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The following are selected entries; for more detail on these sections and additional information, please see my full CV (PDF) and check out my Google Scholar profile. My teaching portfolio is also available on request.

Academic Employment

• 2024–. Chair (Full Professor) of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies, University of Leeds
• 2021–2024. Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies, University of Leeds
• 2016–2021. University Academic Fellow in Textual Studies and Digital Editing, University of Leeds
• 2013-2016. Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
• 2013-2016. ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
• 2010-2013. University Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Western Australia
• 2009-2010. Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, University of Victoria
• 2009-2010. Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, University of Victoria
• 2007. Assistant Lecturer of English, University of Otago

Education

• 2009. Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
• 2005. B.A. (Hons) in English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia

Research

Work-in-progress (see also current projects)

• (with Hugh Craig) Articles using computational methods to explore matters of authorship (i.e., Marlowe) and style (i.e., foreign languages) in early modern drama.
• A chapter on “New Factualisms” for the revised second edition of Beginning Shakespeare.
• (with Sarah Neville) A chapter on digital editing and editorial sample for Editorial Futures of Early Modern Drama: Theories and Practices, ed. Brandi Adams, Claire M.L. Bourne, Rory Loughnane, and Catherine Richardson.
• A critical edition of Fair Em for Digital Renaissance Editions.
• (with Mark Houlahan) An edition of Hyde Park for the Oxford Complete Works of James Shirley.
• Reproducing Renaissance Drama, a book-length study of the editing and publishing of early modern English plays since the eighteenth century.
• (with Rory Loughnane) A study of the “Canon and Chronology” for the New Oxford Marlowe: Complete Works.
• (with Laurie Johnson) A variorum edition of Macbeth for the New Variorum Shakespeare.

Books

• (with Hugh Craig) Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama: Beyond Authorship. Cambridge UP, 2017. PDF.
• (ed.), Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, and Politics. Open Book Publishers, 2012. Web.
• (ed., with Christopher Wortham), ‘This Earthly Stage’: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Brepols, 2010. Web.

Scholarly editions

• William Shakespeare, Othello (The First Quarto). Ed. Brett Greatley-Hirsch and Rory Loughnane. New Oxford Shakespeare: Complete Alternative Versions: Modern Critical Edition. Ed. Gary Taylor, Gabriel Egan, and Terri Bourus. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2027.
• William Shakespeare, Othello (The First Quarto). Ed. Brett Greatley-Hirsch and Rory Loughnane. New Oxford Shakespeare: Complete Alternative Versions: Critical Reference Edition. Ed. Gary Taylor, Gabriel Egan, and Terri Bourus. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2027.
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet (The First Folio). Ed. Brett Greatley-Hirsch and Janelle Jenstad. New Oxford Shakespeare: Complete Alternative Versions: Modern Critical Edition. Ed. Gary Taylor, Gabriel Egan, and Terri Bourus. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2027.
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet (The First Folio). Ed. Brett Greatley-Hirsch and Janelle Jenstad. New Oxford Shakespeare: Complete Alternative Versions: Critical Reference Edition. Ed. Gary Taylor, Gabriel Egan, and Terri Bourus. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2027.
• William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Rory Loughnane. Introd. Brett Greatley-Hirsch. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2027. Web.
• Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore, Part One. Ed. Joost Daalder. Contrib. Ed. Brett Greatley-Hirsch. Victoria: LEMDO/Digital Renaissance Editions, 2015.
• Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part Two. Ed. Joost Daalder. Contrib. Ed. Brett Greatley-Hirsch. Victoria: LEMDO/Digital Renaissance Editions, 2015.
• A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add 17,492). Ed. Raymond Siemens, Karin Armstrong, and the Devonshire MS Editorial Group. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015.

