Emma Smith (scholar)

Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Hertford College. She has published and lectured widely on Shakespeare and on other early modern dramatists, and worked with numerous theatre companies. Her lectures are available as podcasts "Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre" and "Approaching Shakespeare".
Life and career.
Smith was educated at Abbey Grange school in Leeds and did her undergraduate degree at Somerville College, Oxford from 1988 to 1991. She was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College Oxford. As part of her work on Shakespeare’s First Folio, Smith worked with conservators, digital specialists and crowd-sourced funding on a Bodleian Library project to digitise a copy of the book. In 2016 she authenticated a new copy of Shakespeare's First Folio found at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute.
With Laurie Maguire of Oxford University she published a new argument in 2012 that Shakespeare's play "All's Well that Ends Well" was a collaboration with Thomas Middleton. The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of 2016, edited by Bourus "et al," was the first printed edition of the play to accept this joint attribution. Another article with Laurie Maguire won the 2014 Hoffman Prize. She was a script advisor to Josie Rourke’s 2018 film "Mary Queen of Scots." She edits the Cambridge University Press journal Shakespeare Survey. 