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Professor David Colclough holds the academic rank of Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London's School of English and Drama, within the English Department. He has been teaching there since 1998 and previously held a Junior Research Fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge following his studies. Colclough earned his MA at Cambridge and DPhil (PhD) at Oxford, where his doctoral work focused on textual citation in early modern prose.
His research interests span early modern literary history, political thought, and religious writing, with particular emphasis on John Donne and Francis Bacon. He is deeply engaged in textual editing, having contributed to editions of Bacon’s New Atlantis and Donne’s sermons for the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, where he also serves as Deputy General Editor. Current projects include a scholarly edition of Donne’s St Paul’s Cathedral sermons (1628-1630).
Colclough has supervised numerous successful PhD students, including Rosanna Cox (2006), Maria Reardon (2007), Steven Cowser (2012), Vanessa Lim (2019, co-supervised with Prof. Quentin Skinner), and Katie Ebner-Landy (2022, also co-supervised with Skinner). His research often bridges literary analysis with intellectual and political history, emphasizing material forms of textual dissemination (manuscripts and print) and the interplay between religious, political, and rhetorical discourse.
He has no explicitly stated scientific awards or grants in the provided texts but has produced significant scholarly editions and written on pivotal early modern figures and themes. His work exemplifies interdisciplinary approaches to Renaissance studies, focusing on how texts shape and reflect cultural and historical contexts.
