John Kerrigan

Who is John Kerrigan?

John Kerrigan is Professor of English 2000, University of Cambridge.

John Kerrigan was born in Liverpool; he was educated there at St. Edward's College followed by Oxford where he went to Keble later becoming a Junior Research Fellow at Merton.

Since 1982 he has taught at Cambridge where he is a fellow of St. John's College. He has lectured extensively in Europe, North and South America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and his publications on Shakespeare, early modern literature, and modern British and Irish poetry are internationally acclaimed. Recent visiting positions include UCLA and Auckland.

During the 1980s Kerrigan established himself as one of a group of scholars who revolutionised the editing of Shakespeare by discrediting the practice of 'conflating' variant editions of such plays as Hamlet and King Lear. His own editions include Love's Labour's Lost and Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint. He did further work on A Lover's Complaint recovering its sources and analogues in Motives of Woe.