Academic Title: Professor Emeritus

Clifford Werier was a Professor of English at Mount Royal University, where he taught Early Modern Literature since 1987, retiring in 2023.. He is the editor of Shakespeare and Consciousness (Palgrave, 2016) and The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface (2023), a collection which focuses on the ways in which the interface features of page, screen, stage and other media influence Shakespearean cognition and understanding. His recent publications investigate the phenomenology of time across media in the processing of Shakespearean jokes and the application of meme theory to the spread of contagious ideas in Coriolanus. He is also the co-author of three composition textbooks for Nelson Canada. As Professor Emeritus, he continues to participate in the Shakespeare world through conference attendance and publications.