Nicoleta Cinpoeş is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Worcester. Her research in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies specialises in Shakespeare staged, on the screen, in the classroom, on the internet, translated, appropriated, adapted and recycled.

At Worcester, she is currently Head of English, Media & Culture, and contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate modules across the English Literature curriculum. Her teaching focuses on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, early modern literature and culture, film adaptations, and European theatre. Her innovative teaching has led to her becoming a Higher Education Academy Fellow.

She is the author of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Romania 1778-2008: A Study in Translation, Performance and Cultural Appropriation (Mellen, 2010) and of the open-access website: The Jacobethans. Her work has appeared in Theatrical Blends, Shakespeare Bulletin, Studia Dramatica and Shakespeare in Europe: History and Memory. In the theatre, she has worked in several capacities from that of dramaturge to assistant director and translator. She collaborated on a new Romanian translation of Shakespeare's Complete Works, writing introductions to: Hamlet (2010) and Titus Andronicus (2019).