Sujata Iyengar, professor in the Department of English, has established herself as an internationally influential voice across a range of fields, including book history, early modern women studies, disability studies, critical race and gender studies, digital scholarship, medical humanities, pedagogy and editing. But she is perhaps best known as the preeminent authority on Shakespearean appropriation, exploring how audiences engage with, undo or transform Shakespeare. Iyengar has published three single-authored books, “Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory” (2022), “Shakespeare’s Medical Language” (2011), and “Shades of Difference” (2005), which have transformed the study of Shakespeare and the British Renaissance. She is the founding co-editor of the award-winning digital peer-reviewed journal, “Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation,” a premiere venue not only for scholarship but also an important forum for educators and students of Shakespeare  She has co-authored seven books, producing collections of essays that have enabled and supported communities of practice.