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Dr James Ellison

Contact Details

E-Mail : J.Ellison@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: 07770 623924
Room Location: Room 2.9, Tower Extension
Office Hours: Thursday 11-12pm but best to email or phone in advance to avoid disappointment

Research Interests

James Ellison received his MA from Cambridge University in 1976 and his DPhil from Oxford in 1998. He spent the intervening period as a merger and acquisition specialist in the high-technology industry. His thesis was published in 2002 as George Sandys: Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the 17th Century. He has taught and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Aberdeen, and Dundee Universities, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at Strathclyde University. He is Treasurer of Citadel Arts Group, a small professional theatre company based in Edinburgh.

He is currently completing a study of representations of religious persecution and the problem of tolerance in 16th century drama. His research interests include:

In the photograph above he can be seen reading The Faerie Queene at Spenser's castle of Kilcolman in Ireland to an audience of students and an angry family of Peregrine Falcons.

Publications

Books

George Sandys: Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the 17th Century (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002)

Articles & Book Chapters

''Muses that Fames loose feathers beautifie': a forgotten attack on Shakespeare by George Chapman, and its relationship to Troilus and Cressida' (forthcoming).

'Willobie His Avisa (1594) and Measure for Measure: new light on Shakespeare and the puritans' (forthcoming).

'Beerbohm Tree's King John (1899): a fin-de-siècle fragment and its cultural context', Shakespeare, 3:3 (2007), 293-394

'Review of Richard Wilson, Secret Shakespeare: studies in theatre, religion and resistance', Early Modern Literary Studies, 12:2 (September, 2006), 17.1-10

'Measure for Measure and the Executions of Catholics in 1604', in English Literary Renaissance, 33:1 (2003), 44-87

'The Winter's Tale and the Religious Politics of Europe', in New Casebooks: Shakespeare's Romances, ed. by Alison Thorne (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan: 2003).