Role
Professor David Worrall is an Emeritus Professor of English and continues to carry out research in Romantic period studies.
Research areas
Professor Worrall's research interests include:
- Georgian Drama
- William Blake
- Romantic period sub-cultures.
External activity
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.
Professor Worrall is a Fellow of the English Association and is on the Peer Review College for the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Sponsors and collaborators
Professor Worrall's current and recent research is being conducted with the collaboration, funding and / or support of: the AHRC, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.
Publications
Selected publications
- Celebrity Performance, Reception: British Georgian Drama as Social Assemblage. Worrall D, 2013, Cambridge University Press
- Theatre in the combat zone: British military theatricals at Philadelphia 1778. Worrall D in (eds) Fay E and Von Morze L, Urban Identity and the Atlantic World, 2013, Palgrave Macmillan
- 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, 2012, Palgrave McMillan
- 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, 2009, Palgrave McMillan, 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
- The Politics of Romantic Theatricality: The Road to the Stage. Worrall D, 2007, Palgrave Macmillan
- Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment. Worrall D, 2007, Pickering and Chatto
- Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures. Worrall D, 2006, Oxford University Press