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Dr. Deana Rankin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Deputy Director of the MA in Shakespeare program. She joined Royal Holloway in 2008, previously serving as Muriel Bradbrook Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and holding a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship at National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research focuses on early modern English and Irish literature, classical republicanism, and performance studies.
Education includes a BA (Hons) in French and German from St John’s College, Oxford, followed by a part-time MA in Anglo-Irish Literature (University of Ulster) and a D.Phil. at St John’s College, Oxford, funded by the British Academy. Her career bridges academia and theatre, with collaborative projects involving the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Globe, and Pegasus Theatre Oxford.
Her research interests span Shakespearean drama, Renaissance literature, and the representation of political violence. Current projects include a study on assassins in early modern theatre and collaborative performances like Storming Utopia, linking The Tempest to Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. She edits the Early Modern Irish Texts series and collaborates with artists like puppeteer Stephen Mottram on award-winning productions.
Her landmark work Between Spenser and Swift received the American Conference for Irish Studies’ top literary prize. She actively supervises PhD research on Shakespearean performance adaptations and classical drama translations, emphasizing contemporary relevance.
