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Dr Bill Angus BA(Hons), MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities Media and Creative CommBA (Hons) English (Tees.); MA Literary Studies: Writing, Memory, Culture, PhD Renaissance Drama (Newcastle.)
Bill taught for nine years at various UK universities, including Birmingham, Newcastle, Hull, and Buckingham before coming to Massey in 2013. He currently lectures in Shakespeare (139.211), Writing Shakespeare's England (139.306), Early Modern Drama: Form and Performance (139.728) and Romantic Writing: Self and Nature (139.202).
He has published two monographs, Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson (2016) and Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre (2018), and an edited collection, Reading the Road from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways (2019).
Bill's latest monograph, The Parting of the Ways: Crossroads in Early Modern Culture is forthcoming in 2021 with Edinburgh University press. This considers the crossroads as a site with transformative power, a place of spiritual binding, and a space between worlds, in early modern and other cultures, encompassing histories of wandering, place magic, judicial execution, regulation of burial, religious ritual, and liminality.
Also forthcoming this year is Poison on the Renaissance Stage, an edited collection of essays to be published by Manchester University Press.
Bill is an active Early Modern scholar with varied interests in English Literature and a long record of teaching across the full English curriculum.
Professional
Contact details
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Ph: 84499
Location: 4.50, SGP
Campus: Turitea
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - University of Teesside (2001)
- Master of Arts - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (2002)
- Doctor of Philosophy - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (2007)
Prizes and Awards
- Massey University Research Fund 2017 ($3,000) - MURF (2017)
Research Expertise
Research Interests
Bill's field of original research is the intersection of early modern literature and culture, where literary trends reveal historical realities. His two main research interests so far have encompassed the relationship between metadrama and the insidious figure of the informer and contemporary literary depictions of physical crossroads as places of transformation and binding.
His teaching and supervisory interests are in drama and other literatures centred around the era of the Elizabethan and Stuart monarchies, 1558-1714, and is looking forward to welcoming research proposals in these broad areas.
Research Opportunities
- All research (At any time) I am interested in supervising a very broad range of literary and theoretical projects, with a preference for those centred around the Early Modern period
Area of Expertise
Field of research codes
British and Irish Literature (200503):
Comparative Literature Studies (200524):
Cultural Studies (200200):
History And Archaeology (210000):
Languages, Communication And Culture (200000):
Literary Studies (200500):
Literary Studies not elsewhere classified (200599):
Literary Theory (200525):
North American Literature (200506):
Other European Literature (200515):
Other Language, Literature and Culture (209900):
Other Literatures in English (200508)
Keywords
Early Modern drama and literature.
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Metadrama
Crossroads
Research Projects
Summary of Research Projects
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Research Outputs
Journal
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Book
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Conference
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[Conference Paper]Authored by: Angus, W.
Other
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Consultancy and Languages
Consultancy
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2010-present
- Journal: Comparative Drama
Expert external reader -
Jan 2017-present
- Cahiers Élisabéthains
Reviewer
Teaching and Supervision
Summary of Doctoral Supervision
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Co-supervisor | 1 | 0 |
Current Doctoral Supervision
Co-supervisor of:
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Tania-Maree Kelly Roxborogh
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Doctor of Philosophy
Mana Orite - ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and Mātauranga Māori - Strategies to assist English teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand decolonize the teaching of Shakespeare
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