Tiffany Stern (b. 1968) is a historian and Shakespeare scholar. She is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at The

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Biography

Stern has a

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ...

in English from

Merton College, Oxford Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 126 ...

. She gained her MPhil in 1993 and PhD in 1997, both from

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mo ...

. She was a Junior Research Fellow at

(1997-2000); a Reader at

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(2001-5), and then Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor at

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, and Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the

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(2005–16). After a year as Shakespeare Chair at

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, she became Professorial Fellow in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham in 2017. She is general editor of the

New Mermaids New Mermaids is a series of critical editions of important English plays. They were published from the early 1960s by Ernest Benn Limited Arden Shakespeare The Arden Shakespeare is a long-running series of scholarly editions of the works of William Shakespeare. It presents fully edited modern-spelling editions of the plays and poems, with lengthy introductions and full commentaries. There have been t ...

: 4 with Peter Holland and Zachary Lesser; and Norton Anthology of Sixteenth Century Literature, with

Stephen Greenblatt Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American literary historian and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general editor of ''The Nort ...

. Stern was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 2019.

Select publications

*Stern, T. (ed) 2019. ''Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England''. *Karim-Cooper, F. and Stern, T. (eds) 2013. ''Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance''. *Stern, T. 2012. ''Documents of Performance in Early Modern England''. CUP. *Stern, T. and Palfrey, S. 2007. 'Shakespeare in Parts'. OUP. *Stern, T. 2004. Making Shakespeare. Routledge. *Stern, T. 2000. 'Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan'. OUP.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stern, Tiffany Living people 1968 births Fellows of the British Academy Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Birmingham Shakespearean scholars British women historians British women academics