School of Culture and Communication

Research interests

Shakespeare, Marlowe and early modern drama more generally; voyage drama in particular; theatre history; lost plays; repertory studies; early modern travel.

Biography

David McInnis completed his Master of Arts at the University of Toronto and his PhD at the University of Melbourne. He is currently preparing a critical edition of Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus (1599) for the Revels Plays series, and is editing Dekker's The Wonderful Year and The Magnificent Entertainment (1603) with Brett D. Hirsch for a forthcoming anthology. With Roslyn L. Knutson, he edits the Lost Plays Database, and in 2011 he was awarded a short-term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC to pursue research on lost plays.

He is an executive committee member and bulletin editor for the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA); an executive committee member, book review editor, and current Roma Gill Award Committee member for the Marlowe Society of America (MSA); the Australian/NZ Treasurer for The Malone Society; and the Australian affiliate of the World Shakespeare Bibliography online.

Current research

• A critical edition of Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus (1599) for the Revels Plays series (Manchester University Press)
• The Lost Plays Database: with Roslyn L. Knutson, I co-edit a wiki-style forum designed to allow scholars to contribute snippets of knowledge or conjecture about probable sources or storylines, genres, authorship, and theatrical provenance for the lost plays of the English Renaissance
• The Marlowe Bibliography Online: with Gayle Allan, I edit a fully searchable and annotated bibliography of Marlowe scholarship, co-hosted by the Marlowe Society of America (MSA) and the University of Melbourne
• Critical editions of Dekker's A Wonderful Year (1603) and Jonson/Dekker's The Magnificent Entertainment (1603) for Stages of Transition: Plays and Texts from the 1603-1604 London Theater Season, gen. ed. Matteo Pangallo (forthcoming 2015)
  
  

Teaching

• THTR20021 Shakespeare in Performance (Coordinator)
• ENGL10001 Modern and Contemporary Literature (Coordinator)
• ENGL10002 Literature and Performance (Coordinator)

Publications

    

Books

• McInnis, David. Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
• McInnis, David (ed.,). Thomas Dekker. Old Fortunatus. Manchester: MUP, forthcoming 2015. The Revels Plays series
  
  

Edited books/Journals

• Wilkinson, Jessica L., Parisot, Eric  and McInnis, David (eds.,). Refashioning Myth: Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011
• McInnis, David and Hirsch, Brett D. (ed.,). "Embodying Shakespeare," in Early Modern Literary Studies, Special Issue 19, 2009
  
  

Book chapters

• McInnis, David. "Webs of Engagement," in Carson, Christie and Kirwan, Peter (eds.,). Shakespeare and the Digital. Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming
• McInnis, David. "'All beauty must die': The Aesthetics of Murder from Thomas De Quincey to Nick Cave," in Romanets, Maryna and Dickson, Lisa (eds.,). Beauty, Violence, Representation. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series, forthcoming
• McInnis, David. "Repetition and Revision in Shakespeare's Tragic Love Plays," in Lee, Michelle (ed.,). Shakespearean Criticism 141. Detroit: Gale Cengage, 2012. pp. 239-250 (reprinted from Parergon 25.2, 2008)
• McInnis, David. "Sparagmós Averted: Myth-Making and Innovation in the Auchinleck Manuscript romance, Sir Orfeo," in Wilkinson, Jessica L.; Parisot, Eric and McInnis, David (eds.,). Refashioning Myth: Poetic Transformations & Metamorphoses. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp. 33-48
• McInnis, David. "Virginian culture and experimental genre in Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter," in Wallwork, Jo and Salzman, Paul (eds.,). Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011, pp. 89-106
• McInnis, David. "'[S]ome oracle must rectify our knowledge': Uses of Knowledge in the New World and The Tempest," in Chalk, Darryl and Johnson, Laurie (eds.,). Rapt in Secret Studies: Emerging Shakespeares. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp. 11-30
  
  

