David Norbrook

David Norbrook (born 1 June 1950) was Merton Professor of English literature at Oxford University from 2002 to 2014, and is now an Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.^[1] He specializes in literature, politics and historiography in the early modern period, and in early modern women's writing. He is currently writing a biography and edition of Lucy Hutchinson. He teaches in literary theory and early modern texts, in early modern women writers, and in Shakespeare, Milton and Marvell. Before his current role, he taught at the University of Maryland.

Norbrook was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, the University of Aberdeen and Balliol College, Oxford. He became fellow and tutor in English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1978, and offered some support to the radical pressure group Oxford English Limited in the late 1980s.^[2] He is the author of Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance,^[3] Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660,^[4] and The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse.^[5]