Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell, MA, DPhil, DLitt, Dr hc, FSA, FRHistS, FRGS, FRAS, is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University of Leicester. His research interests are centred in the history and culture of Renaissance Europe, and his specialist interest is in John Milton. In the past ten years Professor Campbell has edited Milton's Complete Poems (Everyman), compiled his life records in A Milton Chronology (Macmillan), published a revised edition of the standard biography by W.R. Parker (Oxford University Press) and written ten ODNB articles on Milton and his circle; he has also edited four plays by Ben Jonson (OUP) and the poems and documents of Edward King, Milton's 'Lycidas'. This year he has published a short biography of Milton (in OUP's VIP Collection) and a multi-authored monograph on Milton and the manuscript of ‘De Doctrina Christiana’ (OUP). His present projects, in collaboration with Thomas Corns, include a new full-length biography of Milton (OUP, 2008) and a 12-volume edition of Milton’s works (OUP, 2008-2010). He is also writing a history of the King James Bible (the ‘Authorised Version’) for Oxford University Press, to be published together with an edition of the 1611 Bible as part of the quatercentenary celebrations in 2011.
Professor Campbell edited Renaissance Studies (OUP) for ten years and was for five years series editor of Essays and Studies (Boydell and Brewer). His recent reference books, all for OUP, include The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (2003), Renaissance Art and Architecture (2004), The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts (2 vols, 2006) and The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture (2 vols, 2007); the next in this series will be The Grove Encyclopedia of the Northern Renaissance (2 vols, 2009), which may be followed by one on the Spanish Golden Age.
Professor Campbell has served as Chairman of the Society for Renaissance Studies and President of the English Association.