Presentation:
Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies and Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame. He was Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon from 1997 to 2002 and is one of the Institute鈥檚 Honorary Fellows. He has been a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He was elected President of the Shakespeare Association of America for 2007-8. In 2017 he was elected Chair of the International Shakespeare Association, the only global organization for Shakespeare scholars. He has edited many of Shakespeare鈥檚 plays (for Penguin, Oxford University Press and the Arden Shakespeare) and written widely on the plays in performance, including聽English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s. He is the Editor of聽Shakespeare Survey, the UK鈥檚 leading Shakespeare journal, and is General Editor for a number of book series, including an 18-volume series on聽Great Shakespeareans聽(with Adrian Poole, for Arden Shakespeare),聽Oxford Shakespeare Topics聽(with Stanley Wells and Lena Orlin, for Oxford University Press),聽Shakespeare in the Theatre聽(with Farah Karim-Cooper and Bridget Escolme, for Arden Shakespeare). His edition of聽Coriolanusfor the Arden Shakespeare 3rd series appeared in 2013. He is one of the General Editors for the new 4th series of the Arden Shakespeare, which will begin publication in 2023. He is currently writing a monograph on聽Shakespeare and Forgetting."