Johan Callens

Johan Callens holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he is a professor of English. He has participated in an Erasmus exchange with the University of Kent at Canterbury and taught a doctoral seminar at the University of Zaragoza. He is a CRB Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, a Salzburg Seminar Fellow, and as a Fulbright Fellow took part in a Traveling Summer Institute in American Studies for University Teachers devoted to 20th century American Literature, taking place at UCLA, Vanderbilt University, and the headquarters of USIA in Washington DC. He was also a visiting scholar at the Mugar Memorial Library of Boston University. He has served terms on the boards of the Belgian Luxembourg American Studies Association (as President) and the Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher Education (as President & Vice-President) as well as sat on the boards of the American Theatre and Drama Society, the European Society for the Study of English and the European Association for American Studies. In 2012-2013 he was a Fulbright Hays Research Scholar at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. He has published widely on American drama and performance and is a member of the editorial and/or advisory boards of the Dramaturgies series published by the Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes-Peter Lang, the European Journal of American Culture , the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English , and the theatre studies journal Documenta . On Shepard he edited Between the Margin and the Centre , a double issue of Contemporary Theatre Review (1998) as well as published From Middleton and Rowley's "Changeling" to Sam Shepard's "Bodyguard": A Contemporary Appropriation of a Renaissance Drama (1997) and Dis/Figuring Sam Shepard (2007).