Tim Cribb

TIM CRIBB is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, where he recently retired as Director of Studies in English and Tutor for Advanced Students. He was an undergraduate at Cambridge, a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Minnesota and a postgraduate at Oxford, where he pursued research on Dickens. Before returning to Cambridge, he was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow.

Throughout the ’60s and ’70s he acted in summer seasons at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall. During 1977-78 he was seconded as Visiting Senior Lecturer to the University of Ife
(Nigeria) where he adapted and directed one of Yeats’s plays for the University theatre company. He has directed a number of productions in Cambridge, including plays by Pablo Neruda, Bertolt Brecht, Wole Soyinka and John Kinsella’s first play, Crop Circles (1998).

Among his other interests are Shakespeare and the Anglophone literature of the Caribbean, especially Wilson Harris and Derek Walcott. He is editor of Imagined Commonwealths: Cambridge Essays on Commonwealth and International Literature in English (Macmillan, 1999) and of The Power of the Word / La Puissance du Verbe (Rodopi, 2006) and author of Bloomsbury and British Theatre: the Marlowe Story (Salt, 2007). He is Senior Treasurer of Cambridge University Marlowe Society.

He is married, with one daughter, and lives in Cambridge.

(2008)