Greg Walker

Professor Greg Walker (he/him) is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Greg is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the English Association, the Society of Antiquaries, the Agder Academy of Arts and Sciences (Norway), and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an elected member of the Academia Europaea. He was Chair of the REF 2021 sub-panel for English Language and Literature. He is co-editor of the Oxford Textual Perspectives monograph series and was co-editor of the series Studies in European Cultural Transition (Ashgate). He teaches courses on Medieval Literature and Shakespeare, with a focus on the representations of gender, class, and genre.

Key research interests include:

• Medieval and Tudor Drama: Textual and Performance History
• The Literature of the early Sixteenth Century: Skelton, Wyatt, Heywood, Bale, etc.
• The Henrician Reformation: Political and Literary Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII
• Chaucer and the Literature of the late Fourteenth Century
• Comedy: Medieval to Modern

Current and notable research projects/ publications:

• Carpenter, S., McGavin, J. J. (Ed.), & Walker, G. (Ed.) (2020). Early Performance: Courts and Audiences: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies. (1 ed.) (Variorum Collected Studies). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Early-Performance-Courts-and-Audiences-Shifting-Paradigms-in-Early-English-Drama-Studies/Carpenter-McGavin-Walker/p/book/9780367517236 
• Walker, G. (2020). John Heywood: Comedy and Survival in Tudor England. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851516.001.0001
• Walker, G. (2018). "Ye seem to have that ye have not": Religious belief and doubt in John Heywood’s The Four PP. Theta, XIII, 97-114. https://sceneeuropeenne.univ-tours.fr/theta/theta13