About
Dr. Paul Edmondson is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, with affiliations as an Honorary Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham) and Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Birmingham City University. He has lived and worked in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1995.
- Key Roles: Co-supervisor of collaborative Ph.D. students, Trustee of British Shakespeare Association, chair of Midland 4 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership, priest in Church of England.
Research Focus: Shakespearean studies, civic creativity, cultural heritage, and theatrical history. His work bridges academic scholarship with public engagement through projects like the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series and archaeological biography.
Selected Publications: Explores Shakespeare's life through collaborative projects (Finding Shakespeare’s New Place), textual scholarship (All the Sonnets of Shakespeare), and festival analysis (A Year of Shakespeare).
Additional Contributions: Translated Greg Wells’s Ph.D. thesis into John Hall, Master of Physicke: A Casebook from Shakespeare’s Stratford, demonstrating dedication to posthumous scholarly collaboration.
