John Drakakis, M.A., B.A. (Wales), Ph.D. (Leeds), Dip.Ed. FEA, was appointed to Stirling in 1970, some three years after the University had opened. Since arriving at Stirling he has taught and continue to teach undergraduate courses in Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, and Renaissance Literature, and in Critical Theory. One of the fi rsts in U.K. A founder member of the Department of Film and Media Studies, he was Chair of the committee when it became a full department of Stirling University in 1985. As an Emeritus Professor, he is constantly invited in a number of countries across the world to deliver lectures on Renaissance Drama in a number of countries across the world.
