LIT is funded through an Irish Research Council New Foundations Award (2022) and is led by Dr Stephen O’Neill, Associate Professor in Shakespeare Studies at Maynooth University, with research interests in contemporary intersectional Shakespeares and arboreal humanities. The author of Shakespeare and YouTube (Arden Shakespeare / Bloomsbury, 2014), Staging Ireland: Representations in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (Four Courts, 2007), and editor of Broadcast Your Shakespeare (Arden Shakespeare / Bloomsbury, 2018), he has published widely on adapted Shakespeare. Recent work includes articles on HBO’s Westworld in Cahiers Elisabethains and Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel Hamnet in Shakespeare. With Diana Henderson, he co-edited the Arden Research Handbook to Shakespeare and Adaptation (Arden Shakespeare / Bloomsbury, 2022) and, with Ton Hoenselaars, Shakespeare and Refugees (Routledge, 2021).
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