Philip Schwyzer (born 19 April 1970) is an American author and Professor of Renaissance Literature and Culture at Exeter University.[1] Raised in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Dr. Schwyzer received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an M.Phil from Lincoln College, Oxford.
His book Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature, explored images of exhumation and excavation texts including Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Donne's sermons and Browne's Hydriotaphia[1] Further publications include Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales, Cambridge, (2005). He is currently working on a book about Shakespeare's Richard III.
He has co-authored sister guides to the Norton Anthology of English Literature and has contributed biographies to the Dictionary of National Biography including Arthur Kelton and Thomas Phaer (Phayer). Books that he has co-edited include Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic Archipelago (with Simon Mealor) Ashgate, 2004. His most recent collaboration is the 2010 anthology Shakespeare and Wales, with Willy Maley.
Dr. Schwyzer is married and has three children. He is the son of the late philosopher Hubert Schwyzer, the younger brother of the feminist academic and writer Hugo Schwyzer, and the nephew of Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, the Austrian correspondent for The Tablet.