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Research Interests
My interests include English Renaissance drama and culture, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Shakespeare on film, Shakespeare and modern popular culture, Irish studies and global Shakespeares, and I welcome applications from doctoral students in these and related areas.
Research Statement
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Sir Kenneth Branagh Archive at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), Constructing ‘Monsters’ in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007; 2nd ed. 2012), Shakespeare and World Cinema (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) and 'Hamlet' and World Cinema (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), the co-author of Great Shakespeareans: Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), the editor of The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe (London: Dent, 1999) and The Complete Poems of Christopher Marlowe (London: Everyman, 2000), and the co-editor of New Essays on ‘Hamlet’ (New York: AMS Press, 1994), Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), Filming and Performing Renaissance History (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011) and The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011). His work has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the European Commission, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre and the Huntington Library.
He is leading/mentoring on two funded projects - the EC/Marie Curie project, ‘Shakespeare and Indian Cinematic Traditions’, with Dr Rosa Maria Garcia Periago, and the Leverhulme Early Career project, 'South Indian Shakespeares', with Dr Thea Buckley.
Achievements
Member of the Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the English Association; Trustee and Director of the British Shakespeare Association.
Teaching
Shakespeare and Company; Shakespeare and Adaptation; Double Dissertation; Shakespeare on Screen; Literary Research Methods.
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Projects
R1813ENG: Filming and performing renaissance history,1500-1660
01/08/2006 → 17/12/2019
Project: Research
Research Output
Materialising 'Hamlet' in the Cinemas of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
Burnett, M., 01 Aug 2020, Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BEELS90. Cubrovic, B. (ed.). Belgrade : Faculty of Philology, p. 17-34 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Shakespearean Cinemas / Global Directions
Burnett, M., 01 Aug 2020, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen . Jackson, R. (ed.). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, p. 52-63 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Afterword
Burnett, M., 01 Dec 2019, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare: A Love Affair in Literature, Film and Performance. Cano, M. & Garcia-Periago, R. (eds.). Basingstoke and London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 399-402 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
'Hamlet' and World Cinema
Burnett, M., 31 Jul 2019, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 291 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Past and Present Trajectories for 'Global Shakespeare'
Burnett, M., 15 Apr 2019, Eating Shakespeare: Cultural Anthropophagy as Global Methodology . Refskou, A. S., de Amorim, M. A. & de Carvalho, V. M. (eds.). London and New York : Bloomsbury, p. 155-171 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Prizes
Albert W. Fields Award, South Central Renaissance Conference
Burnett, Mark (Recipient), 1995
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino
Burnett, Mark (Recipient), 01 May 1998
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant
Burnett, Mark (Recipient), 11 Mar 2008
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Fellow of the English Association
Burnett, Mark (Recipient), 03 Mar 2014
Prize: Election to learned society
Fletcher Jones Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino
Burnett, Mark (Recipient), 18 Jul 1993
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
Peer reviewer, Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Mark Burnett (Peer reviewer)
17 Jan 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Academic Consultant, 'Macbeth' in Global Performance, Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Project
Mark Burnett (Advisor)
26 Mar 2019
Activity: Consultancy types › Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement
International Conference, English Department (BELLS90), University of Belgrade, Serbia
Mark Burnett (Keynote/plenary speaker)
05 May 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Discussant, Q+A Panel on 'Life Goes On'/'King Lear' (dir. Sangeeta Datta, 2009), Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast
Mark Burnett (Speaker)
30 Oct 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Peer reviewer, Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Mark Burnett (Peer reviewer)
06 Jun 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Press / Media
Contributor, Talking History, Newstalk 106-108FM
09/04/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Contributor, Good Morning Ulster, BBC Radio Ulster
24/04/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Presenter, Shakespeare and World Cinema, Shakespeare Unlimited Radio Broadcast, Folger Shakespeare Library
04/04/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment