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Professor Eugene Giddens

Professor Eugene Giddens
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Eugene is Skinner-Young Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature and Deputy Director of the ESRC CAM-DTP. He teaches and researches Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, children’s literature, and the history of the book.

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Faculty:
Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
School:
Humanities and Social Sciences
Location:
Cambridge
Areas of Expertise:
Literature
Research Supervision:
Yes
Areas of research supervision

Eugene has supervised 20 doctorates to completion and would be keen to hear from potential students interested in Renaissance studies or children’s literature.

Qualifications
  • PhD English, University of Birmingham
  • BA English, summa cum laude, Clemson University, South Carolina

University prizes

  • Anglia Ruskin Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research (2015)
  • Anglia Ruskin Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Supervision (2013)
  • Anglia Ruskin University Teaching Fellow (2012)
Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

British Academy Early Career Researcher Network East of England Cluster – Delivery Partner, British Academy, 2025-2027, ARU Project Lead.

CAM ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships, University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University, University of Bedfordshire, Economic and Social Research Council, 2024-2029, Co-I, Deputy Director.

CAM ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University, University of Bedfordshire, Economic and Social Research Council, 2024-2031, Co-I, Deputy Director.

Louise Seaman Bechtel Visiting Professorship Travel Grant, University of Florida, 2023-2024, $1250.

The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, research on James Shirley’s texts in Japan, 2022-23, £2000.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, research on The Complete Works of James Shirley, 2022-23, £2400.

Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) Research Associateship award, ‘The Cambridge History of Children’s Literature in English’, 2021-23, £25,000 – Principal Investigator.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) UK-US Partnership Development Grant, ‘Enhancing the diversity of digital children's literature collections in the UK and US’, 2020-2022, £100,791: Anglia Ruskin share, £21,097 – Co-investigator. Digital decolonisation project with Homerton College, Cambridge and the University of Florida.

Princeton University Library Research Grant, ‘Complete Works of James Shirley’, 2019-2020, $3080 [Covid-delayed, unable to take up until 2023].

AHRC Research Network, ‘Digital Collections in Children’s Literature: Distance Reading, Scholarship, Community’, 2019-20, £59,114: Anglia Ruskin share, £13,007 – Co-investigator. Research impact network with Homerton College, Cambridge and the University of Florida.

MHRA Research Associateship award, ‘The Complete Works of James Shirley’, 2018-19, £23,000: all funding to Warwick University as RA host, Co-author and named Co-investigator in award.

George A. Smathers Libraries, ‘Children’s’ Christmas Books’, University of Florida, Travel to Collections Grant, 2018-19, $2200.

American Philosophical Society, ‘Children’s Book Illustration, 1850-1910’, Franklin Research Grant, 2017-18, $5000.

European Union Horizon 2020, Marie Curie Research Fellowship for Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak of Wroclaw University for ‘ChildAct: Shaping a Preferable Future: Children Reading, Thinking and Talking about Alternative Communities and Times’, 2017-18, €97,727.40 – Principal Investigator.

Harvard University, Katherine F. Pantzer Bibliographical Fellowship, 2016-17, ‘Children’s Book Illustration, 1850-1910’, $10,800 awarded for three months, one taken, $3600.

Children’s Literature Association of America, Faculty Research Grant, ‘Visualising Childhood, 1850-1910’, 2016, $1480.

British Academy Small Research Grant, ‘Revels Edition of James Shirley’s Hyde Park’, 2014, £1420.05.

Higher Education Association Discipline Workshop, ‘Postgraduate Teachers of English: Support, Recognition, and Integration’, 2012-13, £748.

The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, research on Alice in Japan, 31 March-14 April 2012 – Co-investigator, £1000.

AHRC Block Grant Partnerships: Capacity Building Route, 1 October 2011-30 September 2016, £182,988 in studentships + continuers grants of £39,948 = £222,936 – Principal Investigator.

  • AHRC Competition PPM Continuers Grant, Sept. 10-Jul. 11, £2356
  • AHRC Competition Doctoral Continuers Grant, Sept. 10-Jul. 11, £18,171
  • AHRC Competition RPM 2010 Grant, Sept. 10-Jul. 12, £19,421

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Pforzheimer Fellowship 2010-2011, $3000.

