About
Todd Landon Barnes is Associate Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey. His essays and reviews have appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin, Public Books, Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming), Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, Shakespearean Echoes, Hamlet Handbook: Subject Matter, Adaptations, Interpretations, and Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader, part of the Arden Shakespeare’s Early Modern Drama Guides series. Barnes has served as dramaturg for the African-American Shakespeare Company in San Francisco, where he also worked in educational outreach. He is currently completing a monograph on Shakespeare, performance, and neoliberalism. He serves on the editorial board for Cambridge University Press’s forthcoming Elements: Shakespeare Performance series. Education
PhD / University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric and Film Studies
MA / University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric
BA / University of California, Berkeley, English Publications
- “Aesthetic Borderlands in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books,” Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, Special Issue: “Beyond Mind,” edited by Natasha Lushetich, Vol. 19, forthcoming in 2019 (refereed journal)
- “‘Nature’s Journeymen’: Cultivating Political Desires in New York City’s Shakespeare Gardens,” in Enchanted, Stereotyped, Civilized: Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film, edited by Sabine Planka and Feryal Cubukcu. Würzburg, Germany: Königshausen & Neumann, forthcoming in 2018
- “Review: Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood, by Jeffrey Knapp, Oxford University Press, 2017” for Renaissance Quarterly, edited by Sarah Covington. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming in 2018 (refereed journal)
- “Striking Our Debt to Moral Tragedy: Retributive Economics in Julius Caesar,” in Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader, edited by Andrew J. Hartley. Arden Shakespeare Early Modern Drama Guides. London: Bloomsbury, 2016
- “Shakespeare in 2016,” Public Books, May 1, 2016. Public Books is an online multimedia site affiliated with the print journal Public Culture (Duke University Press), which is edited by Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom. Public Books is an initiative of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University.
- “Macbeth’s ‘Strange Garments’: Borrowing Africa’s Robes,” Guide to the Season’s Plays: 2016-2017. Shakespeare Theatre Company. 2016. The Shakespeare Theatre Company (formerly the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger Library), in Washington DC, is the premier Shakespearean theater company in the US. An excerpt of this essay appeared in Asides, the playbill for Macbeth, directed by Liesl Tommy, whose recent Broadway production of Eclipsed was nominated for six Tony awards; it was also the first Broadway production to have an all-female cast, director, and playwright.
- “The Tempest’s ‘Standing Water’: Echoes of Early Modern Cosmographies in Lost,” in Shakespearean Echoes, edited by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. and Adam Hansen. London: Palgrave MacMillan UK, 2015
- “Hamlet on the Potomac: Anti-Intellectualism in American Political Discourse Before and After ‘the Decider’,” in Hamlet Handbook: Subject Matter, Adaptations, Interpretations (Hamlet Handbuch: Stoffe, Aneignungen, Deutungen), edited by Peter W. Marx. Stuttgart/Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler, March 2014
- “The African-American Shakespeare’s Macbeth Project,” Shakespeare Bulletin Special Issue: African-American Shakespeares. 27.3 (Fall 2009) Washington: Johns Hopkins University Press, 462-468 (refereed journal)
- “Hip Hop Macbeths, “Digitized Blackness,” and the Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture Sharing in the Virtual Classroom” in Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, edited by Ayanna Thompson and Scott Newstok. New York: Palgrave, 2009.
- “George W. Bush’s ‘Three Shakespeares’: Macbeth, Macbush, and the Theater of War,” Shakespeare Bulletin 26.3 (Fall 2008) Washington: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-29 (refereed journal)
- Immanent Shakespearing: Politics, Performance, Pedagogy. Dissertation, Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, Published to eSchlarship: UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010. Available at: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8kv979rk Requested/downloaded 473 times
