Maguire, Professor Laurie

Job Title: Professor of English Language and Literature, CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow
College: Magdalen
Period/ Subject: Early Modern

Email address: laurie.maguire@ell.ox.ac.uk 

Research Interests:

I am currently working on an interdisciplinary collaborative project with two Oxford colleagues: Felix Budelmann in Classics, and Robin Dunbar in Evolutionary Psychology. We are using Greek tragedy and Shakespearean drama to test a range of theories about audience response, from how audiences fill in gaps in order to create ‘character’ to how dramatists’ understanding of audiences’ mind-reading capacities influence how they structure plot or create ambiguity.
I have recently coupled a long-standing interest in the theatricality of early modern medicine with an equally long-standing interest in Shakespearean selfhood to look at two kinds of interiority: one which yields its secrets to surgeons’ anatomical dissection and one which does not.

Teaching Areas:

1509-1832

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