Staff Profile:Professor Grace Ioppolo

Name:

Professor Grace Ioppolo

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

Within SEAL I convene modules in:

• Shakespeare
• Modern Drama
• Shakespeare and Gender
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Modern American Drama

I have also contributed to courses in:

• Women's Writing
• Languages of Literature
• What Kind of Text is This?

Areas of Interest:

My primary research interest is Shakespearean and early modern drama, especially in terms of manuscript and textual study and theatre history.I have also developed a research interest in those areas in which I teach, particularly gender and cultural studies. I continue to have a strong interest in authors and their manuscripts.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Recent publications reflectmy interests and include:

• Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson and Middleton: Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse (Routledge, 2006).
• Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing, British Library Press, 2007.

I have also published

• Revising Shakespeare (Harvard University Press, 1991),
• Routledge Literary Sourcebooks: King Lear (Routledge, 2003).
• English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, Volume 11: Manuscripts and their Makers in the English Renaissance, British Library Press, 2002.
• Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honour of R. A. Foakes(University of Delaware Press, 2000).
• Hengist, King of Kent by Thomas Middleton(Oxford University Press, 2004), part of the Malone Society Reprint series.

I am also

• the founder and director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, co-sponsored by the University of Reading and King's College London's Centre for Computing in the Humanities, which will make the single largest manuscript collection on early modern English theatre production and performance available as an electronic archive and website.
• The General Editor of the forthcoming 10-volume OUP edition of The Complete Works of Thomas Heywood.

In 2008 Grace Ioppolo received the student-nominated Excellence
in Teaching Award for the Division of Arts and Humanities.