Liam Thomas Daley

Liam specializes in medieval and early modern literature, with an emphasis on drama. His dissertation,"Staging the Middle Ages: History and Form in Early Modern English Drama," (defended in May 2022) explores the fraught difference between literature and history, and why those definitions change between the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

His teaching at the University of Maryland includes courses on Shakespeare, queer literature, playwriting, and college composition. In June 2020 Liam staged a virtual Renaissance history reading for Brave Spirits Theatre Company. He also presented material at seminars hosted by the Shakespeare Association of American and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Prior to this, he was awarded a Stanley Wells Fellowship by the American Friends of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 2019.

Prior to his doctoral studies, Liam received a Master of Letters in Shakespeare Studies from St. Andrews University, Scotland. He has been teaching English since 2008 at colleges including Washington College, the Art Institute of Philadelphia, Community College of Philadelphia, and Signum University.

Areas of Specialization:  Medieval and Early Modern literature; Shakepeare; Drama and Performance; Form; Historicist literary theory; Literature's engagements with history.