Andrew R. Walkling
Professor
Background
Andrew Walkling's research and teaching interests focus on early modern Britain, with an emphasis on the English court and courtly cultural production in the late seventeenth century, and are situated within and among several disciplines, including history, visual and material culture, literary studies, performance studies and musicology. In particular, he is an expert on seventeenth-century English musical theatre and on the composer Henry Purcell.
His work explores early modern cultural materials from an interdisciplinary perspective, seeking to rethink the configurations and interrelationships of conventionally separate genres鈥攙isual, dramatic, literary, musical鈥攁nd to understand them as part of a wider "textuality" deployed in the construction and dissemination of seventeenth-century absolutism.
Selected Publications
- Masque and Opera in England, 1656鈥1688 (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera Series; Routledge, 2017)
- English Dramatick Opera, 1661鈥1706 (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera Series; Routledge, 2019)
- Matthew Locke and Christopher Gibbons, Cupid and Death (co-edited with Robert Thompson), 鈥淢usica Britannica鈥 series (London: Stainer and Bell for the Royal Musical Association, forthcoming)
- articles on Restoration drama, music publication, court studies, and Henry Purcell鈥檚 Dido and Aeneas
Education
- MA, PhD, Cornell University
- BA, Dartmouth
Research Interests
- Seventeenth-Century British History
- Visual Culture
- Literary Studies
- Performance Studies
- Musicology
Clinical Interests
- Early music performance practice
Teaching Interests
- Early Modern London: Architecture, Sound and Space
- Music and Text in 17th-Century England
- The Masque in 17th-Century England
- British Painting from Holbein to Hogarth
- Courses in English literature: The English Civil War; Restoration; Augustanism
- Graduate seminars on British art, architecture, and print culture; 17th-century English literature; early modern theatre history and dramatic theory
Awards
- Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2023鈥2024
- Research fellowships from Yale Center for British Art (2011), Folger Shakespeare Library (2011 and 2017), William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (2011 and 2017), Huntington Library (2016), Harry Ransom Center (2017), and Houghton Library, Harvard University (2017)
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2010鈥2011
- University's Outstanding Graduate Director Award, 2008鈥2009