Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
R. S. White MA (Adelaide), D.Phil (Oxford), FAHA
Head English Department 1989-92; 1995-7
Fellow Austraian Humanities Academy
Winthrop Professor of English
Australian Professorial Fellow (ARC)
Chief Coordinator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
Programme Leader ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions
Funding overview
For details see Research Profile and Publications below
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
Australian Professorial Fellowship
ARC Discovery Awards
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
Australian Professorial Fellowship
ARC Discovery Awards
Previous positions
Lecturer - Senior Lecturer University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1974-88
Visiting Research Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
Visiting Research Fellow, Balliol College Oxford
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
ARC Professorial Research Fellowship (2008-13)
Senior Visiting Research Fellowship, Magdalen College Oxford (2018)
Current projects
Book: Romantic Pacifism IN PROGRESS FOR PUBLICATION 2025
Book: Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings (Edinburgh University Press, May, 2024) https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shakespeare-against-war.html
Book: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Language and Writing (London: Arden Studies, Bloomsbury, 2020)
Book: Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-keats-s-anatomy-of-melancholy.html
Book: Ambivalent Macbeth (Sydney University Press, 2018)
Book (co-ed with Paul Megna and Brid Phillips) Hamlet and Emotions (Palgrave, 2019)
Book (co-ed. with Ciara Rawnsley) The New Fortune Theatre: That Vast Open Stage (UWA Publishing, 2018)
Chapters
'Character' in Shakespeare and Emotion (Cambridge, 2020)
'Eklavya' and Hamlet' in Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas, ed. Poonam Trivedi (Routledge)
(with Fiona Ritchie) 'Romantic Habits of quoting Shakespeare'in Shakespeare and Quotation, ed. Julie Maxwell and Kate Rumbold (Cambridge University Press)
'Keats's "Isabella" in John Keats and the Medical imagination, ed. Nicholas Roe (Palgrave Macmillan)
'Character' in Emotions and Shakespeare, ed Katharine Craik (Cambridge University Press)
Teaching overview
Research intensive
Teaching contributions: Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature,Romantics and Revolution, Film history
Teaching contributions: Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature,Romantics and Revolution, Film history
Research
Shakespeare
Renaissance literature
Keats
Romantic poetry
Film history
History of Emotions
Renaissance literature
Keats
Romantic poetry
Film history
History of Emotions
Research expertise keywords
- Shakespeare
- Romantic Poetry
- Emotions
- Renaissance
- Film, Television And Cultural Studies
- Keats and Romantics
- Pacifism and human rights in literature
- Film history
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Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings
White, R., May 2024, 1st ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 293 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Two Indian Film Offshoots of Twelfth Night
White, R., Jan 2023, Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West: Familiar Strangers. Panjwani, V. & Chatterjee, K. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 55-78 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
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'Bloody-hunting slaughtermen, sieges and lechery': What does Shakespeare tell us of war?
White, R., 25 Apr 2022, The Conversation, 2022.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article in specialist publication
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'Ode on Melancholy' by John Keats: Introductory essay to video reading
White, R., Nov 2022, The Keats Foundation: online, 2022.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Language and Writing
White, R., 2021, 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 6 p. (The Arden Shakespeare)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Projects
- 11 Finished
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Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Poems (1820) as a unified volume
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/15 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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Centre for the History of Emotions
Lynch, A., Van Gent, J., White, R., Lemmings, D., Davidson, J., Trigg, S., Haskell, Y., Holbrook, P., Ruys, J., Zika, C., Konishi, S., Gibbard, P. & Broomhall, S.
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/11 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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2010 - Re Drawing the Literary Map 1250 to 1650 - The Sonnet Sequence as an Influence on the History of the Novel - Proof of Concept
Kambaskovic-Schwartz, D., White, R. & Broomhall, S.
The University of Western Australia
1/01/10 → 31/12/10
Project: Research
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DP0877846 - Shakespeare & Film Genres
ARC Australian Research Council
31/12/07 → 31/12/13
Project: Research
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Shakespeare's Cinema of Love: Pilot Project for ARC Application
The University of Western Australia
1/01/06 → 31/12/06
Project: Research