Julia Lupton

Julia Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, with a joint appointment in Education. She is Associate Dean of Research for the School of Humanities and Faculty Director of Illuminations, the Chancellor’s arts and culture initiative. In 2014, she was elected Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her most recent scholarly books are Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (2011) and Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology (2005). She is also author of Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology and Renaissance Literature (1996) and co-author with Kenneth Reinhard of After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (1992). She is the co-editor with Graham Hammill of Political Theology and Early Modernity (2011) and has collaborated with Jen Rust and David Pan on two volumes on Schmitt and Shakespeare.