Peter Holland

Teaches at The Newberry

Peter Holland, McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies and Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame, is one of the central figures in performance-oriented Shakespeare criticism. He served as Director of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon and Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham before going to Notre Dame in 2002. He is editor of Shakespeare Survey, co-General Editor, with Stanley Wells, of Oxford Shakespeare Topics (20 volumes to date) and, with Adrian Poole, of the 18-volume series Great Shakespeareans (Bloomsbury Academic, 2009-13). His most recent book is English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s, and he has also edited many Shakespeare plays, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Oxford Shakespeare series and Coriolanus for the Arden Shakespeare 3rd Series. In 2007, he completed publication of a five-volume series of essays, Rethinking British Theatre History. In 2007-08, he served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America. He was elected an honorary fellow of the Shakespeare Institute and of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. In 2012 he received the Sheedy Award at Notre Dame. In 2015 he was appointed Co-General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare, 4th series.