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Professor Gary Taylor to give Renaissance Lecture

Professor Gary Taylor, lecturer, writer and editor will give the Renaissance Lecture at the University of Kent on Wednesday 4 June.

Titled Our other Shakespeare; Thomas Middleton and what it means to be British, Professor Taylor's lecture will take place at 6pm in the Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, on the University's Canterbury Campus. There is disabled access to Keynes College and the lecture theatre. The free lecture is open to all.

Professor Taylor studied at the universities of Kansas and Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate in English. Since then, he has taught at Oxford University, the Catholic University of America, Brandeis University, the University of Alabama and Florida State University, where he became founder and first director of the interdisciplinary History of Text Technologies program.

He is also General Editor of the Oxford editions of Shakespeare's Complete Works (1986, 2005), Thomas Middleton's Collected Works (2007) and the Palgrave series Signs of Race (2005 - ). His other publications include a history of Shakespeare's reputation (Reinventing Shakespeare, 1989) and a theory of artistic reputations generally (Cultural Selection, 1996).

His Moment by Moment by Shakespeare (MacMillan, 1985) was the winner of a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book.

Contact: mediaoffice@kent.ac.uk

Story published at 4:50pm 30 May 2008