Professor Raphael Lyne
Raphael Lyne is Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Faculty of English and ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, University of Cambridge.
Raphael Lyne joined the College in 1998 and has taught renaissance literature, Shakespeare, and Tragedy ever since. Since 2018 he has been Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Faculty of English, and between 2021 and 2024 served as Chair of the Faculty. In 2018 he gave the British Academy Shakespeare Lecture at the Globe Theatre in London.
Research Interests
Most of my early research focused on the classical influences of English writers in the 16th and 17th centuries. After that, I focused more on Shakespeare, and then on the connections between literary criticism and cognitive science. This has led me to write about various authors (often Shakespeare) and such psychological topics as memory, recognition, mind-wandering, prediction, touch, and mutuality.
Degrees
- PhD in English, University of Cambridge