Rate My Professor Drew Milne

Professor Drew Milne is the Judith E Wilson Professor in Poetics in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. He holds the degrees of BA, MA, and PhD. As a Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Corpus Christi College, he also serves as Keeper of the Lewis Collection. His research interests include comparative drama, poetry and critical theory, with an emphasis on modernism and its legacies in contemporary writing, especially Samuel Beckett, and aspects of Renaissance drama, such as Shakespeare in performance. Current research projects encompass ecological poetics and politics, performance and performance criticism, modernist poetics, Shakespeare in performance, Marxist literary theory, contemporary poetry and poetics, and recent British drama. He supervises graduate students in areas such as eco-poetics and ecocritical theory, comparative drama, political theatre and performance analysis, Marxist literary theory, and modernism and its legacies, with special attention to authors including Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, Hugh MacDiarmid, W.S. Graham, Frank O'Hara, I.H. Finlay, Muriel Spark, John Cage, Susan Howe, Harold Pinter, and Caryl Churchill.

Professor Milne has edited key anthologies, including Modern Critical Thought: An Anthology of Theorists Writing on Theorists (Blackwell, 2003) and, with Terry Eagleton, Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader (Blackwell, 1996). His poetry collections include Go Figure (Salt, 2003), Mars Disarmed (The Figures, 2002), The Damage: new and selected poems (Salt, 2001), Bench Marks (Alfred David Editions, 1998), and Sheet Mettle (Alfred David Editions, 1994). Notable scholarly contributions feature 'Modernist poetry in the British Isles' in The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 'Politics and Modernist Poetics' in Teaching Modernist Poetry (Palgrave, 2010), 'Performance over being: Frank O'Hara's Artifice' in Textual Practice (2011), 'Muriel Spark's crimes of wit' in Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and 'Neo-modernism and avant-garde orientations' in A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). He is an editor-in-chief of New Theatre Quarterly.