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Diana Henderson

Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About me

Diana Henderson‘s areas of research and interest include Shakespeare, gender studies, early modern poetry and drama, modernism, media studies, and world drama. Her publications include the books Alternative Shakespeares 3, Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media, A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen, Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender and Performance, and articles in (among others) Shakespeare Survey, Renaissance and Reformation, Shakespeare and Genre, Thomas Middleton in Context, Knowing Shakespeare, Shakespeare and War, Victorian Shakespeare, Shakespeare: The Movie 2, Shakespeare After Mass Media, A New History of Early English Drama, Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance, and numerous volumes in the Cambridge and Blackwell’s Companions series. She has worked as a dramaturg, was a principal participant in MIT’s collaborations with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and is co-editor of Shakespeare Studies. Winner of the 2005 Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award For Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, MacVicar Faculty Fellow.