Selected articles and chapters

• (with Hugh Craig), “Marston’s Marginal Drama.” The Complete Works of John Marston. Gen. ed. Martin Butler and Matthew Steggle. Assoc. ed. José A. Pérez Díez. 4 vols. Oxford UP, 2027. [In press.]
• (with Rachel White), “Doubting Thomas: Attributing the Nashe Dubia.” The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. Gen. ed. Joseph L. Black, Andrew Hadfield, Jennifer Richards, and Cathy Shrank. 6 vols. Oxford UP, 2026. [In press.]
• (with Sarah Neville), “Genre.” The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship. Ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe. Oxford UP, 2025. 377–401. DOI.
• (with Andrew Hadfield and Rachel White), “Upstart Crows and Red Herrings: Thomas Nashe and Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit.” Shakespeare Quarterly 76.2 (2025): 139–64. DOI and data.
• (with Rachel White), “Ass-troll-ogical Nashe: Revisiting Two Dangerous Comets and A Wonderful Prognostication.” Renaissance Studies 38.3 (2024): 335–62. PDF and data.
• “Epicene and the Bearded Woman Saint.” Ben Jonson Journal 31.1 (2024): 94–103. PDF.
• (with Matteo Pangallo and Rachel White), “ ‘Text up his name’: The Authorship of the Manuscript Play Dick of Devonshire.” Studies in Philology 121.1 (2024): 163–87. PDF and data.
• (with Toby Malone) “Digital Shakespeare.” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Gen. ed. Paula Rabinowitz. Oxford UP, 2015–. Published 28 June 2021. Web.
• “Computational Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism. Ed. Evelyn Gajowski. Arden Shakespeare, 2020. 205–21. PDF.
• (with Laurie Johnson) “Shakespeare Source Study in the Age of Google: Revisiting Greenblatt’s Graveyard and Horatio’s Ground.” Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies. Ed. Dennis Austin Britton and Melissa Walter. Routledge, 2018. 253–78. PDF.
• (with Sarah Neville) “‘How apt it is to learn’ – Studying and Teaching Much Ado About Nothing.” Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader. Ed. Deborah Cartmell and Peter J. Smith. Arden Shakespeare, 2018. 175–204. PDF
• (with Jack Elliott) “Arden of Faversham, Shakespearean Authorship, and ‘the print of many.’” The New Oxford Shakespeare: Authorship Companion. Ed. Gary Taylor and Gabriel Egan. Oxford UP, 2017. 139–81. PDF.
• (with Ivan Lupic) “ ‘What stuff is here?’ Edmond Malone and the 1778 Edition of Beaumont and Fletcher.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 111.3 (2017): 287–315. PDF.
• (with Michael Best) “‘Within this Wooden [2.]O’: Shakespeare and New Media in the Digital Age.” The Shakespearean World. Ed. Jill L. Levenson and Robert Ormsby. Routledge, 2017. 443–62. PDF.
• “Jewish Questions in Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London.” Early Theatre 19.1 (2016): 37–56. PDF.
• (with Janelle Jenstad) “Beyond the Text: Digital Editions and Performance.” Shakespeare Bulletin 34.1 (2016): 107–27. PDF.
• “The White Devil: The State of the Art.” The White Devil: A Critical Reader. Ed. Paul Frazer and Adam Hansen. Arden Shakespeare, 2016. 83–106. PDF.
• “Judaism and Jews.” The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare. Vol. 1. Shakespeare’s World, 1500-1660. Gen. ed. Bruce R. Smith. Cambridge UP, 2016. 709–20. PDF.
• “Moving Targets: Constructing Canons, 2013-2014.” Early Theatre 18.1 (2015): 115-31. PDF
• “Three Wax Images, Two Italian Gentlemen, and One English Queen.” Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage. Ed. Lisa Hopkins and Helen Ostovich. Ashgate, 2014. 155–68. PDF.
• (with Hugh Craig) “‘Mingled Yarn’: The State of Computing in Shakespeare 2.0.” Digital Shakespeares: Innovations, Interventions, Mediations, ed. Brett D. Hirsch and Hugh Craig. Special issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook 14 (2014): 3–35. PDF.
• “The Taming of the Jew: Spit and the Civilizing Process in The Merchant of Venice.” Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England. Ed. Rory Loughnane and Edel Semple. Palgrave, 2013. 136–52. PDF.
• “‘To see the Playes of Theatre newe wrought’: Electronic Editions and Early Tudor Drama.” Early Theatre 16.2 (2013): 211–49. PDF.
• “‹/Parentheses›: Digital Humanities and the Place of Pedagogy.” Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, and Politics. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch. Open Book Publishers, 2012. 3–30. Web.
• “The Kingdom Has Been Digitized: Electronic Editions of Renaissance Drama and the Long Shadows of Shakespeare and Print.” Literature Compass 8.9 (2011): 568–91. PDF.
• “Lycanthropy in Early Modern England: The Case of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi.” Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period. Ed. Yasmin Haskell. Brepols. 297–337. PDF.
• “Bringing Richard Brome Online.” Early Theatre 13.1 (2010): 137–53. PDF.
• “From Jew to Puritan: The Emblematic Owl in Early English Culture.” ‘This Earthly Stage’: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham. Brepols, 2010. 131–72. PDF.
• (with David McInnis) “Embodying Shakespeare: Introduction.” Early Modern Literary Studies, Spec. Issue 19 (2009): 1.1–13. Web.
• “Counterfeit Professions: Jewish Daughters and the Drama of Failed Conversion in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.” Early Modern Literary Studies, Spec. Issue 19 (2009): 4.1–37. Web.
• “‘What are these faces?’ Interpreting Bearded Women in Macbeth.” Renaissance Drama and Poetry in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham. Ed. Andrew Lynch and Anne M. Scott. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 91–114. PDF.
• “‘A Gentle and No Jew’: The Difference Marriage Makes in The Merchant of Venice.” Parergon, 23.1 (2006): 119–129. PDF.
• “An Italian Werewolf in London: Lycanthropy and The Duchess of Malfi.” Early Modern Literary Studies, 11.2 (2005): 2.1–34. Web.
• “‘In the likeness of a Jew’: Kabbalah and The Merchant of Venice.” The Ben Jonson Journal, 12 (2005): 119–40. PDF.

Journal special issues

• (ed., with Hugh Craig), Digital Shakespeares: Innovations, Interventions, Mediations. Special issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook 14 (2014). Web.
• (ed., with David McInnis), Embodying Shakespeare. Special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies, Spec. Issue 19 (2009). Web.

Selected digital projects

• Coordinating editor (2006–present). Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE).
• General editor (2013–present). Bibliography of Editions of Early English Drama (BEEED).
• Co-general editor (2020–present, with Rory Loughnane). CADRE: Co-Authored Drama in Renaissance England.
• General textual editor (2019–present, with James Mardock and Sarah Neville). Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO).
• Coordinating editor (2018–present, with Janelle Jenstad, James Mardock, and Sarah Neville). New Internet Shakespeare Editions (NISE).
• Editorial board (2011–present). The Map of Early Modern London.