William Floyd Wolfgang

William Floyd Wolfgang, Ph.D., is the director of the service scholars program and a lecturer in the Department of English, History & Humanities at Stevenson University, specializing in pedagogy surrounding Shakespeare, Theater History, and first-year writing. As a community-based theatre practitioner, Dr. Wolfgang has produced nearly all of Shakespeare’s plays with the OrangeMite Shakespeare Company in York, Pennsylvania, and has also directed and adapted productions with Merced Shakespearefest and Shakespeare in Yosemite while lecturing at the University of California, Merced. Recently, he completed the first major study of community-based Shakespeare performance in the United States. While conducting this research, he served as a special researcher for Shakespeare’s creative and global legacies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. Dr. Wolfgang’s publications include a regional history book by Arcadia Publishing entitled Hidden History of Kinsley, and he has peer-reviewed work published in Shakespeare Bulletin with essays in Bloomsbury Arden’s Lockdown Shakespeare and Palgrave’s Inclusive Shakespeares and Criminal Shakespeares. His research interests include rural and community-based arts, Shakespeare’s role in the Little Theatre Movement, and early modern literature in bilingual performance.