Nancy Selleck

Nancy Selleck is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Theatre Arts Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  She is the author of a book on the language of selfhood in the Renaissance entitled The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne, and Early Modern Culture (published by Palgrave in 2008).  She has directed and co-directed productions of early modern plays at UMass Lowell and at Harvard, including As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Rover.  She has also directed modern and contemporary plays including Brecht’s Galileo and Stoppard’s Arcadia and has published on Stoppard as well.  She’s currently working on a book on early modern performance practices entitled Actor and Audience: Objects of Play on the Shakespearean Stage.