Thematic Volume Introduction: Shakespeare and Ideology on Page and Stage

Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney is Fulbright alumna (Northwestern University), Professor of International Culture Studies and Shakespeare Studies, University of Lodz. She is member of “Apella” an international Greek society of academic experts, the International Association of University Professors of English, Shakespeare American Association, European Society of Shakespeare Research, and International Society for the Study of European Ideas. Her research interests include: English Literature (especially early modern), theater, postcolonial literatures in English, literary theory, with particular emphasis on the theory of culture. She has published numerous articles and monographs published locally and internationally in the areas listed above. She was the Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar at Columbia University, New York, and the Kosciuszko Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and the British Council scholar at the University of Birmingham and Cambridge University. She has been invited to give lectures—among other—at German, Swedish, Belgian, Greek, USA, Indian and Japanese Universities. She is editor-in-chief of International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal and co-editor-in-chief of Multicultural Shakespeare.