Associate Vice Chancellor and Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara

Mark Rose is Professor in the English Department and Associate Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1977. He received a B.Litt. from Oxford University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967 and has taught at Yale University and the University of Illinois as well as at UCSB. From 1989 to 1994 he was Director of the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute, located on the Irvine campus. He is the author of many books on subjects ranging from Shakespeare to Science Fiction as well as of Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Harvard Univ. Press, 1993), which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He also frequently serves as a consultant and expert in litigation involving allegations of copyright infringement. His current interests include both Shakespeare and the history and theory of intellectual property. He was a member of the Digital Cultures Project, a University of California Multi-Campus Research Group in 2000-2005.

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