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

Richard 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. He is also interested in the history of proverbial language, and currently leads the AHRC Curiosity project 'Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture'.

Richard 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. He recently worked with the community group Fitmums and Friends on a bereavement support programme for children and young people, supported by The Ideas Fund (British Science Association/Wellcome Trust).

Undergraduate

- Poetry Without Borders

- Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre

- Love, Desire and Death

- Intercultural Shakespeares

- Speaking Pictures: Literature and the Visual Arts

Postgraduate

- Literature and the Emotions (MA module; convenor)

- Shakespearean Transformations (MA module)

Recent outputs

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Book

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Meek, R. (2023). Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009280259

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 University Press

Book Chapter

Othello's Sympathies: Emotion, Agency And Identification

Meek, R. (2022). Othello’s Sympathies: Emotion, Agency And Identification. In Shakespeare survey 75 (194-207). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009245845.014

'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). 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 University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090783.003.0007

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

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:

Izzy Trent Daltry, '"I am the sea": water, emotion, and geography in early modern literature and culture' (co-supervised with Dr Amanda Capern)

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