Dr. William West

Dr. William West is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He is a recent Chair of the Department of Classics and an expert in the uses made of antiquity in Renaissance theater. His most recent book, Common Understanding, Poetic Confusions: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England (University of Chicago Press, 2021), won the Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book on Drama and Theatre by New York University.

Dr. William West is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He is a recent Chair of the Department of Classics and an expert in the uses made of antiquity in Renaissance theater. His most recent book, Common Understanding, Poetic Confusions: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England (University of Chicago Press, 2021), won the Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book on Drama and Theatre by New York University.