Lucian Ghita
Principal Lecturer
Contact
Department of English
Office: 615 Strode
Website: https://lucianghita.com/
Email: lghita@clemson.edu
Education
ABD Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Yale University; M.Phil. Comparative Literature, Yale University; M.A. Culture of the European Renaissance, University of Warwick; M.A. American Studies, University of Bucharest; B.A. English and Romanian, University of Craiova
Courses
World Literature, Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, British Literature, Performance Studies
Research Interests
Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and Literature, Adaptation, Performance, Avant-Garde and Modern Drama, Cultural History
Trained in Renaissance Studies and Comparative Literature at Warwick University and Yale University, Lucian Ghita teaches courses in British and World Literature, Shakespeare, early modern drama, cultural history, film adaptation, and performance. His work has appeared in Shakespeare, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, BLARB, Comparative Literature and Culture, Shakespeare Yearbook, Journal of the Kafka Society of America, and other journals and venues. He has led study abroad programs in Rome and is currently co-leading a Creative Inquiry project that applies AI to the study of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Professional/Research Links
https://clemson.academia.edu/LucianGhita
Awards
The Dean’s Outstanding Senior Lecturer Award, May 2025. Clemson English Major’s Club award, September 2023. Holman Teaching Award, Outstanding achievement in teaching by a lecturer, Department of English, Clemson University, March 2019. John B. and Thelma A. Gentry Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, CAAH, Clemson University, May 2016.
Selected Professional Works
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
Enter new public“Avant-garde Macbeth: Jarry and the Politics of Shakespeare’s Theatre,” Global Macbeth, Palgrave, 2025, forthcoming.
Lucian Ghita, Carl Ehrett, Dillon Ranwala, Alison Menezes, Shakespeare Machine: New AI-Based Technologies for Textual Analysis, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2024; Published: 04 June 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqae021
"The Spectacle of Power and the Disenchantment of Theater in Henry VIII." Shakespeare: Complete Works, Vol. XII, Ed. George Volceanov. Bucharest: Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2017.
"Theatre as a Double Play/Play of Doubles." Preface to Shakespeare: Complete Works, vol. X, Ed. George Volceanov. Bucharest: Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2016.
“Ghosting Macbeth: Silviu Purcarete Meets Shakespeare and Jarry." Romanian Shakespeare Journal 2.2 (2014): 45-53.
“Titus Andronicus (directed by Silviu Purcarete)," the National Theater in Craiova, Romania, 14 March 1992, Shakespeare 9.3 (2013): 342-6.
"'To Knit these Broken Limbs Again into One Body': The Semiotics of Dismemberment and the Ethics of Spectatorship in Julie Taymor’s Titus,” Shakespeare Yearbook: Lacan and the Renaissance. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2010.
“Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Taymor's Titus,” Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace. Eds. Alexa Huang and Charles Ross. Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2009. 207-17.
“'I Would Rather Be Honest than Wise': Fictional Protocols and Authorial Credibility in Thomas More's Utopia,” Prose Studies 28.2 (2006): 113-29.
“Spatializing the Body and the Law Machine in Kafka's Der Prozess,” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 1-2 (2006): 3-19.
“'I Can neither Write nor Be Silent': The Circulation of Women’s Texts in Sidney’s Old Arcadia,” Literature Compass 3.2 (2006): 95-106.
“Reality and Metaphor in Jane Howell's and Julie Taymor's Productions of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus,” CLCWeb 6.1 (2004): https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1215
