Professor Liz Oakley-Brown

Professor in English Literature

Research Overview

I teach and research fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writing in English (generally from a twenty-first century critical perspective).

While my research interests are varied, I mainly work on: Ovid in English; Tudor Gothic; Premodern Gothic; Surface Studies; the Cultural Politics of Tudor translation. My current book-length project is Tudor Gothic (Cambridge University Press, contracted 2026). With Duncan Lees (Warwick University), I have co-edited a collection of essays called Translating Shakespeare: Access and Mediation (Palgrave, forthcoming October 2025). I am also editing Christopher Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Elegies for The Oxford Marlowe Project. My most recent major publication is the book Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface (Routledge, 2024).