David Norbrook
David Norbrook | |
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| Born | 1 June 1950 |
| Spouse | Sharon Achinstein |
| Family | Peter Achinstein (father-in-law) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Aberdeen Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Aberdeen Balliol College, Oxford |
| Thesis | Panegyrics of the monarch and its social context under Elizabeth I and James I (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Buxton Penry Williams |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Magdalen College, Oxford University of Maryland Merton College, Oxford |
David Norbrook (born 1 June 1950) is an Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.[1] He specializes in literature, politics and historiography in the early modern period, and in early modern women's writing. He teaches in literary theory and early modern texts, in early modern women writers, and in Shakespeare, Milton and Marvell.
Norbrook was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, the University of Aberdeen and Balliol College, Oxford. His doctoral thesis focused on Elizabethan and Jacobean monarchical panegyric and was supervised by John Buxton and Penry Williams.[2] He became fellow and tutor in English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1978 to 1998, and offered some support to the radical pressure group Oxford English Limited in the late 1980s.[3]
He was Professor of English at the University of Maryland from 1999 to 2002. He was Merton Professor of English Literature between 2002 and 2014, and was founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies.[1]
He is the author of Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance,[4] Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660,[5] and The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse.[6]
Norbrook is the general editor of a four-volume edition of the works of Lucy Hutchinson, a Republican chronicler of the English Civil War.[7]
Personal life
[edit]He is married to Sharon Achinstein Norbrook, Sir William Osler Professor of English at Oxford University; daughter of philosopher Peter Achinstein; and granddaughter of economist Asher Achinstein.[8][9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Professor David Norbrook". Merton College. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
- ^ Norbrook, David (2002). Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance (Revised ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. viii. ISBN 9780199247189.
- ^ Norbrook, David (October 1986). "Critical Faculties: A Response". News from Nowhere (2): 30–7.
- ^ Norbrook, David (2002). Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199247188.
- ^ Norbrook, David (2000). Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521785693.
- ^ Norbrook, David (2005). H. R. Woudhuysen (ed.). The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659. Penguin UK. ISBN 014191386X.
- ^ "Professor David Norbrook". University of Oxford. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
- ^ "Professor David Norbrook". Magdalen College.
I now live in Baltimore, USA, where my wife, Sharon Achinstein, teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
- ^ "ACHINSTEIN, Sharon 1963-". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ Pearce, Katie (28 October 2019). "Family Snapshots: Father/daughter professors share an academic home". Johns Hopkins University.
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