Research Interests
- Nineteenth-century constructions of authorship: work, style, craft
- Arts and Crafts thinkers, including related literary, museological, and practical contexts
- Modernist poetry, esp. Victorian influences and legal contexts
Professor Marcus Waithe
Marcus Waithe is Professor of Literature and the Applied Arts in the Faculty of English, and a Fellow and College Librarian at Magdalene College.
He is a Director of the Design & Build company that planned the College’s RIBA national award and RIBA Stirling Prize winning New Library. He is an external member of the Advisory Board of The Ruskin Library, Museum and Research Centre, Lancaster University; and in 2022, he became the Chair of The Ruskin Society.
Before returning to Cambridge in 2009, he held the post of Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Sheffield (from 2005), having graduated from King's College, Cambridge with a Ph.D. in 2004. He was an undergraduate at the University of Leeds, and before that attended state schools in Essex.
Qualifications
PhD (Cantab); MA (Leeds)
Selected Publications
For a list of publications, please refer to Prof. Waithe’s page at the Faculty of English.