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.
Selected publications
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Erasmus in English, 1523-1584, Volume I: The Manual of a Christian Soldier and other writings
Davis, A. L. (Editor), Kendal, G. M. (Editor) & Rhodes, N. P. P. (Editor), 5 Jan 2023, Cambridge: MHRA. 453 p. (MHRA Tudor and Stuart translations; no. 26.1)Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition
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Erasmus in English, 1523-1584, Volume II: The Praise of Folly and other writings
Davis, A. L. (Editor), Kendal, G. M. (Editor) & Rhodes, N. (Editor), 5 Jan 2023, Cambridge: MHRA. 382 p. (MHRA Tudor and Stuart translations; no. 26.2)Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition
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Open access
Falstaff on tour: county, town and country in the late Elizabethan theatre
Rhodes, N., 1 Jun 2023, In: Renaissance Studies. 37, 3, p. 384-398 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Close reading: Romeo and Juliet 3.5.9-10
Rhodes, N., 15 Jul 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Shakespeare. Latest Articles, 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Before we sleep: Macbeth and the curtain lecture
Rhodes, N., 2020, In: Shakespeare Survey. 73, p. 107-118Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Punctuation as rhetorical notation? From colon to semicolon
Rhodes, N., 2019, In: Huntington Library Quarterly. 82, 1, p. 87-106Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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Translation
Rhodes, N. P. P., 2018, Editing Early Modern Texts: A Handbook. Phillips, H. & Williams, C. B. (eds.). AshgateResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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'Time'
Rhodes, N., 2015, The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England. Ashgate, p. 283-94Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Afterword
Rhodes, N., Jan 2015, Translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 217-226Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter