Carol Chillington Rutter

Carol Chillington Rutter is Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick and a National Teaching Fellow. Born in the United States, she has made a village just outside Stratford-upon-Avon her home for thirty-five years. She served the SBT as a representative Trustee for 12 years before being appointed to the Executive Committee in 2016.

Much of her academic publication -- for example, Enter the Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage and Shakespeare and Child's Play: Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen -- has emerged from research conducted in the archives of the SBT. There, she's able to consult a wealth of materials from early printed books -- the Countess of Derby's copy of Plutarch that Shakespeare may have borrowed; Ortelius's Epitome of the world that shows how travellers from London to Venice might have planned their route -- to the performance records of the Royal Shakespeare Company. And it's not just materials, but the expertise offered by the SBT's Collections and Library staff that she can consult there.