Overview

Join Dr. Peggy O’Brien, the Folger’s Director of Education, and Dr. Ruben Espinosa, Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, for a conversation about race in Shakespeare. This talk considers the value of critical race studies to our teaching of Shakespeare. More specifically, it explores the way animosity toward Black and brown individuals in our present moment shapes encounters with Shakespeare. When we attend to race and racism in and through Shakespeare, we are able to apprehend the full scope of his enduring relevance today. This Feed Your Teacher Brain! conversation on Shakespeare and Race is FREE for all educators. 

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Dr. Espinosa is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he specializes in Shakespeare and early modern literature. He is the author of Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare’s England(2011) and co-editor of Shakespeare and Immigration (2014). He has published numerous essays and articles, and he serves on the Editorial Boards of Shakespeare Quarterly, Exemplaria: Medieval, Early Modern, Theory, and Palgrave’s “Early Modern Cultural Studies” series. In 2018, he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America. He is currently at work on his next two monographs, Shakespeare on the Border: Language, Legitimacy and La Frontera, and Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism(Forthcoming June 2021, Routledge). Follow him @respinsoa1564