Dympna Callaghan

About

Dympna Callaghan is University Professor and William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the Department of English at Syracuse University, USA.  She has published widely on the writers of the English Renaissance and is a former president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Her books include: Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy, Shakespeare Without Women, Hamlet: Language and Writing, and Who Was William Shakespeare? She has edited The Taming of the Shrew for W. W. Norton as well as a contextual edition of Romeo and Juliet for Bedford St. Martins. She  has held long-term fellowships at the Getty Research Center, the Newberry Library, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in  2019-20 she was Fletcher-Jones Distinguished Fellowship in British Literature at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.