Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow.

He has published widely on Renaissance literature, and on aspects of early modern and modern Scottish and Irish culture. He is editor, with Andrew Hadfield and Brendan Bradshaw, of Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534-1660 (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and with Andrew Hadfield of A View of the Present State of Ireland: From the First Published Edition (Blackwell, 1997), and author of A Spenser Chronology (Macmillan, 1994), and Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (Macmillan, 1997). In the field of Theory, he is editor, with Bart Moore-Gilbert and Gareth Stanton, of Postcolonial Criticism (Longman, 1997), and has written on Derrida, Eagleton, Fanon, Foucault, Gates, hooks, Lloyd and JanMohamed, and Lyotard.

Current Research interests include early modern and modern national identities, postcolonialism, and contemporary Irish and Scottish fiction.

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