Gary Taylor (Linguist)

Gary Taylor (born 1953 ) is the George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University . He is one of the editors of The Oxford Shakespeare series and the Oxford University Press edition of Thomas Middleton's works .

Life

Taylor graduated from the University of Kansas and received her PhD from the University of Cambridge . He worked with Stanley Wells from 1978 to 1986 on the publication of the Oxford Shakespeare Edition. He has lectured at Oxford University , the Catholic University of America , Brandeis University (where he was Head of the English Language Department) and the University of Alabama . From 1995 to 2005 he directed the "Hudson Strode Program" for studies on the Renaissance . In 2005 he was appointed to the English Language Department at Florida State University . There he heads the interdisciplinary program "History of Text Technologies". Taylor has done research on Shakespeare , | Middleton, early modern culture, canon building, ethnocentrism, and androcentrism. He is best known for his work on "New Bibliography", for which he has received grants from the Folger Shakespeare Library , the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Taylor has worked with John Lavagnino for many years on the publication of The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton , which was published by Oxford University Press in 2007.

Selected Works

• Gary Taylor and Michael Warren, (Eds.) The Division of the Kingdoms (1983).
• Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (with John Jowett and William Montgomery), William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (1987).
• Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present (1989).
• Gary Taylor and John Jowett, Shakespeare Reshaped 1606-1623 (1993).
• Cultural Selection (1996).
• Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood (2000).
• Buying Whiteness: Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip Hop (2005).
• William Shakespeare, Complete Works , eds. Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, and William Montgomery (1986, Rev. 2005).
• John Fletcher , The Tamer Tamed , eds. Celia R. Daileader and Gary Taylor (2006).
• Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture , eds. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (2007).
• The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton , eds. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (2007).

Web links

• Florida State University, Department of English, Faculty Page for Gary Taylor
• "No Holds Barred" , Guardian , February 21 of 2006.
• "We have to protect people" , Guardian , December 9 of 2004.
• “You vile, hopeless, incompetent Brits” , Guardian , December 10, 2003.
• World-Cat Identity for Gary Taylor

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brian Vickers: By other hands ( English ) The Times Literary Supplement. August 11, 2006. Archived from the original on August 11, 2006. Retrieved April 1, 2009.