Professor Martin Orkin holds degrees from The University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and from the University of London. He
taught at the University of Natal, Durban, and The University of the
Witwatersrand before he joined the University of Haifa, where he
teaches in the Departments of Theatre and English. Orkin is the author
of Shakespeare Against Apartheid, (Craighall: Ad. Donker, 1987),
Drama and the South African State, (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1991) as well as many articles on topics to do with
early modern drama and cultural studies, e.g., proverbial allusions in
Shakespeare, The Politics of Editing the Shakespeare Text in South
Africa, The Tempest in the context of the post-1994 South African academic
scene. He edited At The Junction,
a collection of four plays by the Junction Avenue Theatre Company, one
of South Africa's best known and most successful workshop theatre
groups. With Ania Loomba he has edited Post-Colonial
Shakespeares, (London and New York: Routledge). Since 2000 he is the
Head of the Department of Theatre, University of Haifa, and is in
charge of the preparatory committee working out the program for
advanced studies at the Department of Theatre.
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