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Dympna Callaghan

Dympna Callaghan

Dympna Callaghan

William Safire Professor of Modern Letters and University Professor

CONTACT

English
435 Hall of Languages
Email: dccallag@syr.edu
Office: 315.443.2173

A&S AFFILIATIONS

Women's and Gender Studies

PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS

Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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Biographic Overview

Dympna Callaghan is William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the Department of English at Syracuse University. She has published widely on the playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance and was President of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2012-13. Callaghan has held fellowships at the Folger, Huntington and Newberry Libraries, at the Getty Research Centre in Los Angeles, and at the Bogliasco Center for Arts and Humanities in Liguria, Italy. She is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and she was appointed Lloyd David distinguished fellow at the University of Queensland Australia for 2015. Her most recent books are Who Was William Shakespeare? (2013), Hamlet: Language and Writing (2015), and A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, Second Edition (2016). She is the editor of the book series Arden Language and Writing, and co-editor, with Michael Dobson of the Palgrave Shakespeare monograph series.
She also recently co-edited, with Suzanne Gossett, the volume Shakespeare in Our Time (2016), prepared on behalf of the Shakespeare Association of America to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Among other current projects, she is writing about the relationship between poetic fluency and freedom of speech.

Books
Areas of Supervision

Professor Callaghan has mentored students whose work includes 18th Century depictions of Ireland and the Irish; women, theatre, and nascent capitalism in the interregnum; race and colonialism in early modern drama; illiteracy and the early modern stage; and women and magic.

News
Mapping the Heavens: Faculty Research in the Humanities (Part II)

(May 3, 2018)

Scholars debate complicated relationship between science, humanities

College Unveils Academic Strategic Plan

(Jan. 31, 2018)

‘Living document’ outlines mission, strategic goals, opportunities

Dympna Callaghan Named University Professor

(Nov. 13, 2017)

“Dympna is highly deserving of this distinction. Her research in the areas of early modern literature is widely acclaimed by scholars around the world" says Provost Wheatly.

Alumnus Kevin Bell ’74 Joins Strategic Planning Process as Consultant

(March 20, 2017)

Bell is president, CEO of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo

Shakespeare in Our Time

(Jan. 21, 2016)

Professor Dympna Callaghan commemorates 400th anniversary of Bard's death with two new books