About
Marinela Golemi is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focused on Shakespeare and English Literature. Prior, She was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the United States Military Academy and she has also taught Composition and Literature at Arizona State University, where she received her PhD in English Literature. She specializes in Early Modern English drama and literature, with particular investments in local and global Shakespeare, translation, performance, and adaptation. Other research interests include race, gender, and environmental studies. Her publications appear in Multicultural Shakespeare and Philosophy and Literature. Her forthcoming work focuses on Shakespearean adaptations in Albania. Education
Ph.D. English Literature, Arizona State University, (Expected).
B.A. English Literature, UMass Boston, 2015.
A.A. Early Childhood Education, Bunker Hill Community College, 2013. Publications
“Othello in the Balkans: Performing Race Rhetoric on the Albanian Stage.” Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance, vol. 22, no. 37, 2020, pp. 125-138.
“Shakespeare Faciebat: Non-Finito Aesthetics in Timon of Athens.” Philosophy and Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, 2022, pp. 38-53. Upcoming Talks and Conferences
Invited Talks
Shakespeare and Uncertainty: A Webinar on Literature and Politics with Emma Smith and Eliot Cohen
United States Military Academy at West Point Mar. 2022
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare
United States Military Academy at West Point Feb. 2022
Seminars
“What country, friends, is this?”: Twelfth Night Returns to Illyria
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), virtual Apr. 2022
Glocal Shakespeare Users in the Digital Era: Diplomacy and Dissension in Albania’s II Henry VI
World Shakespeare Congress (WSC), virtual July 2021
Theater of Dolls and Shadows: Glocalizing Macbeth in Albania
European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), virtual June 2021
The Body Politics of Political Adaptations in Albania: Julius Caesar as a Palimpsest
European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), virtual June 2021
Class Passing: Racialized Rhetoric and Racial Prosthetics in As You Like It
Renaissance Society of America (RSA), virtual Apr. 2021
Cross-Dressing and Cross-Gender Casting: Hamlet as an Albanian Sworn Virgin
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), virtual Mar. 2021
Conferences
Body Politics and Revolution: Localizing Julius Caesar in Albania
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), Boulder, Colorado Oct. 2021
Between Serbia and Kosovo: Staging Ethnic Conflict in Romeo and Juliet
Wooden O Symposium, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Virtual Aug. 2020
Political Prisoners: Reanimating the Lost Voices of Albanian Poets
Modern Language Association (MLA) International Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal July 2019
Othello in the Balkans: Shakespearean Adaptations and Racial Unity in Albania
British Shakespeare Association (BSA), Wales, UK July 2019
Naked Pleasures: Making Skin Move in L’Escole des Filles and I Modi
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Washington, D.C. Mar. 2019
On All Fours: Performing Domestic Animality in Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Toronto, Canada Mar. 2019
Compulsory Homeovestism: The Fabrication of the Fashioned Body in Renaissance Germany
(Co-authored with Matthew Pascucci)
Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara Mar. 2019
‘Hear me but speak’: Rhetorical Witchcraft in Arden of Faversham
ACMRS and MAP, Arizona Feb. 2019
Politics and Performance: Shakespeare on the Albanian Stage
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Washington Nov. 2018
Sexual Ecology: The Bawdy Body in Pericles
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), Arizona Feb. 2018 Memberships
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)
Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
International Shakespeare Association (ISA)
British Shakespeare Association (BSA)
European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA)
