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Professor Bob White

Professor

phone: 6488 2070
email: bobwhite@arts.uwa.edu.au

Research Interests:

Shakespeare;
The Younger Romantics;
Literary Theory;
Ideas and Literature;
Film history

Qualifications:

MA (Adelaide)
DPhil (Oxford)

Honours and Awards:

Fellowship of Australian Humanities Academy
Australian Centennial Medal
Shortlisted for WA Premier’s Literary Award
Nominated for Outstanding Teaching and Supervision Awards (1994, 1998, 2002, 2006)

Recent Publications
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Books

John Keats: A Literary Life [London: Palgrave Macmillan 2010]

Pacifism in English Literature: Minstrels of Peace [London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008]
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280581

Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s [London: Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2005]
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=271517

Proceedings of the World Shakespeare Congress 2006 [Delaware University Press, 2008 [co-ed. With Christa Jahnson and Richard Fotheringham].
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/udpress/shakesworld.htm

Shakespeare's Local Habitations, [co-ed. With Krystyna Courtney], Lodz University Press, 2006.
http://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/

[ed] Romeo and Juliet: Contemporary Critical Essays, Palgrave / Macmillan, London, 2001.
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=259523

Natural Law and English Renaissance Literature [Cambridge University Press, 1996]
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521032896

Chapters in Books and Articles in refereed journals

'Elijah Moshinsky's Television All's Well That Ends Well', in All's Well That Ends Well: New Essays, ed. Gary Waller, Routledge, 2007.

'Solomon and Gaenor: A Welsh-Jewish Romeo and Juliet', in AUMLA: Journal of the Australiasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 2006.

'Ophelia's sisters', in The Impact of Feminism on Renaissance Studies, ed. Dympna Callaghan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

'Where is Shakespeare’s Autobiography?', in Early Modern Autobiography: Theories, Genres, Practices, eds. Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, & Philippa Kelly, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2006, 174 – 90.

'Sex, Lies, Videotape – and Othello', in Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television, eds. James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner, McFarland and Company, Jefferson, 2004, 86 – 98.

'Shakespeare Studies in Autralia', AUMLA: Journal of the Austraiasian Universities Language and Literature Association, no, 100, 2003, 13 – 28.

'Humor' and 'William Blake', entries in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (2003).

'The cultural impact of the Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day', Discourses of Civility in Early Modern Britain, ed. Jennifer Richards (Palgrave / Macmillan, 2003).

'The Shakespeare underground', Shakespeare Matters, ed. Lloyd Davis (U. of Delaware Press, 2003).

Charles Armitage Brown, commissioned entry for National Dictionary of Biography (2003).

'Romeo and Juliet on Film: A Mediterranean Love Story', Shakespeare and the Classroom, x (2002), 45 - 54.

'Shakespeare criticism in the twentieth century', The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells (Cambridge, 2001), 279 -06.

'Humanism old and new', Touch of the Real: Essays in honour of Stephen Greenblatt, ed. Philippa Kelly (University of WA Press, 2002 pp 84 - 104).

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