Dr Colley studied at Oxford before coming to St John's as a Research Fellow in 2023. His first and second books are published with Oxford University Press. He is now working on a new monograph on early modern drama, titled Muteness and Mute Characters from Antiquity to the Age of Shakespeare.
Dr Colley has taught Part IA paper 2 (Shakespeare), Part IB paper 5 (1500-1700), and Part II paper 8 (material Renaissance) for English undergraduates at St John's. He has also supervised Part IB and Part II dissertations on late medieval and early modern topics.
His main research interests are: Classical reception; Renaissance drama; translation; neo-Latin; incunabula and early print; and manuscript studies.
Muteness and Mute Characters from Antiquity to the Age of Shakespeare (in preparation).
Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430–1560 (Oxford University Press, 2025).
The Coniuracion of Lucius Sergius Catelina: An Early Tudor Translation of Sallust’s ‘Bellum Catilinae’, EETS o.s. 366 (Oxford University Press, 2025).
