This essay, the Afterword to the edited collection _Performing Shakespeare Appropriations_, eds. Matt Kozusko, Darlena Ciraulo, and Robert Sawyer, summarizes the ways in which the essays in the collection extend the work of the late Christy Desmet (to whose memory the volume is dedicated), historicizes the effects of generational change in the…[Read more]

Describes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton’s Paradise Lost…[Read more]

This short note demonstrates how the hit Neftlix comedy, _Never Have I Ever_, created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher and starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi Vishwakumar, “wittily extends and conforms to the popular conventions of high-school streaming television–including an obligatory episode that subtly appropriates _Romeo and Juliet._”

Seminar paper for World Shakespeare Congress, New Approaches to Book History, adapted from/cut from forthcoming essay, “Conversations Across Time and Space: Early Modern Printed Books and Contemporary Artists’ Books.” Juxtaposes early modern how-to or portable reference books — ready-reckoners or almanacs, herbals and herbaria, astronomical…[Read more]

This paper, “Channeling Hamlet,” considers how audio Shakespeares such as radio broadcasts mean differently: when remediated as an a digital recording of Sir John Gielgud playing Hamlet in a storied broadcast from 1948 (the so-called “entirety” Hamlet), a later recording (1957) of Gielgud’s Hamlet with the cast of the Old Vic on vinyl LP, or s…[Read more]

A vital part of conference planning is the solicitation of participation to potential attendees, both those who are existing members of the association and those who might join in order to participate in the conference. The call for papers (CFP) serves as the first element of outreach to participants. It guides potential attendees in understanding…[Read more]

This essay uses an intersectional approach to identify in the drama of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the patterns that Hannah Arendt called “race thinking” and to extend Arendt’s approach backwards in time as early as the seventeenth century. Famously, Cavendish — poet, playwright, personality– prided herself on her “sing…[Read more]