the werk

"Baldwin, Shakespeare, Whiteness, and (Anti)Fandom: 'What's love got to do with it?'"

What You Will in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring the Digital Arts, Race and Flexible Resistance

“Hood Feminism”: Whiteness and Segregated (Premodern) Scholarly Discrouse in the Post-Postracial Era

“Is Black so Base a Hue?”: Black Life Matters in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare's White Others (Cambridge UP, 2023) eBook & hardcover; audiobook & Audio CD narrated by author

(Un)Just Acts: Shakespeare and Social Justice in Contemporary Performance

Teaching Guide: “Hood Feminism”: Whiteness and Segregated (Premodern) Scholarly Discrouse in the Post-Postracial Era

Remixing the Family: Blackness and Domesticity in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

"Shake thou to look on’t": Shakespearean White Hands

I Feel Most White When I am…: Foregrounding the "Sharp White Background" of Anchuli Felicia King’s "Keene"

(Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the “Sonic Color Line”

"Blanched with Fear": Reading the Racialized Soundscape in Macbeth

“Unicorns and Fairy Dust": Talking Shakespeare, Performance and Social (In)Justice with Ayanna Thompson and Farah Karim-Cooper

Things of Darkness: “The Blueprint of a Methodology”

Seeking the (In)Visible: Whiteness and Shakespeare Studies

(Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the Color-Line

Code Black: Whiteness and Unmanliness in Hamlet

Shakespeare Studies Forum, Vol. 50 (Fall 2022)

Senior Editor, with Patricia Akhimie & Arthur L. Little, Jr.

Shakespeare Bulletin, “Shakespeare & Social Justice in Contemporary Performance” 39.4, with a formal dedication to my paternal grandmother the late “Mrs. Christine Wright and to all women who have been unjustly impacted by the dual assault of systemic racism and sexism.”

Co-Editor with Sandra Young, Winter 2021

Scholar • Author • Speaker • ACLS/Mellon Foundation Award Winner •

Scholar • Author • Speaker • ACLS/Mellon Foundation Award Winner •