Diana Henderson majored in English and Philosophy while spending most of her outside time doing theater, dance, and music at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. She received her doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and taught at Middlebury College before joining MIT’s Literature faculty in 1995. She is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. Her teaching interests include early modern poetry and culture, gender studies, world drama, and Shakespeare; she received the 2005 Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Diana is the author of Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media (2006; paperback 2012) and Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender and Performance (1995), and the editor of Alternative Shakespeares 3 (2008) and A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (2006), as well as many articles on topics ranging from female sonneteers to James Joyce to the Hindi film Omkara. She is Associate Editor of the journal Shakespeare Studies and was the 2013-14 President of the Shakespeare Association of America. She has been a dramaturg, collaborated with the Royal Shakespeare Company and other professional theater troupes, and unwinds at the piano.
