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Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Liyam Laraba
Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
2
Elizabeth Moroney
Royal Shakespeare Company (United Kingdom)
3
Stephanie Brown
Washington College
4
Sofía Sánchez-Mompeán
Universidad de Murcia
5
Benjamin M. Gorman
Bournemouth University
6
Naomi A. Weiss
Harvard University Press
7
Gregory Brophy
Bishop's University
8
Heidi Liedke
Goethe University Frankfurt
9
Marie Nedregotten Sørbø
Volda University College
10
Laura Schmitz-Justen
University of Münster

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power
Studies in American Humor|2024
4 cit.
2
The Politics of Queer Be-longing and Acts of Hope in Peter McMaster’s Solo Performance <i>A Sea of Troubles</i> and Split Britches’ “Zoomie” <i>Last Gasp (WFH)</i>
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English|2024
1 cit.
3
Therapy-as-Theatre: Porosity and Circulations of Feeling in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s <i>An Octoroon</i> (2014) and Duncan Macmillan’s <i>Every Brilliant Thing</i> (2013)
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik|2024
0 cit.
4
“Then you tell me you’ve fallen in love with a tree”: Queer ecologies in Ali Smith’s short stories
Journal of Lesbian Studies|2024
0 cit.
5
Sigrid Undset: <i>Olav Audunssøn</i>, translated by Tiina Nunnally
Translation and Literature|2024
0 cit.
6
From street talk to screen: the usage and reception of youth language in Spanish dubbing
Perspectives|2025
0 cit.
7
Ecologies of Care in a Digital Age: What Remains After Viral Theatre?
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English|2025
0 cit.
8
Reading characters: Metafictional and meta-authorial reparation through reading in Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You? (2021)
Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Agenda Advancing Anglophone Studies|2025
0 cit.
9
Introduction. Riding the streaming wave: Broadening global access through audiovisual translation and media accessibility
The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research|2025
0 cit.
10
DDDR-14. TEAD inhibitor VT3989, in combination with Brigatinib prevents <i>NF2</i> -deficient meningioma and schwannoma growth
Neuro-Oncology|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Jonah Siegel
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
2
Rory Kelly
University of California, Los Angeles
3
Nagihan Kaya
Kütahya Dumlupınar Üniversitesi
4
Ulka Anjaria
Brandeis University
5
Ali Khazaee Farid
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
6
Christian Smith
University of South Carolina
7
Peter tho Pesch
Institut für Rundfunktechnik
8
Evelyn O’Malley
University of Exeter
9
Michael Sanilevich
University of Haifa
10
Saul Kutnicki
Indiana University Bloomington

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Translation and Influence: Dorothea Tieck's Translations of Shakespeare
Borrowers and Lenders The Journal of Shakespeare Appropriations|2023
2 cit.
2
Indigent Defense Participation by Private Contractors and the Role of Compensation as an Incentive
Justice System Journal|2022
1 cit.
3
‘Peace and quiet and open air’: Performing weathering in New York screen musicals of the COVID-19 pandemic
Studies in Musical Theatre|2024
1 cit.
4
The Point of Vanishing: Pater’s Loss of Perspective
19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century|2022
0 cit.
5
Aesthetic Education and the Ubiquitous Bourgeois
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America|2023
0 cit.
6
Turbulent Ecodramaturgy: The Winds of <i>Pericles</i>
Green Letters|2023
0 cit.
7
‘Me and the Sky’: smashing the glass ceiling in <i>Come from Away</i> , neoliberal feminism, and climate change
Studies in Theatre and Performance|2024
0 cit.
8
Encountering Material Rhetorics in the Ruins of Saturn
Western Journal of Communication|2024
0 cit.
9
Bad Subjects of Good Freedoms
The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry|2024
0 cit.
10
Closing Time at the People Shop: A Saturn Dealership in Ruins
Screenworks|2024
0 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Peter Brooks
The University of Melbourne
2
Noël Carroll
University of St Andrews
3
Jonathan Cohen
University of Haifa
4
Miriam Hansen
University of Chicago
5
Patti M. Valkenburg
University of Amsterdam
6
Wendy Griswold
University of Memphis
7
Robert C. Holub
The Ohio State University
8
Allan L. Reiss
Stanford University
9
Simon Shepherd
Dartmouth College
10
Eric Cheyfitz
Cornell University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Framing European politics: A Content Analysis of Press and Television News
Journal of Communication|2000
2.4k cit.
2
Defining Identification: A Theoretical Look at the Identification of Audiences With Media Characters
Mass Communication & Society|2001
1.9k cit.
3
Friend Networking Sites and Their Relationship to Adolescents' Well-Being and Social Self-Esteem
CyberPsychology & Behavior|2006
1.5k cit.
4
The Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model
Journal of Communication|2013
1.3k cit.
5
Error-related brain activation during a Go/NoGo response inhibition task
Human Brain Mapping|2001
1.1k cit.
6
A quantitative comparison of NIRS and fMRI across multiple cognitive tasks
NeuroImage|2010
958 cit.
7
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess.
American Literature|1985
912 cit.
8
The Social Media Disorder Scale
Computers in Human Behavior|2016
895 cit.
9
Social Consequences of the Internet for Adolescents
Current Directions in Psychological Science|2009
894 cit.
10
Preadolescents' and adolescents' online communication and their closeness to friends.
Developmental Psychology|2007
866 cit.

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