Professor Shapiro has taught as a Fulbright lecturer at Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv Universities, and has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He is a columnist for The Chronicle for Higher Education.

Publications:

Books:

• Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991)
• Shakespeare and the Jews (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995) (awarded the Bainton Prize for Best Book on Sixteenth-century Literature)
• Co-editor of The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995)
• Associate editor of The Columbia History of British Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994)