Wendy Beth Hyman
Wendy Beth Hyman is the Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of Book Studies at Oberlin College, where she teaches classes on Shakespeare and Renaissance poetry, especially as they intersect with the larger worlds of art, science, and intellectual history. She is the author of Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry (Oxford UP, 2019) and the forthcoming Macbeth: A Visual Companion (ACMRS, 2026), a collaboration with a former student. She is editor of The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature (Ashgate, 2019), co-editor of Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now (Edinburgh, 2019) and co-editor of a special issue of English Literary Renaissance on early modern fiction-making. She has published widely on Shakespeare, lyric poetry, the history of science and technology, and social justice. Current projects include an essay collection called Rethinking Invention in the Renaissance, and a monograph on technologies of wonder, visuality, and supernatural experience in Shakespeare’s late plays. She is a novice oil painter, and lives in Cleveland with her spouse, her three-legged pit bull Oliver, and a victrola.
