Professor Julie Sanders is Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London. She joined Royal Holloway in October 2022, having previously been Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at Newcastle University, also in the UK.

Before that she was at the University of Nottingham where she held positions as Head of the School of English (2010-13) and as Vice- Provost (2013-15) of their China campus in Ningbo.

Julie studied for her BA at the University of Cambridge and her Masters and PhD at the University of Warwick. She also enjoyed time as a visiting student at Ca’Foscari in Venice and University of California Berkeley.

She is a Professor of English Literature and Drama and remains an active researcher with current projects with both Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, including work on Shakespeare and social justice in the context of global adaptations.

She has held grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy as well as the Korean Research Council. Her monograph The Cultural Geography of Early Modern English Drama, 1620-1650 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) was the recipient of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay prize for international women’s scholarship in 2012 and her book on Adaptation and Appropriation for Routledge has been published in several editions and translated into Arabic, Korean and Japanese.

She has held visiting fellowships in Canada, the USA and Australia, was a serving member for panels for the Australian Research Council (2019-20) and has undertaken research reviews for universities in Sweden, Ireland and the UK.