Loehlin, James N.
Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor

Education: Ph.D. Stanford 1993
Office Location: CAL 205
Phone: (512) 471-4993
jnloehlin@mail.utexas.edu

James Loehlin is Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor of English and director of the Shakespeare at Winedale program. He is a native Austinite and a Plan II graduate of UT, where he was a student in the Winedale program under founding Director James B. Ayres. He earned an English M.A. at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, and a joint Ph.D. in Drama and Humanities at Stanford. He taught in the Drama Department at Dartmouth College for five years, serving as Director of the London Foreign Study Program, before returning to UT in 1999. Loehlin works with the evolving meaning of plays in performance, both from a scholarly and practical perspective. He has directed, acted in, or supervised productions of twenty-five of Shakespeare's plays, as well as all four of Chekhov's major plays.

Research Interests:

Shakespeare in Performance (stage and film), Renaissance drama, modern drama

Recent Publications:

Henry IV, Parts I and II.  The Shakespeare Handbooks. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 

Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard, Cambridge University Press, 2006

“Teaching Through Performance,” Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare in Performance, ed. Barbara Hodgdon and Bill Worthen, Blackwell, 2006

“Brecht and the Rediscovery of Henry VI,” in Shakespeare’s History Plays, ed. Ton Hoenselaars, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare in Production series, Cambridge University Press, 2002

Henry V, Shakespeare in Performance series, Manchester: Manchester University Press, December 1996

'''Top of the World, Ma': Richard III and Cinematic Convention,'' in Shakespeare: The Movie, ed. Lynda Boose and Richard Burt, London: Routledge, 1997

'''These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends': Baz Luhrmann's Millennial Shakespeare'' in Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle, ed. Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray, London: Macmillan, 2000

''On Your Imaginary Forces Work'' in Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance, ed. Milla Riggio, MLA, 1999

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Awards and Honors: 

Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2009

University Co-op Robert W.Hamilton Award, Runner Up, Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard, 2008

Chad Oliver Teaching Award, Plan II Honors Program, 2005-6

President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 2006

Harry Ransom Teaching Award, 2004