

Click here for a full listing of Gabriel Egan‘s publications and outputs.

SCHOLARLY EDITION The New Oxford Shakespeare, 6 volumes (Oxford University Press, 2016-21)

JOURNAL ARTICLE "Attributing the Authorship of the Henry VI Plays by Word Adjacency" Shakespeare Quarterly 67 (2016): 232-56

MONOGRAPH Shakespeare and Ecocritical Theory (Arden Shakespeare, 2015)

MONOGRAPH The Struggle for Shakespeare's Text: Twentieth Century Editorial Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Computational stylistics; 16th-17th century plays in performance and as print editions

BA, MA, and PhD

Textual Studies Using Computers

Text Technologies

I chair the Advisory Board of Jisc Historical Texts, a UK state-owned rival to ProQuest's Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Gale Cengage's Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) databases, based on the same images and data but cheaper and better.

I am an Arts and Humanities Research Council Strategic Reviewer

Shakespeare Society of America, 2004-, The largest Shakespeare society in the world

British Shakespeare Association, 2002-, Britain's Shakespeare association of which I am a trustee

Renaissance Society of America, 2006-, The world's largest society for Renaissance studies

Malone Society, 1996-, A small learned society dedicated to the publication of materials for the study of English Renaissance drama

Society for Theatre Society, 2002-, A small learned society dedicated to the study of the history and technique of British Theatre

The Tony Hancock Appreciation Society, 1998-. A cultural and discussion group dedicated to the betterment of mankind

I am Co-Investigator on the £252,557 AHRC-funded research project 'Transforming Middlemarch' (2022-23) that is making an online multimedia 'genetic' edition of Andrew Davies's groundbreaking 1994 adaptation of George Eliot's novel.

I was Principal Investigator on the £312,012 AHRC-funded research "Shakespeare's Early Editions (SEE)" (which ran from 2016 to 2018) that explored the differences between the quarto and Folio versions of his plays to see if they can be quantified and explained in terms of textual corruption and authorial and non-authorial revision.

I was Principal Investigator on the two-year project "Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT)" (running from 2011 to 2013) which was a collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum to get tourists walking around and learning about the London sites where there were theatres 400 years ago. The project had £331,000 of Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding.

As Principal Investigator on the project "Quantitative Methods for Literary and Historical Scholarship" (funded by the British Academy Talent Development Award number TDA21\210025) I led a digital skills training event at University of Leeds on 21-22 July 2022 and will lead another at De Montfort University on 6-7 September 2022. See http://cts.dmu.ac.uk/events/QMLHS for details.

I will give a paper at the International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon (19-22 July 2022) on the topic of "Sir Thomas More: Editing a manuscript play within an XML edition created for printed plays" in the seminar "Editorial Theory and Practice in the Digital Era"

 

Too many to list: see my website for all past papers (available in full text download).

All my outputs are in DORA, the university's Institutional Repository

I read prospective journal articles for Shakespeare Quarterly, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Review of English Studies, and others.

I read proposals for monographs and scholarly editions for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Manchester University Press, Routledge, and others.

Eddie Burton "The Philosophies of Hamlet", part-time, 1st supervisor

See 'Projects' above