MIT World Speakers

Diana E. Henderson

Diana Henderson's most recent book is Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media (Cornell University Press, 2006). She has also written Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender and Performance, and is editor of A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. She is involved in several collaborations with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Henderson is a winner of the 2005 Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Before coming to MIT, she taught in the Humanities Program at Columbia, and was Assistant Professor of English at Middlebury College.

Henderson received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.