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Professor Gerard Kilroy is a leading scholar in Early Modern English Literature and Religious Studies, currently serving as Professor of English Literature at Ignatianum University in Krakow. He holds Senior Research Fellowships at Campion Hall, University of Oxford and is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. Kilroy’s research focuses on manuscript transmission, the survival of Catholic ideas in Shakespeare’s works, and oral culture in early modern England.
- Classical Mods and English Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford
- Ph.D., Lancaster University
His recent publications explore subversive publishing in the English and Polish-Lithuanian Counter-Reformation, Shakespeare’s theological contexts, and Joseph Conrad’s modernist fiction. Kilroy has held fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and Marsh’s Library, Dublin.
Scientific Awards and Fellowships:
- Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship
- St Catherine’s College, Oxford Fellowship
- Marsh’s Library, Dublin Fellowship
- St John’s College, Oxford Scholarship
- Grocers’ Company Scholar (2001–2014)
- ELR Prize (2011)
Kilroy founded the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution's Café Philo in 1997, fostering philosophical dialogue. His collaborative projects include studies on Jesuit school theaters in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Catholic intellectual networks in England and Poland.
