Douglas Lanier is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. He has taught at Duke, UCLA, Allegheny College, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, as well as the University of New Hampshire. Professor Lanier is widely recognized as a pioneer in the study of modern appropriations of Shakespeare in all media. His book, Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture (OUP, 2002), established the basic parameters of one of the most lively fields in Shakespeare studies today. He is currently at work on a study of the adaptation of Othello to the screen worldwide and a book on The Merchant of Venice for Arden's Language & Writing series. He has been the recipient of several fellowships and awards and for 2016-7 he is the Fulbright Global Shakespeare Centre Distinguished Chair at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Warwick.