Conal Condren

Biography

Emeritus Scientia Professor Conal Condren. Research interests: intellectual history and its philosophy, with especial reference to early modern political argument, political conceptualisation, word-use and language change; political satire and humour, with especial reference to historical understanding and the formalities of conceptualisation. Most recent books of 10 books on these areas of interest: Political Vocabularies: Word Change and the Nature of Politics (Rochester University Press, 2017) Between Laughter and Satire: Aspects of the Historical Study of Humour (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). He has also edited or co-edited 6 volumes and published over  80 papers in professional journals or edited collections. He is currently working on a monograph, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Office. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities,  of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the Royal Society of New South Wales. He is a Member of Clare Hall and of Churchill College Cambridge, was an Associate of the Erasmus Centre for Early Modern Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and an Honorary Professor in the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland. He has been a Seminar Director at the Folger Shakespeare Library and a Francis Bacon Fellow at the Huntingdon Library and given invited lectures in Australasia, Japan, Europe the United Kingdom and the United States.