Laurie Johnson

Laurie Johnson is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Queensland. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Lost Playhouse: Eleven Days at Newington Butts (2018), The Tain of Hamlet (2013), and The Wolf Man’s Burden (2001), and co-editor (with John Sutton and Evelyn Tribble) of Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Early Modern Body-Mind (2014) and (with Darryl Chalk) of Rapt in Secret Studies: Emerging Shakespeares (2010). Currently the President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association and member of the editorial board of Shakespeare (Taylor and Francis), Laurie is going to be a Short-term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2019, researching the impact of sixteenth century climate shifts on the rise of the early modern playhouse industry.