Julia Lupton

Julia Reinhard Lupton is an American scholar of William Shakespeare and renaissance literature. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her scholarship.

Early life and education Lupton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland with her twin sister, Ellen Lupton.

Lupton earned a Bachelor of Arts in humanities and German from Johns Hopkins University in 1984 and a Ph.D. in renaissance studies from Yale University in 1991. Lupton credits graduate school with solidifying her commitment to writing about Shakespeare.

Career After graduating, Lupton became a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine in 1991. Lupton teaches classes on Shakespeare and renaissance literature. She is the co-director of the UCI New Swan Shakespeare Center, which she co-founded in 2015. And she is the director of UCI Illuminations, an initiative to fund arts and culture events for students and community members.

Lupton has served as trustee of the Shakespeare Society of America, associate dean for the University of California, Irvine's School of Humanities, director of UCI's program in Jewish studies,