Emma Smith | |
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| Born | Emma Josephine Smith 15 May 1970 |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Title | Professor of Shakespeare Studies |
| Board member of | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Abbey Grange School |
| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
| Thesis | Sifting strangers: some aspects of the representation of the European foreigner in the English drama, 1580-1617 (1997) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English literature |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | All Souls College, Oxford New Hall, Cambridge Hertford College, Oxford |
| Notable works | Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers |
Emma Josephine Smith (born 15 May 1970)[1] is an English literary scholar and academic whose research focuses on early modern drama, particularly William Shakespeare, and the history of the book. She has been a Tutorial Fellow in English at Hertford College, Oxford since 1997 and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford since 2015.
She has published and lectured widely on Shakespeare and on other early modern dramatists, and worked with numerous theatre companies. Her lectures are available as podcasts Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre[2] and Approaching Shakespeare.[3]