Brian Cummings

Brian Cummings is Anniversary Professor at the University of York. Before arriving at York, he was fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and then professor of English at the University of Sussex. He has held visiting fellowships at Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, Munich; the University of Toronto; and the Folger Library in Washington DC. In 2012, he gave the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University; in 2013, the Margaret Mann Phillips Plenary Lecture at the Renaissance Society of America; he has...See more

Brian Cummings is Anniversary Professor at the University of York. Before arriving at York, he was fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and then professor of English at the University of Sussex. He has held visiting fellowships at Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, Munich; the University of Toronto; and the Folger Library in Washington DC. In 2012, he gave the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University; in 2013, the Margaret Mann Phillips Plenary Lecture at the Renaissance Society of America; he has also given the British Academy annual Shakespeare Lecture and the Shakespeare Birthday Lecture in Washington DC. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. See less