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Professor Daniel Vitkus holds the Rebeca Hickel Endowed Chair in Elizabethan Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on Renaissance literature, cultural history, and the intersection of capitalism and early modern drama. He earned a Master’s from Oxford University (Hertford College) and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
His work examines topics such as Shakespeare, travel writing, Islamic-Western cultural interactions, and the socio-economic transformations of the 16th–17th centuries. Notable publications include *Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean* and edited volumes on early modern captivity narratives and ‘Turk Plays.’ He is co-authoring *A Contextual Guide to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra* (Edinburgh UP, 2025).
His scholarship critiques how early modern English drama addressed economic crises, usury, and cross-cultural trade through allegory and satire. Vitkus links these themes to broader debates about capitalism’s emergence and its impact on social inequality.
