Erin is Senior Lecturer and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute. Educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA), she came to the UK to study for an MA at the Shakespeare Institute, staying to complete a PhD at University College London before returning to Stratford to take up her current post in 2010.
Erin is a cultural historian and literary scholar, whose work covers both the history of the emotions, particularly sadness, and the performance of Shakespeare today. Her most recent book is Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England.