Dr Alex Davis

Dr Alex Davis

Senior Lecturer

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2649
Email
ald3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 101
Location
Kennedy Hall

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Biography

Alex Davis works on the literature and culture of the late medieval and early modern periods. He is the author of three books:ÌýChivalry and Romance in the English RenaissanceÌý(2003);ÌýRenaissance Historical FictionÌý(2011); and Imagining Inheritance From Chaucer to Shakespeare (2020). With Neil Rhodes, Harriet Archer, and Gordon Kendal he is one of the editors of the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations edition ofÌýErasmus in English, 1523-1584 (2023). He would welcome enquiries from prospective research students in any of these areas of study.

Research areas

The literature and culture of the English Renaissance; Shakespeare; medievalism.

PhD supervision

  • NilanjanaÌýGoswami
  • OscarÌýHaines

Selected publications

  • Davis, A., 25 Feb 2020, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 297 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Davis, A., Jul 2011, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 264 p. (Studies in Renaissance Literature; vol. 29)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Davis, A., May 2003, Boydell and Brewer. 263 p. (Studies in Renaissance literature)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access
    Davis, A., 8 Sept 2016, In: English Literary History. 83, 3, p. 655-679

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Davis, A., 2016, In: Medium Aevum. 85, 1, p. 97-117 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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