About

I am Deputy Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Education and an Associate Professor in Early Modern Literature and Print Culture. I support the Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the College in overseeing all aspects of the College’s work. I have more than 20 years of management experience in HE and was previously, Deputy Dean for Research at Anglia Ruskin University in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Professional interests

As an academic leader and manager, I have led projects across teaching and learning, research, knowledge exchange and partnership working. I have led strategic change projects at institutional and faculty level and have particular interests in enhancing and embedding employability, improving student experience, researcher development and research impact. I have experience of leading multiple units in the REF2021 research exercise.

In teaching and learning I am especially interested in developing entrepreneurship and innovation within the curriculum and working with external partners to enhance student employability. My own teaching includes modules on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and on Tragedy but I have taught widely across the English curriculum embedding innovative, authentic assessment to support student learning and employability.

I contribute to a variety of sector bodies including Enterprise Educators UK, the Council for the Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, and the University Policy Engagement Network. I have undertaken reviews for Vitae’s Human Resources Excellence in Research framework and am an AHRC reviewer.

Research interests

My research focuses on early modern/renaissance travel writing and its reception and more widely on the print culture and history of the book in the period. Much of my work looks at the intersection of the literature of travel and book history. I am working on two major projects: a reception history of Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589, 1598-1600) is contracted with Routledge and has benefited from a British Academy Small Grant; and I am co-editor of Volume 9 of the Oxford University Press edition of Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations.

I have published a number of articles and chapters on early modern print culture including items on censorship, printers errors, running titles and republications of texts, and co-edited three volumes of work on print culture.

I am happy to supervise PhDs in the following areas:

• Travel writing
• Manuscript and print culture
• Reception history
• Early modern drama
• Editorial projects

Membership of professional bodies

• 2022-ongoing: Council Member, Hakluyt Society
• 2022-ongoing: Vice-Chair, Council for Deans for Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
• 2015-ongoing: Steering Committee Member Centre for Printing History and Culture
• 2009-2013: Treasurer and Committee Member Print Networks
• Editorial Board Memberships - Publishing History
• Director of Publications - Society for the History of Authorship, Readership and Publications

Recent publications

Edited Collections and Books

• Day, M. and Archer, C. (eds) (2017) Book 2.0 (7:1) Spring 2017 Guest editor
• Day, M. and Hinks, J. (eds) (2012) From Compositors to Collectors. London: British Library and Oak Knoll Press
• Armstrong, C., Day, M., and Hinks, J. (eds) (2009) Periodicals and Publishers: The Newspaper and Journal Trade 1750-1914. London: British Library and Oak Knoll Press

Articles and Chapters in Books

• Day, M.  (2023) ‘‘But to whose charge shall I lay it? Your Printer is all readie loaden” – The rhetoric of printers’ errors in early modern texts’, in Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Antony Grafton and Paolo Sachet (eds) Printing and Misprinting, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.278-292
• Day, M. (2022) ‘“Any Good Reading?” – The Changing Reception of Early Modern Travel Writing’ Hakluyt Society Journal Available at https://www.hakluyt.com/journal-of-the-hakluyt-society/
• Day, M. (2019) ‘From Richard Eden to Everything Everywhere – discourses of travel writing from early modern editors to the contemporary travel blog’ Text – Journal of Writing and Writing Courses Special Issue 56 available at: http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue56/content.htm 
• Day, M.  (2018) ‘Deceit, Self-Interest and Censorship: Problems at the Bookbinders in Early Modern England’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 112:1-25
•  Day, M. and Archer, C. (2017) ‘Introduction: From Codex to Computer’, Book 2.0 (7:1) 3-8
• Day, M. (2015) ‘Western Travel Writing c.1450-1750’ in Thompson, C. (ed.) Routledge Companion to Travel Writing London: Routledge, pp. 1-10
• Day, M. (2013) 'The Roots of Empire: Early Modern Travel Collections and International Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century', in Farr, M. and Guégan, X. (eds) The British Abroad: Experiencing Imperialism: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives of the British Abroad since the Eighteenth Century, 2 vols, II, pp. 1-20
• Day, M. (2013) 'Travelling in New Formes: Reissued and Reprinted Travel Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century' in Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 4:2 online publication
• Day, M. (2012) '"Honour to our Nation": Nationalism, The Principal Navigations and Travel Collections in the Long Eighteenth Century', in Jowitt, C. and Carey, D. (eds.) Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe London: Ashgate and The Hakluyt Society, pp. 77-86
• Day, M.  (2012) '"Generally very tedious, often trifling": Promoting Eighteenth Century Travel Collections', in Day, M. and Hinks, J. (eds) From Compositors to Collectors: Essays in the Book Trade. London: British Library and Oak Knoll Press, pp. 18-34
• Day, M. (2011) '"Intended To Offenders" – The Running Titles of Early Modern Books', in Smith, H. and Wilson, L. (eds) Renaissance Paratexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 32-48
• Day, M. (2008) '"Mysteries of Commerce": - Influence, Licensing and Censorship and the Literature of Long-Distance Travel', in Deng, S. and Sebek, B. (eds) Global Commerce: Discourses and Practices 1500-1700.  Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 221-44
• Day, M. (2007) 'Hakluyt, Harvey, Nashe: The Material Text and Early Modern Nationalism', Studies in Philology, 104:3 (2007), 281-305
• Day, M. (2003) ‘Imagining Empire: Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations (1598-1600) and the idea of a British Empire’, Journeys, 3:2 (2002) 1-28