Frank Brownlow

F.W. Brownlow, Gwen and Allen Smith Professor of English, has taught Chaucer, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Romantic Literature, and Literary Criticism at Mount Holyoke, but his specialty is in Shakespeare and the Renaissance. At present he teaches courses in Shakespeare, the Renaissance, English literary history, and the Baroque in English Literature.

Brownlow has written books on Shakespeare and Robert Southwell and edited John Skelton's The Book of the Laurel (1991). His numerous reviews cover both contemporary British and early modern subjects, and include pieces on Malcolm Muggeridge, Cyril Connolly, and W. B. Yeats. He is currently at work on a book about Elizabeth I and the torturer Richard Topcliffe, while continuing to edit Skelton and Southwell.