Dr Grant Ferguson joined the University of Brighton in 2014, following working as the National Theatre's first academic in residence, consulting on the National Theatre's pre-histories, and a post at King’s College London. In her early career, she taught at the University of Bristol and is also a PGCE-qualified and experienced teacher with keen interests in pedagogy and widening participation, having spent time as Head of Department (English, Media and MFL) in an FE College and as an experienced A Level examiner before taking up her previous post at King's.

After receiving the Society for Theatre Research Award in 2013 for her historical research on a first world war London performance space, her first monograph, Shakespeare, Cinema, Counterculture was published by Routledge in 2016, which was followed by co-authoring a collaborative monograph with an international group of scholars, 'Antipodal Shakespeare' (published by Bloomsbury in 2014), exploring the history of Shakespearean commemorations and national identities in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Grant Ferguson's second monograph, The Shakespeare Hut was published in 2019 by the Arden Shakespeare (Bloomsbury). With Dr Kate Aughterson, she co-authored a core, research-led textbook for the Arden Shakespeare series, Shakespeare and Gender, setting texts alongside historical sources, which was published in August 2020. She is currently an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellow (2022-3) and was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to historical research in 2022.

Dr Grant Ferguson's current doctoral supervision includes projects on Aphra Behn, the Lucrece narrative in Early Modern literature and culture, performance and queer histories. She is always happy to hear from and advise prospective doctoral researchers, particularly in early modern literature, cultural history and its afterlives, including gendered cultural memory; early modern women's histories, writings and afterlives; Shakespeare studies (particularly appropriation, cultural memory and commemoration); early modern literary histories, gender and heritage.