
- dvitkus@ucsd.edu
- (858) 534-1086
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Arts & Humanities Bldg (RWAC)
Room 388
Mail Code: 0410
Professor
Rebeca Hickel Endowed Chair in Elizabethan Literature
Daniel Vitkus earned his Master’s Degree in English Language and Literature at Oxford University (Hertford College) and his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He holds the Rebeca Hickel Endowed Chair in Elizabethan Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630 (Palgrave Macmillan) and of numerous articles and book chapters on the literature and cultural history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Vitkus has edited Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England (Columbia University Press) and Piracy, Slavery and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England (Columbia University Press). His latest book, co-authored with Jyotsna Singh, is called A Contextual Guide to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in 2025). His interests include Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, travel writing, Islamic culture and its representation in the West, the origins of capitalism, the cultural history of empire, eco-criticism, historical materialism, cultural studies, and literary and critical theory.
Languages: English, French