Paul Innes

Dr Paul Innes is an academic specialising in Shakespeare and his contemporaries with further interests in the western classical tradition. Born in Scotland, he earned his MA in English Literature from Glasgow University and a PhD for his thesis on Shakespeare's sonnets from the University of Stirling. His first academic position was teaching English Literature for the British Council at Warsaw University in the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall. During this time he adapted his thesis into his first monograph "Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet: Verses of Feigning Love" (1997) for Palgrave Macmillan. Upon his return to Britain Paul taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Glasgow and published four more books: "Shakespeare: The Barriers Removed" (2005); "Class and Society in Shakespeare" (2007); "Epic" (2013); and "Shakespeare's Roman Plays" (2015). He has also published widely in journals and edited collections and has written many reviews of academic books. He has been interviewed on Shakespeare for BBC Newsnight Scotland, Scottish Television and for radio both in Britain and overseas. He has taught across the range of literature in English from the Late Middle Ages up to contemporary fiction and drama. Paul became Head of Literary and Critical Studies at the University of Gloucestershire where he taught Renaissance Literature and Modern Drama and is now Professor of English at the United Arab Emirates University in the city of Al Ain in Abu Dhabi emirate. His writing is informed by a longstanding engagement with Literary and Critical Theory and he is currently researching discourses of empire in English Renaissance writing.