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Andrew Zurcher is an Official Fellow and Bruce Cleave Fellow in English & Drama at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he serves as Joint Director of Studies in English. He holds advanced degrees including a BA from Yale, MPhil, and PhD.
His research focuses on literature in English between 1500 and 1700, with particular expertise in the works of Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Sir Thomas Browne. His scholarly interests encompass early modern manuscript and print culture, law and literature studies, and early modern rhetoric and epistemology.
Zurcher has produced new editions of works by Edmund Spenser and Thomas Browne for Oxford University Press and is currently researching the significance of the rhetorical figure of hypallage in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry and drama. He contributes to early modern papers in the Faculty of English, including the Shakespeare paper, and teaches early modern paleography for the Faculty of History.
In his teaching role, he supervises undergraduate and graduate students in early modern English literature, Shakespeare, Practical Criticism, and Tragedy. As Director of Studies, he organizes teaching for English undergraduates and emphasizes creating a collaborative critical thinking environment. He also takes an active interest in BATS (the undergraduate theatrical society) and the college literary magazine, the Dial.
