David Scott Kastan is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He was an undergraduate at Princeton, graduating Summa Cum Laude and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received both his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His first teaching job was at Dartmouth College, but he left Dartmouth in 1987 to come to Columbia. He has also taught at University College London, and been a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Cairo, Copenhagen, and Budapest. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time (1982); Shakespeare After Theory (1999); Shakespeare and the Book (2001); co-editor of Staging the Renaissance: Essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (1991) and of The New History of Early English Drama (1997); and editor of Critical Essays on Shakespeare's Hamlet (1995) and A Companion to Shakespeare (1999). He serves as a General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare (the first American to do so in Arden's 100-year history), and his edition of 1 Henry IV for that series was published in 2002. An edition of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus was published by Norton in 2004, and an edition of Milton's Paradise Lost by Hackett in 2005. The five-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature was published under his editorship in 2006. In addition to the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series, he is presently working on a book called "The Invention of English Literature," a project for which he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2004. He was the winner of Columbia's Presidential Teaching Award in 2000, Columbia's first Faculty Mentoring Award in 2004, and he is presently chairing the Department of English and Comparative Literature.