Teaching Shakespeare in Tempestuous Times

Craig Dionne is Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, USA. He is author of Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene (2016) and has co-edited several anthologies including Bollywood Shakespeares (2014), Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage (2008), Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (2005), and Disciplining English (2002) with David Shumway. Timothy Francisco is Professor of English and Director for the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University, USA. He co-edited with Sharon O'Dair Shakespeare and the 99 %: Literary Studies, The Profession and The Production of Inequity (2019), co-wrote “Whither Goest Thou Public Shakespearian” lead essay for Shakespeare Survey’s special issue on Education, (2021,) and co-edited a special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin on “Public Shakespeare and Performance” (2023).Sharon O’Dair is Professor Emerita of English and was the former director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama, USA. In addition to her recent collaborations with Francisco, she is author of Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars (2000) and co-edited The Production of English Renaissance Culture (1994).

• List of contributorsIntroductionSection One: Contours and Limits of the Problem1. “Come un-bundle here: Un-disciplined Shakespeare and the Trojan horses of Neoliberalism.”Timothy Francisco, Youngstown State University, USA2. “Humanism’s Lonely Hour: Shakespeare and the Enrollment Cliff. Or Can We Imagine Shakespeare without Students?”Craig Dionne, Eastern Michigan University, USA3. “Losing the Canon: From the Great Books to ‘Welcome to College’ Courses.”Beth McDermott, William Douglas Mastin, and Kevin Andrew Spicer, University of St. Francis, Joliet, USA4. “The ‘Multi-Hyphenate’ Student: On the Role of Shakespeare in Professional Arts Programs .”Joel M. Dodson, Southern CT State University, USA5. “Here are only numbers ratified”: Reflective Outcomes in the Shakespeare ClassroomJay Zysk, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA6. “’And one man in his time plays many parts’: Contextualisation and Its Pressures for the Emerging Shakespearean Generalist.” Benjamin Djain, American University, USASection Two: Imaginative Ways Forward7. “’Create Me New’?: Transformational Shakespeares.”Kimberly Huth, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA8. “Fact and Fiction of Creative Work”Doug Eskew, Colorado State University, Pueblo, USA9. “Care, Community, and Environmental Justice: Shakespearean Eco-Theater.”Katherine Steele Brokaw, University of California, Merced., USA10. “Titanic Realities: The Dispossessed Community College.”Jeffrey Butcher, Scottsdale Community College, USA11. “#ECUFatHam: Theater Travel as Immersive Learning.”Marianne Montgomery, East Carolina University, USAAfterword, “On the Cliffs of Dover.”Sharon O’Dair, University of Alabama, USAReferencesIndex