Dr Harvey Wiltshire (BA Hons, MA Dist, PGCAP : Royal Holloway; PhD: UCL) is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, and Inclusive Pedagogies, having joined the English Department at Royal Holloway in 2021. Previously, Harvey has taught at UCL, where he was awarded his PhD in 2019, and Queen Mary, London. He is currently the Admissions Tutor for the Dept. of English, having previously been School Director of Undergraduate Recuitment for the School of Humanities. 

Harvey's teaching and research specialisms cover early modern medicine and embodiment, witchcraft, and crisis. He has published on blood and economic theory in The Merchant of Venice and the work of William Harvey, on trauma theory and Shakespeare’s narrative poems, Kingship in Richard III, tear imagery in the poetry of John Donne, and co-edited a collection of essays exploring the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the humanities for UCL Press. He regularly publishes for teaching/pedogogical journals and magazines. 

Harvey teaches on/convenes a range of early modern courses, including EN1106 Shakespeare, EN2010 Literature 1525-1670, EN2011 Intensive Shakespeare, EN2/3014 Early Modern Bodies, and EN2/3012 Drama and Witchcraft, as well as the first year survey course EN1105: Literature and Crisis.