Laurie Johnson
Professor
Laurie Johnson is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at University of Southern Queensland and a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Historical Society. Current roles include President of the Marlowe Society of America, Research Dramaturg for the Oxford Marlowe Project, Academic Adviser to the Museum of Shakespeare, Shoreditch, and Project Researcher for the Weather Extremes in England’s Little Ice Age,1500-1700 database. His publications include The Earl of Leicester’s Men and their Plays: An Early Elizabethan Playing Company and its Legacy (Cambridge, 2023) and Shakespeare’s Lost Playhouse: Eleven Days in Newington Butts (Routledge, 2018).