Marjorie Rubright

Marjorie Rubright is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she directs the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. She is founder of the Renaissance of the Earth project, an interdisciplinary research collaboration that engages the early modern past with questions about our environmental future with the goal of discovering diverse avenues for creating sustainable and equitable life. She is the author of Doppelgänger Dilemmas: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2014), and co-author of “So Long Lives This”: A Celebration of Shakespeare's Life and Works, 1616-2016 (2016), winner of the 2017 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Award. Her public humanities work includes the curation, most recently, of the 2023-2024 campuswide special exhibit: “Shakespeare Unbound.”