Professor Worrall is Professor of English Literature, Deputy College Research Co-ordinator and Unit of Assessment Co-ordinator for D29 (English Language and Literature).
Professor Worrall researches the British romantic poet and painter William Blake (1757-1827) and was Principal Investigator (with Dr Nancy Cho) on a two year Panacea Society funded project on the ex-servant, ex-Quaker prophetic writer, Dorothy Gott.
He has just completed a manuscript for a monograph, Theatrical Intelligence: Eighteenth Century British Theatre and Social Assemblage Theatre, now in negotiation with Cambridge University Press. This is a novel transposition of a theory drawn from the social sciences and applied to play texts, actors' lives, celebrity cultures, theatre buildings and a range of archival sources connected to Georgian period theatre.
Professor Worrall has previously been a Fellow of the following institutions:
- Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT
- Huntington Library, San Marino, California
- Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
- Pennsylvania Historical Society / Library Company of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
In 2013 Professor Worrall will be Research Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra as part of their centenary project on urban futures.
Information regarding postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD in the School of Arts and Humanities may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School
Professor Worrall is a Fellow of the English Association and is on the Peer Review College of the AHRC.
Selected publications
- Drama. Worrall D in J Farlak and JM Wright (eds) A handbook of Romanticism Studies, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 177-194
- Inconvenient truths: Re-historicizing the politics of dissent and antinomianism. Worrall D in M Crosby, T Patenaude and A Whitehead (eds) Re-Envisioning Blake, Palgrave McMillan, 2012
- William Blake, the female prophet and the American agent: the evidence of the Swedenborgian east cheap conference. Worrall D in J Mee and S Haggarty (eds) Blake and Conflict, Palgrave McMillan, 2009, 48-64
- Chinese Indians: a James Gillray print, Covent Garden's The Loves of Bengal and the eighteenth-century Asian economic ascendancy. Worrall D, European Romantic Review, 2008, 19, 105-112
- Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures. Worrall D, Oxford University Press, 2006
- The Politics of Romantic Theatricality: The Road to the Stage. Worrall D, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment. Worrall D, Pickering and Chatto, 2007
For full list click 'Go to David Worrall's publications link' above.
