Gina Buccola, PhD

Dr. Gina Buccola - Biography

Regina Buccola is Professor of English and Dean of College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She has published several books on early modern British drama and culture, most recently in the Cambridge Elements series, and as editor of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Critical Guide and co-editor, with Peter Kanelos, of Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word. Recent journal publications include Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England and Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation. She serves as the scholar in residence at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and is one of the Midwest American reviewers for the online journal Reviewing Shakespeare. Buccola’s creative work can be seen with the Chicago political sketch comedy show DB Comedy; she is also a published poet, the author of the chapbook, Conjuring. Her poetry has also appeared in The Journal of Kentucky Studies and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.