New Swan Shakespeare Center Co-directors: Eli Simon, Chancellor’s Professor of Drama, and Julia Lupton, Professor of English.
The New Swan Shakespeare Center is the University of California Irvine campus research unit that supports the work of New Swan Shakespeare Festival, promotes innovative scholarship on Shakespeare and his worlds, and provides educational opportunities for the community, including teachers.
Projects include community seminars, school visits, reading groups, lectures, research and study retreats, and edited volumes and collections. The New Swan Shakespeare Center is co-directed Julia Lupton (English) and Eli Simon (Drama). Julia Lupton runs programming associated with the Center, which has its own website in the School of Humanities. Jesús López runs education programs and visits for schools in the Southern California Irvine. Neah Lekan is a guest scholar and associate working with the Center.
To learn about Center activities, please visit:
https://www.humanities.uci.edu/shakespeare
Many of our past programs can be viewed on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxj0RiW6AT_D_awNp3EtukA