Plenary Speaker:
Prof. Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University)
Plenary Speech Title:
"What’s Hecuba to Him?’ Acting, Impersonation, and Identity"
Dympna Callaghan is William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the Department of English at Syracuse University. She has published widely on the playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance and was President of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2012-13. Callaghan has held fellowships at the Folger, Huntington and Newberry Libraries, at the Getty Research Centre in Los Angeles, and at the Bogliasco Center for Arts and Humanities in Liguria, Italy. She is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and she was appointed Lloyd David distinguished fellow at the University of Queensland Australia for 2015. Her most recent books are Who Was William Shakespeare? (2013), Hamlet: Language and Writing (2015), and A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, Second Edition (2016). She is the editor of the book series Arden Language and Writing, and co-editor, with Michael Dobson of the Palgrave Shakespeare monograph series. She also recently co-edited, with Suzanne Gossett, the volume Shakespeare in Our Time (2016), prepared on behalf of the Shakespeare Association of America to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Among other current projects, she is writing about the relationship between poetic fluency and freedom of speech.
Plenary Speaker:
Prof. Gabriel Egan (De Montfort University)
Plenary Speech Title:
"How Far Is Shakespeare's Language from that of His Contemporaries?"
Gabriel Egan is Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University and one of the four General Editors (with Gary Taylor, John Jowett, and Terri Bourus) of the New Oxford Shakespeare, of which the Modern Critical Edition appeared in October 2016 and the Critical Reference Edition and Authorship Companion in early 2017. The remaining two volumes are the Complete Alternative Versions (General Editors Taylor, Bourus, and Egan) that will appear in 2024. I co-edit the academic journal Theatre Notebook for the Society for Theatre Research.
Currently he is editing Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the New Variorum Shakespeare series (New York: Modern Language Association, 2025) and Sir Thomas More for the New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Alternative Versions edition (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Egan was Co-Investigator on the £252,557 AHRC-funded research project Transforming Middlemarch that ran from January 2022 to March 2023 to produce an open-access online scholarly digital genetic edition of Andrew Davies's 1994 BBC Television adaptation of George Eliot's novel. He was Principal Investigator on the £312,012 AHRC-funded research project "Shakespeare's Early Editions (SEE)" that ran from October 2016 to July 2018 to explore the differences between the quarto and Folio versions of his plays to see if they can be quantified and explained in terms of textual corruption and authorial and non-authorial revision.
His latest sole-authored book is a monograph called Shakespeare and Ecocritical Theory for the Arden Shakespeare series (London: Bloomsbury, 2015). His previous books include is The Struggle for Shakespeare's Text: Twentieth Century Editorial Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2010), the Edinburgh Critical Guide to Shakespeare (2007), Green Shakespeare (2006), Shakespeare and Marx (2004; reprinted in Turkish as Shakespeare ve Marx 2006), and an edition of Richard Brome and Thomas Heywood's The Witches of Lancashire (2002).
Plenary Speaker:
Prof. Jongsook Lee (Seoul National University)
Plenary Speech Title:
"Shakespeare in Meiji Japanese Discourses on Modernity"
Jongsook Lee, Professor Emerita of English Renaissance Literature and Classical Civilization at Seoul National University (SNU). She published a book on Ben Jonson’s poetry, and co-authored several books on early modern English history and culture. She also published a number of articles on transposing Shakespeare and transposed Shakespeares including studies on textual problems of Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s receptions and appropriations of ancient Greek and Roman literature, and receptions of Shakespeares in Colonial Korea.
Plenary Speaker:
Prof. David McInnis (University of Melbourne)
Plenary Speech Title:
"In States Unborn and Accents yet Unknown: Shakespeare and Australian Indigenous Performance"
David McInnis is Associate Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Melbourne. He is author of Shakespeare and Lost Plays (Cambridge UP, 2021), Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2013), and editor of Dekker’s Old Fortunatus for the Revels Plays series (Manchester UP, 2020). Since 2009, he has co-edited the Lost Plays Database, which he founded with Roslyn L. Knutson. He has also edited a number of books, including Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England (Palgrave, 2014; co-edited with Matthew Steggle) and a sequel volume, Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time (Palgrave 2020; co-edited with Knutson and Steggle); Travel and Drama in Early Modern England: The Journeying Play (Cambridge UP, 2018; co-edited with Claire Jowitt); Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, 2020); and Shakespeare and Virtual Reality (Cambridge 2021, with Stephen Wittek). In 2016 he was jointly awarded the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ Max Crawford Medal (granted to Australian early-career researchers for outstanding scholarly achievement in the humanities). In 2022 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) for his research in theatre history. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, the BBC, and elsewhere. In 2023 he was appointed to the Board of Bell Shakespeare, Australia's national theatre company specialising in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Plenary Speaker:
Dr. Margaret Harvey (University of Melbourne)
Plenary Speech Title:
"In States Unborn and Accents yet Unknown: Shakespeare and Australian Indigenous Performance"
Margaret Harvey is Mckenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Melbourne.