David Kastan

David Scott Kasta is the George M. Bodman Professor of English Literature at Yale University. He previously taught at Darmouth College and then at Columbia, where he chaired the Department of Emglish and Comparative Literature until this past July. He has also taught at University College London, and been a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Cairo, Copenhagen, and Budapest. He is among the most widely read Renaissance scholars in the world: he is the author of Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time (1982); Shakespeare After Theory (1999); Shakespeare and the Book (2001); co-editor of Staging the Renaissance: Essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (1991) and of The New History of Early English Drama (1997); and editor of Critical Essays on Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1995) and A Companion to Shakespeare (1999). He serves as a General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare (the first American to do so in the Arden's 100-year history), and his edition of 1 Henry IV for that series was published in 2002. He is also the general editor of tne new Barnes and Noble Shakespeare. His edition of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus was published by Norton in 2004, and his edition of Milton's Paradise Lost by Hackett in 2005. The five volume Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature was published under his editorship in 2006. In addition to the Barnes and Noble Shakespeare, he is presently working on two books: one called "The Invention of English Literature," a project for which he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2004, and a book on Shakespeare and Religion, a version of which will be delivered as a lecture series at Oxford later this fall. He was the winner of Columbia's Presidential Teaching Award in 2000 and Columbia's first Faculty Mentoring Award in 2004.