Presenters

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Patricia Akhimie

Rutgers University – “‘Bruis’d with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors”

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Roya Biggie

City University of New York – “Caring for Hybrid Life in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus”

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David Sterling Brown

University of Arizona – “‘Is Black so Base a Hue?’: Black Life Matters in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus”

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Madiha Hannachi

University of Montreal – “Contemporary Arab Adaptations of Shakespeare as Cultural Reversal of the Early Modern Pattern of Representation”

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Aileen Liu

University of California, Berkeley – “‘Nor the time nor place’: Storytelling in Cymbeline”

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Kirsten Mendoza

Vanderbilt University – “Dido’s Sacrifice: A Critique of Empire through the Hindu Sati and Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage”

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Jennifer Park

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – “Discandying Cleopatra: Preserving Cleopatra’s Infinite Variety in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra”

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José Villagrana

University of California, Berkeley – “Sir Philip Sidney, Courtier Prophet”