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Professor Gordon McMullan is a Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre at King's College London (Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Department of English). He holds a visiting professorship at the University of Queensland and is a Fellow of the English Association and Royal Society of Arts. His academic journey includes degrees from the Universities of Birmingham (BA), Kansas (MA), and a DPhil from Wadham College, Oxford. He has held fellowships at the Huntington Library and Australian National University's Humanities Research Centre, receiving grants from AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, and the Australian Research Council.
Research focuses on early modern theatre, Shakespeare's afterlives, cultural memory, late style theory, and the cultural history of birds like cormorants. Notable projects include the AHRC-funded 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collections' (2018–2021), exploring the interplay between Shakespeare and British monarchy. He is a co-editor of Arden Early Modern Drama and general editor of the Norton Shakespeare. Recent publications include Antipodal Shakespeare (2018) and Creativity in Later Life (2019).
Teaching expertise spans early modern drama, with courses on Jacobean theatre, late Shakespeare, and gender/culture intersections. He supervises PhD students across his research areas. Public engagement includes roles as dramaturg for RSC/Globe productions, BBC radio appearances, and leadership in the Shakespeare400 consortium (2016), which involved 25 London cultural institutions.
Recipient of the Sam Wanamaker Award (2016) for contributions to Shakespearean scholarship, he co-founded the King's/Shakespeare's Globe MA in Shakespeare Studies. His work bridges academia and cultural institutions, exemplified by exhibitions like 'By Me, William Shakespeare' with The National Archives and the British Library's Shakespeare in Ten Acts (2016).
