Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw
Professor Luke Harris
Professor Ian Smith
Professor Ayanna Thompson
Professor Arthur L. Little and Professor Kim F. Hall
Shakespeare & Race Symposium speakers.
Our Shakespeare & Race festival culminates in an international symposium - Shakespeare and Race Across Borders: A Scholarly Symposium
This ground-breaking conference brings together scholars from the disciplines of race, Shakespeare, theatre and performance studies to discuss the ways in which race is taught at university, discussed in the critical field and represented in performance.
Keynote speakers for the symposium comprise Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and UCLA, she coined the term “intersectionality” and is a leader in the intellectual movement of Critical Race Theory.
Professor Luke Harris is Associate Professor of American Politics and Constitutional Law at Vassar College and co-founder of the African American Policy Forum.
Professor Ian Smith is a professor of English and teaches at Lafayette College. His current research project, Black Shakespeare, examines Shakespeare’s interest in social and political racial identities.
Professor Ayanna Thompson has written extensively on the subject of Shakespeare and race. Ayanna is the 2018-19 President of the Shakespeare Association of America and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University.
Professor Arthur L. Little is an Associate Professor of English at UCLA and author of numerous articles on Shakespeare, race and justice.
Professor Kim F. Hall (Barnard College) will also be on the panel. Kim is Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College, University of Colombia. Kim delivers this year’s Sam Fellowship Lecture.
Other keynote speakers:
Professor Devon Carbado teaches at UCLA School of Law and has won numerous teaching awards, including the inaugural Fletcher Foundation Fellowship.
Professor Ania Loomba is the Catherine Byson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania where she researches and teaches early modern literature, race and feminist theory.
Professor Joyce Green MacDonald is the Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.