In his spare time he is a passionate advocate of two suddenly slightly fashionable causes, Nottingham Forest Football Club and progressive rock music. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals English Literature and History, Medieval English Theatre, Research in Medieval and Renaissance Drama, Anglica, and Reformation. Member of the judging panel, The RHS Sir John Neale Essay Prize, 2015-2021.Member of the Steering Group on indicators of integrity, UKRI Committee on Research Integrity, 2023-24.Member of the Research England Advisory Group for the School of Advanced Studies, London, 2023.Member of the English Association Higher Education Committee and a Trustee of the English Association.Dean of the Scottish Universities International Summer School.Chair of the Judges for the James Tait Black Drama Prize.
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He is co-editor, with Elaine Treharne, of the Oxford Textual Perspectives monograph series (Oxford University Press), and he co-edited, with Martin Stannard, the series, Studies in European Cultural Transition (Ashgate). He chaired the English Language and Literature sub-panel for REF 2021. He is a former Chair of the Council for College and University English (what is now University English) and a member of the RAE subpanel for 2008 and the ‘Impact’ pilot panel in 2010, and was Deputy Chair of the English Language and Literature sub-panel for REF 2014. He was a member of the AHRC Council and chaired its Advisory Board for ten years from 2010 to 2020.
Professor Walker is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the English Association, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Agder Academy of Arts and Sciences (Norway), and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an elected member of Academia Europaea. He was the Head of Edinburgh's School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures between 20.
He gained a BA in English and History and a PhD in early-Tudor literature and history from the University of Southampton, was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Southampton and has also taught at the Universities of Queensland and Buckingham. Before that he was Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture and Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester. Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, having previously been the Masson Professor of English at Edinburgh.
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