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
Social/Academic Links
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
(May 3, 2018)
Scholars debate complicated relationship between science, humanities
(Jan. 31, 2018)
‘Living document’ outlines mission, strategic goals, opportunities
(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.
(March 20, 2017)
Bell is president, CEO of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo
(Jan. 21, 2016)
Professor Dympna Callaghan commemorates 400th anniversary of Bard's death with two new books