CONFERENCE
Dr. Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies (English Literature)
in the School of Criticism at the University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow
of the English Association (FEA), and co-founder with Philip Hobsbaum
in 1995 of Glasgow’s Creative Writing postgraduate programme. He
has published widely on English Renaissance Literature, from Spenser
to Milton, and on aspects of early modern and modern Scottish and
Irish culture, from James Joyce to Alasdair Gray. He is the author of A
Spenser Chronology (1994), Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture
and Identity (1997), Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance
Literature: Shakespeare to Milton (2003), and Muriel Spark for
Starters (2008). He is editor, with Andrew Hadfield, of A View of the
Present State of Ireland: From the First Published Edition (1997). He
has also edited eight collections of essays: with Brendan Bradshaw and Andrew Hadfield, Representing
Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534-1660 (1993); with Bart Moore-Gilbert and Gareth
Stanton, Postcolonial Criticism (1997); with David J. Baker, British Identities and English Renaissance
Literature (2002); with Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare and Scotland (2004); with Alex Benchimol, Spheres of
Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Publics from Shakespeare to Habermas (2006); with Philip Schwyzer, of
Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (Ashgate, 2010); with Michael Gardiner, The
Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark (2010); and with Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, This England, That
Shakespeare: New Angles on Englishness and the Bard (2010).
in the School of Criticism at the University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow
of the English Association (FEA), and co-founder with Philip Hobsbaum
in 1995 of Glasgow’s Creative Writing postgraduate programme. He
has published widely on English Renaissance Literature, from Spenser
to Milton, and on aspects of early modern and modern Scottish and
Irish culture, from James Joyce to Alasdair Gray. He is the author of A
Spenser Chronology (1994), Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture
and Identity (1997), Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance
Literature: Shakespeare to Milton (2003), and Muriel Spark for
Starters (2008). He is editor, with Andrew Hadfield, of A View of the
Present State of Ireland: From the First Published Edition (1997). He
has also edited eight collections of essays: with Brendan Bradshaw and Andrew Hadfield, Representing
Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534-1660 (1993); with Bart Moore-Gilbert and Gareth
Stanton, Postcolonial Criticism (1997); with David J. Baker, British Identities and English Renaissance
Literature (2002); with Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare and Scotland (2004); with Alex Benchimol, Spheres of
Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Publics from Shakespeare to Habermas (2006); with Philip Schwyzer, of
Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (Ashgate, 2010); with Michael Gardiner, The
Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark (2010); and with Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, This England, That
Shakespeare: New Angles on Englishness and the Bard (2010).
