Professor Emerita Margaret Tudeau-Clayton holds a BA and PhD in English Literature from King’s College, Cambridge (UK). She taught at the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne and Zürich, before being appointed to the chair in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Neuchâtel in 2006 which she occupied until her retirement in 2018.

She is author of Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil (Cambridge University Press, 1998; repr. pbk 2006), Shakespeare’s Englishes: against Englishness (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and numerous articles and chapters on English Renaissance literature, especially translations of the classics and Shakespeare. She has also published work on Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf. A groundbreaking essay on Woolf and the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky was published in the Times Literary Supplement in November 2018. She has co-edited four collections of essays: the first with Martin Warner, Addressing Frank Kermode (1991); the second, with Philippa Berry, Textures of Renaissance Knowledge (2003); the third, with Willy Maley, This England, that Shakespeare (2010) and the fourth with Martin Hilpert, The Challenge of Change (2018). Her recently published work includes a chapter on the invention of the English climate and ‘constitution’, an article on the use of the word ‘now’ in early modern drama, especially Shakespeare and a chapter from her current book project on Shakespeare and messianic time.