Bill's field of original research is the intersection of early modern literature and culture, where literary trends reveal historical realities. His two main research interests so far have encompassed the relationship between metadrama and the insidious figure of the informer and contemporary literary depictions of physical crossroads as places of transformation and binding.
His teaching and supervisory interests are in drama and other literatures centred around the era of the Elizabethan and Stuart monarchies, 1558-1714, and is looking forward to welcoming research proposals in these broad areas.
