About

James Newlin received his PhD in English from the University of Florida. His teaching and research interests include Shakespeare, early modern British literature, film, and psychoanalysis. He is the author of Uncanny Fidelity: Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television (University of Alabama Press, 2024) and the co-editor, with James W. Stone, of New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains (Routledge, 2024). His scholarship has also appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin, SubStance, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and in other journals and edited collections. He is currently developing a book project on allusions to King Lear in Romanticism and in the critiques of Romanticism by Søren Kierkegaard and Jacques Lacan.