Dr Peter Happe
Visiting Fellow
Dr Peter Happe is a Visiting Fellow in English at the University of Southampton.
My first degree was in English at Queens' College, Cambridge (1955); after a Certificate in Education, I gained an MA in English at Birkbeck College, London, followed by a London PhD I have taught English at a variety of schools and colleges, and was appointed Principal of Rutland Sixth Form College and later of Barton Peveril Sixth Form College; I have also been a Tutor and Associate Lecturer of the Open University since 1983, taught undergraduate courses at Cambridge, Southampton, and Tours Universities, and supervised PhD students at Southampton and Tours. I was a visiting professor of the University of Tours in 1994, and was awarded the Medal of Honour of the City of Tours in 2002; I held a Hartley Fellowship at the University of Southampton in 1995-6, and was a Research Associate at the Open University from 1996-9.
I have published extensively on medieval and early Renaissance drama.