Global Shakespeare are very pleased to announce Sheila T Cavanagh will be serving as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Queen Mary University of London and Warwick University for the academic year 2015-2016.

Professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Sheila is Founding Director of the World Shakespeare Project , Director of the Emory Women Writer’s Resource Project and Director of Emory’s Year of Shakespeare, working in conjunction with The Folger Shakespeare Library and American Library Association traveling exhibit “The First Folio: The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare.”

The World Shakespeare Project uses video conferencing to unite Shakespearean students, faculty, and arts practitioners around the globe in diverse discussions, performance exercises, and joint projects, with an emphasis on bringing local cultural traditions into international Shakespearean dialogues. Current partners include Tribal Colleges in India and North America; universities in South America, Morocco, Uganda, Ethiopia, Europe, Asia and Australia; and Shakespeare in Prison programs in North America and Europe.

Author of books on Edmund Spenser and Lady Mary Wroth, as well as numerous articles on pedagogy and Renaissance literature, during her time in the UK Sheila will be focused on a book tentatively entitled The Curiosity of Nations: Shakespeare in the International Electronic Age.

The Global Shakespeare team are looking forward to welcoming Sheila to the the team later this year.