Lena Cowen Orlin is a professor in the Department of English in the College. She joined the Georgetown faculty in 2007.

International activities include: 

• Executive director of the Shakespeare Association of America
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• Corresponding fellow of the English Association
• Board member of the International Shakespeare Conference at the Shakespeare Institute
  
• Co-editor of the "Oxford Shakespeare Topics" series
  
• Co-editor of the "Arden Shakespeare State of Play" series
  
• Serves on the editorial board of the journal Shakespeare Survey
  
• Author of two books and 43 essays; editor or co-editor of two anthologies, nine essay collections, and a new college text, The Bedford Shakespeare