Dr Richard Meek
| Biography | Dr Meek's main research interests are in Shakespeare and early modern literature, ekphrasis and the relationship between visual and verbal modes of representation, and the history of emotion. Dr Meek has recently completed his second monograph – a study of the representation and development of sympathy in the years 1580-1640, entitled Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He has co-edited three collections of essays with Manchester University Press, including most recently Ekphrastic Encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts (2019). In 2017 he held a International Visitor Fellowship at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in Perth, Australia, which included giving the opening keynote lecture at the conference 'Hamlet and Emotions: Then and Now'. |
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| Teaching and Learning | Undergraduate - Re-Visioning Shakespeare - Travels in Text and Time - Love and Desire in Renaissance Literature - Shakespeare - Speaking Pictures: Literature and the Visual Arts Postgraduate - Medieval and Renaissance Intertextualities (MA module) - Victorian Literature and the Visual Arts (MA module) |
| Scopus Author ID | 26035629300 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Dr Meek is happy to supervise PhD students interested in Shakespeare and early modern literature; Shakespeare's afterlives; the history of emotion; and the relationship between visual and verbal art. Current PhD supervisions Andrew Hewitt, Thomas Hardy, Affect and Body Language (co-supervised with Jane Thomas) |