Greg Walker#
| Membership Number: | 6176 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/greg-walker |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1276-6698 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh
- 2017 - 2019 Leverhulme Trust 2-year Major Research Fellow
- 2007 - 2010 Masson Professor of English Literature, University of Edinburgh
- 1998 - 2007 Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture, University of Leicester
- 2001 - 2004 Leverhulme Trust 3-year Major Research Fellow
- 1995 - 2007 Founding Director, Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester
- 1995 - 1998 Reader (Associate Professor equivalent) in English, University of Leicester
- 1991 - 1995 Lecturer in English, University of Leicester
- Jan - Sept 1991 Lecturer in English, University of Buckingham
- 1989 - 1991 (Fixed-Term) Lecturer in English, University of Queensland, Australia.
- 1986 - 1989 British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southampton
Fields of Scholarship
- Tudor history
- Late Medieval literature
- The career of Alexander Korda
- Early drama
- Early-Modern English and Scottish Literature
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Bliss Carnochan International Visiting Fellow, Stanford Humanities Centre
- March 2017 Mary Robertson Fellow in Tudor History, Huntington Library
- 2017 - 2019 Leverhulme Trust Two-Year Major Research Fellowship (£95.5k)
- October 2016 Senior Visiting Research Fellow, CESTA, Stanford University
- 2008 - present (not 2020 - 2021) Visiting Professor, University of Granada, Spain (one week p.a.)
- 2001 - 2004 Leverhulme Trust Three-Year Major Research Fellowship (c. £100k),
- 1998 Visiting Professor, Université François Rabelais, Tours
- 1996 George Watson Visiting Research Fellow, University of Queensland
- 1996 Hartley Fellow, University of Southampton Hartley Library
- 1993 Huntington Library Mayer Fund Research Fellow, San Marino, California
- 1986 - 1989 British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Southampton University
- National Academies:
- February 2017 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the Agder Vitenskapsakademi (Agder Academy of Letters and Sciences, Norway)
- 2011 Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- 2005 Elected to International Association of University Professors of English
- 2002 Elected Fellow of the English Association
- 1988 Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