Articles

• McInnis, David. "The Year's Work in Marlowe Studies," in Marlowe Studies: An Annual 3 (2013): forthcoming.
• McInnis, David. "Marlowe's Influence  and 'The True History of George Scanderbeg'," in Marlowe Studies: An Annual 2 (2012), pp. 71-85
• McInnis, David. "Therapeutic Travel in Richard Brome's The Antipodes." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 52.2 (Spring 2012), pp. 447-69
• McInnis, David. "Lost Plays from Early Modern England: Voyage Drama, A Case Study," in Literature Compass 8/8 (2011), pp. 534-42
• Knutson, Roslyn and McInnis, David. "The Lost Plays Database: A Wiki for Lost Plays," in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 24 (2011), pp. 46-57
• McInnis, David. "Mind-Travelling, Ideal Presence and the Imagination in Early Modern England," in McInnis, David and Hirsch, Brett D. (eds.,). Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 19, (2009), 7.1-23
• McInnis, David and Hirsch, Brett D. "Embodying Shakespeare: Introduction," in McInnis, David and Hirsch, Brett D. (eds.,). Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 19, (2009), 1.1-13
• McInnis, David. "Re-orienting the Gothic Romance: Jean Rhys, Tayeb Salih, and Strategies of Representation in the 'Postcolonial Gothic'," in Ariel 39.3 (2008), pp. 85-105
• McInnis, David. "Repetition and Revision in Shakespeare's Tragic Love Plays," in Parergon 25.2 (2008), pp. 33-56
• McInnis, David. "The Golden Man and the Golden Age: The Relationship of English Poets and the New World Reconsidered," in Early Modern Literary Studies 13.1 (May, 2007), 1.1-20.
• McInnis, David. "'All beauty must die': The Aesthetics of Murder, from Thomas De Quincey to Nick Cave," in Traffic 8 (2006), pp. 117-138
  
  

Notes

• McInnis, David. "Cupid's Grand Polititian (1657)," in Early Theatre 16.2 (2013). Forthcoming
• McInnis, David. "Jonson's Hand in Holyday's Technogamia?" in Bevington, David; Butler, Martin and Donaldson, Ian (Gen ed). The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (Electronic Edition). Cambridge: CUP, 2013
• McInnis, David. "Evidence of a Lost Tarlton Play, c. 1585, Probably for The Queen's Men," in Notes & Queries 59.1 (March 2012), pp. 43-45
• McInnis, David and Steggle, Matthew. "Folger MS X.d.390 (1-2), and Folger MS X.d.391," in Notes & Queries 58.3 (Sept 2011), pp. 374-76
• McInnis, David. "Fortunatus and the 'Tree of Gowlden Apelles' in Henslowe's Inventory,"  in Notes & Queries 58.2 (June 2011), pp. 270-72
• McInnis, David. "Old World sources for Ariel in The Tempest," in Notes & Queries 55.2 (June 2008), pp. 208-213
• McInnis, David. "Dryden's MAC FLECKNOE," in The Explicator 66.2 (Winter 2008), pp. 71-73
• McInnis, David. "The Apples in Marvell's 'Bermudas'," in Notes & Queries 54.4 (December 2007), pp. 418-19
• McInnis, David. "Humoral Theory as an Organizing Principle in Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'?" in ANQ 20.2 (Spring 2007), pp. 32-34
• McInnis, David. "Shakespeare's HAMLET," in The Explicator 65.2 (Winter 2007), pp. 68-71
• McInnis, David. "On Cleopatra's 'strange invisible perfume'," in Cahiers Élisabéthains 69 (Spring 2006), p. 51
  
  

Reviews

• McInnis, David. "John H. Astington, Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time: The Art of Stage Playing. Cambridge: CUP, 2010," in Shakespeare Quarterly 64.1 (2013), pp. 121-23
• McInnis, David. "Evelyn B. Tribble, Cognition in the Globe: Attention and Memory in Shakespeare's Theatre. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011," in The Marlowe Society of America Newsletter 32.1 (2012), pp. 9-10
• McInnis, David. "Helen Ostovich, Graham Roebuck, and Mary V. Silcox (eds.), The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008," in EMLS 15.1 (2009-10), pp. 19.1-6
• McInnis, David. "Smith, D. K. The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England: Re-writing the World in Marlowe, Spenser, Raleigh and Marvell. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 204 pages," in The Marlowe Society of America Newsletter 28.1 (2008), pp. 10-11
  
  

Research fellowships

• Faculty of Arts Research Grant (2012)
• Dyason Fellowship (University of Melbourne) (2012-13)
• Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) Research Travel Grant (2012)
• Folger Shakespeare Library Short-Term Fellowship (Washington D.C., 2011)
  
  

Professional organisations

• Australian & New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA)    
  • Vice President
  • Executive committee member
  • Bulletin editor

• The Marlowe Society of America (MSA)   
  • Executive committee member
  • Book review editor
  • Roma Gill Prize judging committee member 

• World Shakespeare Bibliography
• • Committee of Correspondents (Australian affiliate)

• Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)

• International Shakespeare Association (ISA)

• The Malone Society
• • Council Member
  • Treasurer (Australia & New Zealand)