
Michael Saenger
Associate Professor of English
Expertise
Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare through Performance, Shakespeare and Translation
Michael Saenger, Associate Professor of English, teaches and writes on Shakespeare from a wide variety of perspectives. He is the author of two books, The Commodification of Textual Engagements in the English Renaissance (Ashgate, 2006), and Shakespeare and the French Borders of English (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and editor of Interlinguicity, Internationality and Shakespeare (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2014), as well as numerous articles on Renaissance and other literature. He has been a Finalist for the Southwestern Teaching Award, and he teaches courses on such subjects as Medieval literature, Shakespeare in film and performing Shakespeare. He publishes blog entries for Reviewing Shakespeare (administered by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the University of Warwick) as well as for The Times of Israel, and he has spoken internationally on Shakespeare in translation. He is the Chair of the Section for Faculty in the Humanities at Academic Engagement Network.
Saenger received his Ph.D. from the Univerisity of Toronto.
Honors & Awards
- 2010 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
- 2008 Finalist for Southwestern University Teaching Award
- 2002-2009 Cullen Faculty Development Awards
- 2000 A.S.P. Woodhouse Prize (outstanding dissertation in English, University of Toronto)
- 1998-1999 University of Toronto Department of English Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
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