Dr Richard Meek

Dr Richard Meek

Lecturer / Programme Director for the MA in English

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Humanities

Summary

Dr Meek's main research interests are in Shakespeare and early modern literature, ekphrasis and the relationship between visual and verbal modes of representation, and the history of emotion.

Dr Meek has recently completed his second monograph – a study of the representation and development of sympathy in the years 1580-1640, entitled Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

He has co-edited three collections of essays with Manchester University Press, including most recently Ekphrastic Encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts (2019).

In 2017 he held a International Visitor Fellowship at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in Perth, Australia, which included giving the opening keynote lecture at the conference 'Hamlet and Emotions: Then and Now'.

Undergraduate - Re-Visioning Shakespeare - Travels in Text and Time - Love and Desire in Renaissance Literature - Shakespeare - Speaking Pictures: Literature and the Visual Arts Postgraduate - Medieval and Renaissance Intertextualities (MA module) - Victorian Literature and the Visual Arts (MA module)

Recent outputs

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Book

Ekphrastic encounters: New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts

Meek, R. (2018). D. Kennedy, & R. Meek (Eds.). Ekphrastic encounters: New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts. Manchester UK: Manchester University Press

Book Chapter

'For by the Image of My Cause, I See / The Portraiture of His': Hamlet and the Imitation of Emotion

Meek, R. (2019). ‘For by the Image of My Cause, I See / The Portraiture of His’: Hamlet and the Imitation of Emotion. In P. Megna, B. Phillips, & R. White (Eds.), Hamlet and emotions (81-108). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03795-6_5

'Rue e'en for ruth': Richard II and the imitation of sympathy

Meek, R. (2015). 'Rue e'en for ruth': Richard II and the imitation of sympathy. In R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (130-152). Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090783.003.0007

Journal Article

'O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus

Meek, R. (2013). ‘O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare survey, 66, 287 - 297. https://doi.org/10.1017/SSO9781107300699.021

"This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author

Meek, R., & Rickard, J. (2011). "This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author. Shakespeare, 7(3), 269-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2011.589058

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

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Project

A bereavement support programme for children and young people based in a forest school setting

Funder

Wellcome Trust

Grant

£4,955.00

Started

1 January 2022

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Meek is happy to supervise PhD students interested in Shakespeare and early modern literature; Shakespeare's afterlives; the history of emotion; and the relationship between visual and verbal art. Current PhD supervisions Andrew Hewitt, Thomas Hardy, Affect and Body Language (co-supervised with Jane Thomas)

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