James N. Loehlin, was an American literary historian, professor, stage director, actor, and writer from Austin, Texas who served as the Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor of English and director of the Shakespeare at Winedale program at University of Texas at Austin. He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and earned joint Ph.D. in Drama and Humanities at Stanford. He taught in the Drama Department at Dartmouth College. He was the son of the Psychology Professor and Behavior Geneticist John Loehlin.