Introduction: Shakespeare Shelter

Author Biographies

• Nicoleta Cinpoeş, University of Worcester, UK

  Nicoleta Cinpoeş is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Worcester, UK, an active member of ESRA, the International Shakespeare Association, and the British Shakespeare Association. In 2010, she founded the Shakespeare in Performance Seminar at the Craiova International Shakespeare Festival, which she now chairs. She is international adviser for the York International Shakespeare Festival, helped launch the Ivano-Frankivsk International Shakespeare Festival, Ukraine (2024), and co-organises the Chișinău International Shakespeare Festival, Moldova. Her latest publication is Shakespeare on European Festival Stages (Bloomsbury, 2022), co-edited with Florence March and Paul Prescott.

• Imke Lichterfeld, University of Bonn, Germany

  Imke Lichterfeld, PhD, is the Studies Coordinator at the Department of English, American and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn. Her research interests and teaching include early modern drama, Shakespeare, and his contemporaries, as well as Modernism, and New Nature Writing. She published a monograph called When the Bad Bleeds on English revenge tragedy, co-edited Changing Shakespeare? Female Actors – (Fe)male Characters?, and has contributed to volumes such as The Language of Democratization. Roles, Social Positions, and Discourse (2026) or The Moment of Death in Early Modern Europe (2024), and journals like Cahiers Élisabéthains, Shakespeare en Devenir, and Teaching Shakespeare; she is a member of, among others, ESRA, BSA, SFS, and the Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft.