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Gavin Alexander is a Professor at the Faculty of English, specializing in Renaissance literature. His research focuses primarily on English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has particular interests in the works of Philip Sidney and related writers, as well as the connections between poetry and music during the Renaissance. Alexander's published work includes a Penguin Classics edition of Renaissance literary criticism and an edition of important late Elizabethan treatises on poetics, based on manuscripts he has edited. He is currently working on a book that explores the connections between lyric poetry and music, alongside editing Fulke Greville's 'Caelica' and compiling the complete works of Greville for Oxford University Press. Alexander is also involved in graduate supervision and has taught courses on material text research frameworks, collaborating with colleagues and graduate students in palaeography.
Faculty of English, University of Cambridge • Cambridge, England
Teaching Renaissance literature and supervising graduate research.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.