Sheila T. CavanaghProfessorDirector, Emory Women Writers Resource Project

Sheila T. Cavanagh is Professor of English and Director of the World Shakespeare Project and The Emory Women Writers Resource Project. She is author of Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities, Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires: Female Sexuality in The Faerie Queene and Cherished Torment: The Emotional Geography of Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania. She has also written many articles on early modern literature, pedagogy, and culinary history, among other topics. She has held additional appointments, including the Masse-Martin/NEH Distinguished Teaching Chair, the Global Shakespeare Centre/Fulbright Distinguished Chair, a Slater Fellowship at Durham University, Emory College Distinguished Teaching Scholar and as Director of Emory’s Year of Shakespeare. Her 2023-25 exhibition at Dr. Johnson’s House in London, ’Gratifications of the Palate’: Cuisine in the Age of Samuel Johnson,” was recommended in The Times Literary Supplement. She received her PhD at Brown University and did graduate work at Trinity College, Dublin and Georgetown University. She recently completed an MA in Public History at Georgia State University, which was preceded by an MST in College Teaching at the University of New Hampshire.