Background

Professor Julie Sanders became Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2018 having joined Newcastle University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Humanities and Social Sciences) in 2015. In her DVC position, she has special responsibilities for the three faculties and for academic strategy, and is the Executive sponsor for the University's values-led work and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Social Justice, and Environmental Sustainability. She is currently Chair of the University’s Race Equality Charter Self-Assessment Team and serves on Council. She is also the institutional lead for the University’s participation in the Magna Charta Living Values project.

Julie is a Professor of English Literature and Drama with with an international research reputation in early modern literature and in adaptation studies. Her current research is on Shakespeare and Social Justice and on early modern material culture and she is co-editor of a commissioning series on ‘Early Modern Literary Geographies’ for Oxford University Press.

She obtained her first degree in English at Cambridge University and then went on to study for a Masters and a PhD at the University of Warwick, during which time she studied on exchange at Ca’Foscari in Venice and at UC Berkeley. Her first lectureship was at Keele University in 1995 and she then joined the University of Nottingham as Chair of English Literature and Drama in 2004. While at Nottingham she was Head of the School of English from 2010-13 and then seconded for two years to their Ningbo China joint venture campus as Vice Provost (Teaching and Learning). She has been involved in research review processes in Sweden and Ireland and was a member of Australian Research Council panels in 2018-19.

Julie currently serves on the Research England Advisory Group for the Institute of Advanced Studies and is a Fellow of the RSA.  

She is a proud trustee of Shakespeare’s Globe (since 2020) and of Northern Stage (since 2016).

 

Publications

• Sanders J. Appropriation. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Sanders J. Changing Places and Transitional Spaces: Plays, Masques, and Performances. In: Stephen B. Dobranski, ed. Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623-1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp.29-43.
• Park H, Sanders J, Chung M. Secondary Pleasures, Spatial Occupations and Postcolonial Departures: Park Chan-wook's Agassi/The Handmaiden and Sarah Waters's Fingersmith. Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies 2019, 11(2), 177-205.
• Sanders J. Under the Skin: A Neighbourhood Ethnography of Leather and Early Modern Drama. In: Loughnane R; Semple E, ed. Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp.109-126.
• Sanders J. Making the Land Known: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 and the Literature of Perambulation. In: Claire Jowitt and David McInnis, ed. Travel and Drama in Early Modern England : the Journeying Play. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp.72-91.
• Sanders J. Synecdoche, Adaptation, and the Staged Screenplay: Van Hove's Obsession(s). In: Bennett, S; Massai, S, ed. Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie. Methuen Drama, 2018, pp.170-178.
• Sanders J. Water Memory and the Art of Preserving: The Comedies and Early Modern Cultures of Remembrance. In: Heather Hirschfield, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. In Press.
• Sanders J. Neighbourhoods: Thick Description in the City. In: Robert T. Tally Jr, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.
• Li Jun, Sanders J. Shakespeare Going Out Here and Now: Travels in China on the 450th Anniversary. In: Susan Bennett, ed. The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2016, pp.109-128.
• Sanders J. Adaptation and Appropriation. London, UK: Routledge, 2015.
• Sanders J. 'In the Friars': The Spatial and Cultural Geography of an Indoor Playhouse. Cahiers Elisabethains 2015, 88(1), 19-33.
• Sanders J, Loxley J, Groundwater A. Ben Jonson's Walk to Scotland: An Annotated Edition of the 'Foot Voyage'. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• Sanders J, Jenkins J, ed. Editing, Text, Performance: New Directions in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2014.
• Grandage S, Sanders J. Shakespeare at a Distance. In: Carson, C; Kirwan, P, ed. Shakespeare and the Digital World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp.276.
• Sanders J. The Cambridge Introduction to Early Modern Drama, 1576-1642. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univesity Press, 2014.
• Sanders J. Creative exploitation and talking back: Renegade Theatre's The Winter's Tale or Itan Ognintin ('Winter's Tales). In: Bennett, S; Carson, C, ed. Shakespeare Beyond English: A Global Experiment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp.341.
• Sanders J, Bennett S. Here/There: National Theatre Wales’s Coriolan/us, 8-18 August 2012, Hangar 858, RAF St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan. Contemporary Theatre Review 2013, 23(4), 574-578.
• Sanders J. The Pennyles Pilgrimage of John Taylor: Poverty, Mobility and Performance in Seventeenth-Century Literary Circles. Rural History, special edition on Poverty and Mobility 2013, 24(Special Issue 01), 9-24.
• Sanders J. Stratfordian Perambulations; or, Walking with Shakespeare. Critical Survey Special Edition on Stratford 2012, 24:2, 39-53.
• Sanders J. The New Inn. In: Bevington, D; Butler, M; Donaldson, I ed. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson 2012. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Sanders J. The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama, 1620-1650. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.