Brian Walsh is a Master Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences, and is currently the Assistant Director of the Core Curriculum. As a teaching generalist, he is committed to the Core Curriculum mission of introducing students to great writings and artworks from a range of time periods and cultures across the globe. He teaches the Core humanities sequence (CC 101, CC 102, CC 201, CC 202), as well as CC 320, a hands-on, multimedia deep dive into Core texts. For the English Department, he teaches courses on Shakespeare, and for the Writing program he has taught courses on film and other topics.
Professor Walsh’s scholarship focuses on Shakespearean drama and on film adaptations of literature. He is the author of two books: Unsettled Toleration: Religious Difference on the Shakespearean Stage (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Shakespeare, the Queen’s Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History (Cambridge University Press, 2009; paperback, 2013). He has also published several articles and book chapters on Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights. He is the editor of The Revenger’s Tragedy: A Critical Reader (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016), and of a new edition of The Famous Victories of Henry V in The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama (2020).
He has recently published articles on Rahm, a Pakistani film version of Measure for Measure, on the surprising power of the word “mote” in Hamlet, on the film adaptation of August Wilson’s Fences , and on Haider, an Indian film adaptation of Hamlet.
He has recently published articles on Rahm, a Pakistani film version of Measure for Measure, on the surprising power of the word “mote” in Hamlet, on the film adaptation of August Wilson’s Fences , and on Haider, an Indian film adaptation of Hamlet.