Alan Stewart

Alan Stewart writes on early modern literature, history, and culture. He is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York and International Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London (www.livesandletters.ac.uk). His publications include Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England (1997); Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon 1561-1626 (with Lisa Jardine, 1998); Philip Sidney: A Double Life (2000); The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I (2003); Letterwriting in Renaissance England (with Heather Wolfe, 2004) and Shakespeare's Letters (2008). With Garrett Sullivan, he is co-general editor of a new three volume Encyclopdia of English Renaissance Literature, published by Wiley-Blackwell in January 2012. Most recently, he has edited volume I, Early Writings 1584-1596, of the Oxford Francis Bacon for Oxford University Press (September 2012). He has won awards from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in 2011-2012 he was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. His forthcoming publications include Writing Lives in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press) and the Broadview Anthology of Tudor Drama.