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Prof. Philip Schwyzer
Department of English College of Humanities University of Exeter
Date of Birth : 19 April 1970
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
B.A., English (Highest Honours), University of California, Berkeley, 1992
M.Phil, English Studies 1500-1660, Oxon., 1995
Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1999 – 2001: Junior Research Fellow in English, Hertford College, Oxford
2001- 2006: Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
2006-8: Senior Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
2008-11: Associate Professor in English, University of Exeter
2011-: Professor of Renaissance Literature, University of Exeter
EXTERNAL EXAMINING
2006: MLitt in English (Research), University of Newcastle. 2010: PhD in English, University of St. Andrews.
POSTGRADUATE PERSONNEL
PhD students supervised:
Samir al-Jasim. The Application of Possible Worlds Theory to Renaissance Drama.
Mohamed Elaskary: The Moor in Renaissance Drama. PhD 2008.
Briony Frost: Becoming a King’s Man: PhD 2012.
Min-Ju Wu. Shakespeare’s Late Plays in their Jacobean Context.
Samantha Hutchins-Frenee: The Representation of Boudica in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature. PhD 2009.
Claire Huxham: Death and the Uncanny in Renaissance Drama. MPhil 2009.
Zhiyan Zhang. Death and Memory in Shakespeare’s Plays. PhD 2012.
Post-Doctoral Assistants:
Dr. Naomi Howell, Associate Research Fellow in Medieval Studies (Leverhulme Research Project, “Speaking with the Dead,” 2011-14).
ADMINISTRATION
College
2012- Director, Centre for Early Modern Studies 2011 Head of English (7/2011-12/2011) 2010- Academic Lead 2008- Head of Medieval and Renaissance Research Group 2006-2007 Head of Working Party on the new English Team Skills programme 2002-2004 Website Manager for School of English 2002-2004 Visiting Speakers (English) Co-ordinator 2001-2006 Library Liaison
PUBLICATIONS
Books
1. Philip Schwyzer, Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). x + 194 pp. 2. Philip Schwyzer and Simon Mealor, eds., Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). x + 232 pp. I am sole author of the Introduction, pp. 1-7. 3. Philip Schwyzer, Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), xii + 227 pp. 4. Willy Maley and Philip Schwyzer, Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), xi + 248 pp. I am co-author of the Introduction, pp. 1-5, and sole author of Chapter 2, pp. 21-41. 5. Philip Schwzer (ed), Humphrey Llwyd, The Breviary of Britain (1573), with selections from The History of Cambria (1584) , MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations, Vol. 5 (London: MHRA, 2011). 6. Philip Schwyzer, Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), x + 247 pp.
Chapters in Books
*7. Philip Schwyzer, ‘A Map of Greater Cambria’ in Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain ed. Andrew Gordon and Bernhard Klein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 35-44.
*8. Philip Schwyzer, ‘British History and "British History": The Same Old Story?’, in British Identities and English Renaissance Literature , ed. David Baker and Willy Maley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 11-23.
9. Philip Schwyzer, ‘John Higgins,’ ‘Arthur Kelton’, and ‘Thomas Phaer’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). 10. Philip Schwyzer, ‘ Thomas Phaer’, Dictionary of British Classicists, 1500- (Thoemmes Continuum, 2004).
*11. Philip Schwyzer, ‘Mummy is Become Merchandise: Literature and the Anglo- Egyptian Mummy Trade in the Seventeenth Century’ in Re-Orienting the Renaissance , ed. Gerald Maclean (London: Palgrave, 2005), pp. 66-87.
*12. Philip Schwyzer, ‘King Lear and the Jacobean Union Controversy’ in Accession of James I: Historical and Cultural Consequences, edited by Glenn Burgess, Rowland Wymer, and Jason Lawrence (London: Palgrave, 2006), pp. 34-47.
13. Philip Schwyzer, ‘John Leland and His Heirs: The Topography of England’ in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature , eds. Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). 14. Philip Schwyzer, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Welshman: Shakespeare and Some Contemporaries’ in Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly, ed. Willy Maley and Philip Schwyzer (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010). 15. Philip Schwyzer, ‘Archipelagic History’ in The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed’s Chronicles , ed. Ian Archer, Felicity Heal, and Paulina Kewes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) 16. Philip Schwyzer, ‘Paranoid History: John Bale’s King Johan ’ in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama , ed. Tom Betteridge and Greg Walker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Articles in Refereed Journals
*17. Philip Schwyzer, ‘Summer Fruit and Autumn Leaves: Thomas Nashe in 1593’, English Literary Renaissance 24 (1994), pp. 583-619.
*18. Philip Schwyzer, Purity and Danger on the West Bank of the Severn: The Cultural Geography of A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634 ’, Representations 60 (1997), pp. 22-48.
*19. Philip Schwyzer, ‘The Scouring of the White Horse: Archaeology, Identity, and "Heritage"’, Representations 65 (1999), pp. 42-62.
*20. Philip Schwyzer, ‘The Bride on the Border: Women and the Reproduction of Ethnicity in the Early Modern British Isles’, European Journal of Cultural Studies 5, 2002.
*21. Philip Schwyzer, ‘The Beauties of the Land: Bale’s Books, Aske’s Abbeys, and the Aesthetics of Nationhood’ Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004), pp. 99-125. [Winner of the 2005 William Nelson Prize of the Renaissance Society of America.]
*22. Philip Schwyzer, ‘Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict: From St. Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland’, Representations 95 (2006), pp. 1-26.
- 23. Philip Schwyzer , ‘Lees and Moonshine: Remembering Richard III, 1485-1635’, Renaissance Quarterly 63 (2010), pp. 850-83.
24. Philip Schwyzer , ‘Trophies, Traces, Relics and Props: The Untimely Objects of Richard III ’, Shakespeare Quarterly 63 (2012), pp. 297-327.
