keynote speakers
Carol Chillington Rutter
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(University of Warwick)
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Carol Chillington Rutter is Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. From 2006-2011 she was Director of the CAPITAL Centre (Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning), a HEFCE-funded Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning that, in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, developed (cross-university and cross-faculty) open-space learning for higher education. In 2007 she was awarded a WATE (Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence) and, in 2011, appointed a National Teaching Fellow. She presided over the transformation of CAPITAL into a university core-funded Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) in 2011. Carol Chillington Rutter’s major research interests lie in Shakespeare performance studies. Some main publications include: The Winter’s Tale: Shakespeare in Performance, with Judith Dunbar (Manchester University Press, 2011); Open Space Learning: A Study in Transdisciplinary Pedagogy, with Nicholas Monk, Jonothan Neelands and Jonathan Heron (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011); The Merchant of Venice In and Beyond the Ghetto, co-edited with Shaul Bassi (Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, 2019); and Antony and Cleopatra, Manchester University Press Shakespeare in Performance Series (Manchester University Press, 2020), among many others. She is currently preparing a biography of Henry Wotton, James I’s English ambassador to the Venetian Republic from 1604, with the provisional title Lying Abroad: Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy.
Glenn Patterson
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(Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast)
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Glenn Patterson is the author of eleven novels, five works of non-fiction, and the recently published novellas Two Summers. With Colin Carberry he wrote Good Vibrations (BBC Films), which the pair later adapted for stage. His broadcast work includes the Northern Bank Job, for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, which won best true crime podcast in the first Irish Podcast Awards. He lives in Belfast where he is Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University.
Linda Troost
(Washington & Jefferson College)
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Linda Troost is Professor of English at Washington & Jefferson College. She was the founding editor of the scholarly series Eighteenth-Century Women (AMS Press, six volumes) and, for two decades, the editor of Topic: The Washington & Jefferson College Review. She coedited Jane Austen in Hollywood, the book that established the field of Austen adaptation studies. She is active in the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Jane Austen Society of North America, and the International Robin Hood Society. She has served as secretary/treasurer of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and president of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Currently, she serves on the editorial board of Adaptation (Oxford UP) and the advisory boards of Eighteenth-Century Common, a public humanities website, and Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture, a book series from Routledge.
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Sayre Greenfield
(Univ. Pittsburgh-Greensburg)
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Sayre Greenfield, PhD, has taught at the University of Pitt-Greensburg since 1994. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Chair of the Humanities Division. His regular courses include Shakespeare, Masterpieces of Renaissance Literature, History of the English Language, Satire, and Jane Austen. Some of these courses also serve the Digital Studies Certificate Program, which he helped found. His publications range from The Ends of Allegory (University of Delaware Press, 1998) to two co-edited collections of essays, Jane Austen in Hollywood (University Press of Kentucky, 1998, second edition, 2001) and Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Currently, he is writing a history of the famous lines from Hamlet.
