The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race

Patricia Akhimie is Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Director of the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network. From 2011 to 2023, she served as Assistant and then Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she received the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching (2021) and the Excellence in Online Teaching Award (2023). She is author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Race: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World (Routledge, 2018), co-editor, with Bernadette Andrea of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), and editor of the Arden Othello (4th series). Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Ford Foundation.

• 1: Patricia Akhimie: Introduction PART I. SHAKESPEARE AND RACE: AN OVERVIEW 2: Urvashi Chakravarty: Shakespeare and Critical Race Theory 3: Jean E. Howard: Shakespeare, Race, and Feminist Critique 4: Debapriya Sarkar: Naturalizing Race and Racialized Geographies 5: Dennis Britton: 'Thrice fairer than myself': Reading Desire and the Ends of Whiteness in Venus and Adonis 6: Farah Karim-Cooper: The Imperatives of Race-Consciousness in Twenty-First Century Shakespearean Performance 7: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Noma Dumezeni, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: Shakespeare and Race: The Oral Histories 8: Joyce Green MacDonald: Shakespeare, Race, and Adaptation PART II. ARCHIVES AND INTERSECTIONS 9: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Noma Dumezeni, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: Identity 10: Scott Manning Stevens: Monstrous Indigeneity and the Discourse of Race in Shakespeare's England 11: Mario DiGangi: Shakespeare, Race, and Queer Studies 12: Amrita Dhar: Shakespeare, Race, and Disability: Othello and the Wheeling Strangers of Here and Everywhere 13: Alexa Alice Joubin: Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Legibility 14: Abdulhamit Arvas: Racialized Genders on the Shakespearean Stage 15: Kyle Grady: Shakespeare and Mixed Race 16: Ambereen Dadabhoy: 'Give me conquer'd Egypt': Re-Orienting Egypt in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra 17: M. Lindsay Kaplan: Coordinating Racisms in The Merchant of Venice 18: Emily Weissbourd: Shakespeare, Race, and Spain 19: Kimberly Anne Coles: Melancholy Nature: Religion and Bad Faith in Shakespeare 20: Elisa Oh: Shakespeare, Race, and Movement 21: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Noma Dumezeni, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: On Corporeality 22: Holly Dugan: Dispossessed and Unaccommodated: Race and Animality in King Lear 23: Kirsten Mendoza: 'Let fair humanity abhor the deed': Shakespeare, Race, and Human Rights 24: Jennifer Park: Shakespeare, Race, and Science: The Study of Nature and/as the Making of Race 25: David McInnis: Race in Repertory 26: Miles P. Grier: 'Rac'd all over their Bodies': Charting the Study of Shakespeare, Race, and Book History PART III. SHAKESPEARE AND RACE NOW 27: Peter Erickson and Lisa Graziose Corrin: An Interview with Artist Fred Wilson, July 30, 2021 28: Amrita Sen: Shakespeare and Race on Screen: Racial Journeys in Indian Cinema 29: Carla Della Gatta: Casting Shakespeare Today 30: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Noma Dumezeni, Chukwudi Iwuji, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: Creating Spaces 31: Vanessa I. Corredera: Shakespeare, Race, and Appropriation 32: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: Staging Shakespeare and Race 33: Brandi K. Adams: Editing Shakespeare and Race 34: Alfredo Michel Modenessi: Translation at the Intersections of Shakespeare and Race 35: Carla Della Gatta interviews Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: Approaches to Acting and Staging 36: Laura Turchi: Teaching Shakespeare and Race in Secondary Classrooms: Professional and Political Dimensions of Evolving Pedagogies for Diverse Classrooms 37: Nedda Mehdizadeh: 'In her prophetic fury': Teaching Critical Modes of Intervention in Shakespeare Studies 38: Rebecca Kumar: Resisting Analogies: Refusing Other Othellos in Shakespearean Cinema 39: Jonathan Burton: Teaching Shakespeare and Race: Techniques and Technologies 40: Ruben Espinosa: Teaching Shakespeare and Race in Communities of Colour: Reflections from the US Mexico Border 41: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Noma Dumezeni, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: My Relationship with Shakespeare 42: Kim F. Hall: 'Reading' Shakespeare as Political Activism