Dr Huw Griffiths
A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9351 2065 |
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Biographical details
My research interests lie in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature and culture, with a focus on Shakespearean drama. Specific interests include: constructions of the early modern nation; sovereignty; Restoration and eighteenth-century adaptations of Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists; contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays. Other interests include twentieth-century and contemporary British poetry, and contemporary gay fiction.
Research interests
Teaching and supervision
I teach widely in early modern literature, especially drama, and in twentieth-century British poetry; I would welcome research students with similar or related interests.
Current research students
Project title | Research student |
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Censorship, Collaboration, and the Construction of Authorship in Early Modern Theatre | Gabriella EDELSTEIN |
Appearance and Identity in Renaissance Drama | Ruby KILROY |
Current projects
Shakespeare's Body Parts
In this project, I examine body parts in Shakespeare’s English history plays: how they are represented and, particularly, how they are implicated in the discourses and practices of sovereign power.
Love, Desire, and Friendship Between Men in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Adaptations of Shakespeare
In this project, I aim to make an intervention into histories of male-male relationships, variously construed as either homosocial or homoerotic, through analyzing Restoration and early eighteenth-century adaptations of earlier drama by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Selected grants
2016
- Words Make Things Happen: Transforming Shakespeare in the English Curriculum; Griffiths H, Curwood J, O'Grady A; DVC Education/Large Educational Innovation Grant.
2015
- Cultures of Modernities in the Global Medieval and Pre-Modern World; Amer S, Sirantoine H, Klein E, Anstey P, Gagne J, Borghesi F, Wooding J, Shaw J, Griffiths H; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/SSSHARC Collaborative Projects Support Scheme.
2012
- Putting Periodisation to Use: Exploring the Limits of Early Modernity; Gagne J, Gal O, Gaukroger S, Griffiths H, Maddox A, McIlvenna U, Parsons N, Semler L; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme.
Selected publications & creative works
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Shakespeare Hamlet: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
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