TEACHING

Alex Davis has supervised PhDs on representations of disease in early modern England; on drama and national identity; Milton; and on sixteenth-century poetry and the history of penance. He would welcome applications from students interested in researching any aspect of the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or on the relationship between the medieval and the early modern.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Renaissance Historical Fiction: Sidney, Deloney, Nashe (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2011)

Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003). More information...

Articles

'Revolution by Degrees: Philip Sidney and Gradatio', Modern Philology, 108: 4 (2011), pp. 488-506

'Futures Past: John Lyly's Visions of History in Euphues and His England', Cahiers Élisabéthains 76 (2009), pp. 1-10

'Living in the Past: Thebes, Periodization, and the Two Noble Kinsmen', Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 40: 1 (2010), pp. 173-95, special issue on 'Premodern Shakespeares' edited by James Simpson and Sarah Beckwith

'"The Web of His Story": Narrating Miso's Poem and Mopsa's Tale in Book 2 of the New Arcadia', Sidney Journal, 26: 2 (2009), pp. 49-64

'Erotic Historiography: Writing the Self and History in the Twelfth Century and the Renaissance', in The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain, eds. Amanda Hopkins and Cory Rushton (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007), pp. 164-75.

'Shakespeare's Clowns' in Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture, eds. Stuart Gillespie and Neil Rhodes (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2006), pp. 67-91

'Savagery and Civility and Popular Literature: Richard Johnson's Tom a Lincolne', Studies in Philology, 103 (2006), pp. 264-80

'Chapbooks', in David Scott Kastan, general editor, The Oxford Encyclopaedia of British Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 5 volumes, 1: 431-4.

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Dr Alex Davis

Education and Experience

Alex Davis received his BA from the University of Oxford, and an MA and PhD from the University of London. His doctoral research dealt with representations of chivalry in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture and how these have subsequently figured in attempts to present the 'early modern' period as a break with the medieval past.

Research Interests

Alex is a specialist in the literature and culture of the English Renaissance. His research has focused on Renaissance romance and popular culture, and on the question of how writers and scholars have framed the period's relationship to the Middle Ages. He is the author of Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (2003) and Renaissance Historical Fiction (2011).

PhD Supervision

Katherine Cooper, Toria Johnson, Zinovia Pissari

Dr Alex Davis

Contact information

Room: KH 004
Phone: 2657
ald3@st-andrews.ac.uk

Consultation hours:
By appointment. On research leave

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