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Lena Orlin
Lena Cowen Orlin is a professor in the Department of English in the College. She joined the Georgetown faculty in 2007.
International activities include:
- Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Corresponding fellow of the English Association
- Board member of the International Shakespeare Conference at the Shakespeare Institute
- General editor of the "Oxford Shakespeare Topics" series and the "Arden Shakespeare State of Play" series
- Advisory board member of the Shakespeare in European Culture publication series
- Serves on the editorial board of the journals Shakespeare Survey and Shakespeare Studies
- Recent residential fellow at that Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy
- Chair of the Programme Committee for a World Shakespeare Congress to be held in Singapore in 2021
- Author of two books and 45 essays; editor or co-editor of two anthologies, nine essay collections, and a college text, The Bedford Shakespeare