Professional Bio: Julia Reinhard Lupton
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Updated May 15, 2009
Profile at UCI.edu (2007)
Profile at UCI.edu (2009)
Interview with Julia at Ambidextrous (pdf)
Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, with a joint appointment in Education. In 2007, she was named a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, in recognition of her contributions to Shakespeare studies. Her most recent scholarly book, Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005. She is also author of Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology and Renaissance Literature (Stanford, 1996) and co-author with Kenneth Reinhard of After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (Cornell, 1992). She has just finished the manuscript of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life.
Her newest project is entitled “Shakespeare by Design: Objects, Affordances, and Environments.” The book aims to use the visual, cognitive, and phenomenological resources of design theory to disclose the many points of creative contact between formal and vernacular acts of design on Shakespeare’s stage. The emphasis will fall on the life of objects (developed via affordance, user, and interobjectivity studies), the design of space (supported by excurses into architecture and urbanism), the management of time (supplemented by phenomenology and political theology), and housekeeping and hospitality (filled out via vernacular design discourses from the Renaissance to the present). The book will supplement discourses developed within the disciplines of design with more broadly theoretical writings on biopower in order to probe the design/life interface in both its Renaissance and its contemporary formations.
Other projects include the English edition of Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba the book has been translated by David Pan and Jennifer Rust, with introductions by Pan, Rust, and Lupton.
Julia was co-host with her sister Ellen of two design blogs, www.design-your-life.org and d-i-y-kids. Their first book together, DIY Kids was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2007. Their second book, Design Your Life was published by St. Martin’s Press, Spring 2009.
Lupton is the founding director of Humanities Out There, an educational partnership between UCI’s School of Humanities and the Santa Ana Unified School District. By involving scholars, teachers, and students from several institutions in collaborative teaching and research, HOT aims to transform educational practices and intellectual horizons for all participants. In 2006, she received the Ernest A. Lynton Award for Faculty Professional Service and Academic Outreach, awarded annually by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE).
At UCI, Lupton is a frequent contributor to the Humanities Core Course, which serves 1100 freshmen each year. She has served as Director of Core since Fall, 2007.
Julia is married to Kenneth Reinhard, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. Julia dedicated Citizen-Saints to their four children, Hannah, Isabel, Lucy and Eliot.
Julia Lupton and Ken Reinhard
Ellen and Julia Lupton
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