Dr. Charles A. Conaway

Chuck Conaway is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana. His research focuses on the Afterlife of William Shakespeare—that is, the publication, republication, translation, performance, interpretation, and adaptation of his work from the time of his death to the present. Many scholars have noted that readers of Shakespeare's plays, from academics and editors to audiences and adapters, change the meanings of them in order to make Shakespeare speak to their own changing sensibilities. Most scholars also now agree that to a very great extent it is this centuries-long process of reinterpreting Shakespeare that accounts for his enduring literary and cultural authority.

He has published articles on adaptations of Shakespeare from the Restoration and Eighteenth Century through the present. He is currently at work on a number of articles dealing with the circulation of Shakespeare in late-twentieth and early-twentieth-century dystopian science fiction novels that theorize relationships between Shakespeare, the Humanities, and post-traumatic stress.