Andrew Murphy

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Prof Andrew Murphy attended Trinity College Dublin as an undergraduate and went on to study for his MA and PhD at Brandeis University in Boston in the US. He was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire before joining the School of English at St Andrews in 1998. He has published monographs on the Irish context of early modern English Literature; on the history of Shakespeare editing and publishing; and on nineteenth-century working class readers of Shakespeare. He has also published an introductory study of the poetry of Seamus Heaney. Edited collections include The Renaissance Text: Theory, Editing, Textuality; Shakespeare and Scotland; and A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text. Currently he is working on a study of literacy and cultural nationalism in Ireland in the period 1790 to 1930, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.