Prof Neil Rhodes

Professor

Researcher profile

Email

nppr@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 101 (Fridays only)

Location

Kennedy Hall

 

Biography

Neil Rhodes was a Scholar of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he was awarded the degrees of MA and DPhil and was a Newdigate prizewinner. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Granada, and Liverpool Hope University, and joint General Editor with Andrew Hadfield of the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations. From 2014-16 he held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a book entitled Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England, published by Oxford University Press in 2018. His teaching is principally in the fields of English Renaissance literature.

Research areas

Neil has three research interests at present. First, translation and the development of the vernacular in early modern England. Second, sound and the oral/aural dimensions of literature in English, especially the early modern period; this develops from a long-standing interest in rhetoric and the media in history. Third, popular culture and its relationship to elite forms of culture in Elizabethan England.

His PhD students have received ORS and Commonwealth scholarships and AHRC and Carnegie Caledonian awards, and more recently, awards from the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities. Students working with Neil were awarded the St Leonard's College Prize Lectures in 2016 and 2017.  He welcomes enquiries from students who are considering postgraduate research in any of the areas described above.

PhD supervision

• Elena Spinelli
• Drew Keane
• Isabel Dollar

Selected publications

• Erasmus in English, 1523-1584

  Rhodes, N. P. P., Davis, A. L., Kendal, G. M. & Archer, H., 2021, (In preparation) MHRA.

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• Open access

  Before we sleep: Macbeth and the curtain lecture

  Rhodes, N., 2020, In: Shakespeare Survey. 73, p. 107-118

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Punctuation as rhetorical notation? From colon to semicolon

  Rhodes, N., 2019, In: Huntington Library Quarterly. 82, 1, p. 87-106

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Common: the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England

  Rhodes, N., 26 Apr 2018, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 345 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Translation

  Rhodes, N. P. P., 2018, Editing Early Modern Texts: A Handbook. Phillips, H. & Williams, C. B. (eds.). Ashgate

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 'Time'

  Rhodes, N., 2015, The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England. Ashgate, p. 283-94

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Afterword

  Rhodes, N., Jan 2015, Translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 217-226

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Pure and common Greek in early Tudor England

  Rhodes, N. P. P., 2015, The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France 1500-1660. Demetriou, T. & Tomlinson, R. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 54-70 17 p. (Early modern literature in history).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• English Renaissance Translation Theory

  Rhodes, N. (ed.), Kendal, G. (ed.) & Wilson, L. (ed.), 2013, London: Modern Humanities Research Association. 543 p. (MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations; vol. 9)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• Open access

  Marlowe and the Greeks

  Rhodes, N., 2013, In: Renaissance Studies. 27, 2, p. 199-218

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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