British Academy Smaller Research Grant, The Shakespearean Play Text, 1 July 2009-1 October 2009, £1427.14.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, research on The Complete Works of James Shirley, 11 July 2009-25 July 2009, £1500.

English Subject Centre, support for Anglia Literary Society, 2007-8, £250.

U. S. National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend 2008, $6000.

AHRC Research Grant, The Complete Works of James Shirley, 1 April 2008-31 March 2014, £885,657: Anglia Ruskin share, £344,000 – Co-Investigator.

AHRC, Interdisciplinary Research Training Network, 2006-2008, £350 for Anglia Ruskin.

UCLA and the Huntington Library, Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliography Fellowship, 2007-2008, for editorial work on James Shirley, $4,000.

British Academy Larger Research Grant, The Complete Works of James Shirley – Preparatory Research, March 2005-Sept. 2005, £14,042.

Selected recent publications

The Cambridge History of Children’s Literature in English, general editor with Zoe Jaques, 3 volumes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press).

Thomas Kyd, King Leir, ed. Eugene Giddens, in The Complete Works of Thomas Kyd (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2024).

Giddens, E. (Ed.), 2022. Hyde Park (Revels) (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

Giddens, E., 2019. Christmas Books for Children (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Giddens, E., Grant, T., Ravelhofer, B. (Eds.), 2017-2025. The Oxford Complete Works of James Shirley (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (15 eds.).

Giddens, E., 2017. Children’s Literature and Distant Reading. In Nikolajeva, M., Beauvais, C. (Eds.), 2017. The Edinburgh Companion to Children’s Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).

Giddens, E., 2016. Shakespeare’s Texts and Editions. In Ormsby, R., Levenson, J. (Eds.), The Shakespearean World (London: Routledge).

Giddens, E., 2016. Recent Studies in Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, 12(4), pp. 473-485.

Giddens, E., Keanan, S. (Gen. Eds.), 2016. Collections XVII (The Malone Society) (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

Giddens, E. (Ed.), 2015. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens. In Greenblatt, S. et al (Eds.), The Norton Shakespeare (New York and London: Norton).

Giddens, E., Jaques, Z., 2013. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing History (New York and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013). Co-authored 100,000-word book.

Giddens, E. (Gen. Ed.), 2013. Hanabusa, C. (Ed.), Two Lamentable Tragedies (The Malone Society) (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

Giddens, E., Britland, K. (Assoc. Eds.), 2012. Bevington, D., Butler, M., Donaldson, I., (Gen. Eds.), 2012. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Seven print volumes and electronic edition.

Giddens, E., 2011. How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Giddens, E. (Gen. Ed.), 2011. Collections XVI (The Malone Society) (Manchester University Press: Malone Society Publications).

Giddens, E., 2011. Digital Editions and Digital Delays: Electronic Editions of Renaissance Literature. Book 2.0, 1(1) pp. 21-30.

Giddens, E., 2011. Masculinity and Barbarism in Titus Andronicus. Early Modern Literary Studies 14(1).

Giddens, E., 2009. Editions and Editors. In Sanders, J. (Ed.) Jonson in Context, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Giddens, E. (Ed.), 2008. William Shakespeare, Pericles, New Penguin Shakespeare (London: Penguin).

Giddens, E., 2008. Pericles, the Afterlife. In Alexander, C. M. S. (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Giddens, E., 2007. Honourable Men: Militancy and Masculinity in Julius Caesar. Renaissance Forum, 5(2), pp. 1-34. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, 105 (2007).

Giddens, E., 2005. Introduction. In Smallwood, R. (Ed.), 2005. William Shakespeare, King John, New Penguin Shakespeare (London: Penguin).

Gideens, E., 2003. The Final Stages of Printing Ben Jonson’s Works, 1640-41. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 97, pp. 57-68.

Giddens, E., 2001. Notes and glossary. In Knowles, J. (Ed.), 2001. The Roaring Girl and other City Comedies, Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press).