Martin Wiggins is a Senior Professor and Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute, as well as a Tutor for Research. He earned a Junior Research Fellowship at Keble College from 1987 to 1990. He has also spoken at the University of Reading, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College in London, as well as The Roehampton Institute. His research interests include both commercial and literary plays, masques and entertainments, and drama in Latin, Greek, Cornish, and Welsh written in the British Isles between the English Reformation and the English Revolution. He was awarded the Calvin and Rose G.

Hoffman Award for outstanding contributions to Christopher Marlowe's work. He also contributes to the Globe's magazine, Around the Globe, on a regular basis on historical topics.