Brett Greatley-Hirsch

I joined Leeds in 2016 as University Academic Fellow in Textual Studies and Digital Editing. I was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021 and Professor in 2024. Previously, I was an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Australia (2013–16). I have held research fellowships in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and USA.

My research concerns early modern English literature and drama, especially the application of digital methods to literary criticism and textual studies. My monograph, Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama: Beyond Authorship (Cambridge University Press, 2017; with Hugh Craig), brings these interdisciplinary strands together, described by reviewers as a “disruptive digital intervention” (TLS 8 Dec. 2017: 10), work that has “redefined the scope of computational analyses of early modern drama” (RES 69.292 [2018]: 989), and “a demonstration of what computational methods add to the study of Shakespeare and his cohort” that is “uncommonly good at provoking fresh ways of looking at the field” (SEL 59.2 [2019]: 446).

I am a co-editor of the Routledge journal Shakespeare, coordinating editor of Digital Renaissance Editions, and Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association.