Dramatic literature, especially Shakespeare;
rhetoric, expository writing, managerial communication
Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama;
Representations of the Ottoman Empire in early modern English literature; domestication of goods from Muslim lands in Elizabethan comedies set in 16th-17th-century London; early modern "globalization." Co-founder of the
Shakespeare and Dance Project, an interactive scholarly website for the exploration and documentation of dance in and based on Shakespeare's plays.
Educated at Wellelsey College and Harvard University, Linda McJannet has published four scholarly books and numerous essays on Shakespeare and Early Modern drama, with special reference to the representation of the Ottomans and other Muslim peoples. She is also the author of a text and cases in managerial communication. She lives in Cambridge, MA.