Rasmussen, Eric, 1960-

Eric Rasmussen is an American scholar, academic and author. He is Regents Teaching Professor and Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nevada. Rasmussen's scholarship is focused on the work of Shakespeare. He has authored numerous books and editions, including The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios (2011). Rasmussen is the co-editor of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2007) and The Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama (2002) as well as editions for the Arden Shakespeare, Oxford's World's Classics, the Revels Plays, the Malone Society, and The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. His authentication of a newly-discovered Shakespeare First Folio in 2014 garnered a lot of attention, in the wake of which The Washington Post called him "the Robert Langdon of the Shakespearean world". Rasmussen is a general editor of The New Variorum Shakespeare and The Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia. He has served on the board of trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America and on the Council of the Malone Society. Rasmussen wrote the annual review of editions and textual studies for Cambridge University Press's Shakespeare Survey from 1999 to 2010.