Peter Holland

Professor; McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies; Associate Dean for the Arts

Peter Holland was educated at Cambridge and, when he left in 1997, was Judith E. Wilson Reader in Drama and Theatre in the Faculty of English. He then served as Director of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon and Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham before coming to Notre Dame in 2002 as the first holder of the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies. For 19 years, he served as editor of Shakespeare Survey, the United Kingdom’s leading academic Shakespeare journal; co-General Editor, with Stanley Wells and Lena Orlin, of Oxford Shakespeare Topics (Oxford University Press, over 30 volumes to date); with Adrian Poole, of the 18-volume series Great Shakespeareans (Bloomsbury Academic, 2009-13); with Farah Karim-Cooper and Stephen Purcell of a monograph series, Shakespeare in the Theatre (Bloomsbury Academic, 15 volumes to date); and, with Zachary Leader and Tiffany Stern, of the Arden Shakespeare 4th series. In 2007, he completed publication of a five-volume series of collections rethinking British theatre history. He is the author of more than 140 articles on a wide range of topics in Shakespeare studies as well as on David Garrick, English pantomime, Chekhov, farce, Peter Brook, and many other aspects of drama and performance. In 2007-08, he served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America and is currently Chair of the International Shakespeare Association. Most recently, he received the Sheedy Award at Notre Dame in 2012.