MIT Global Shakespeares

MIT Global Shakespeares co-founder Alexa Alice Joubin spoke on a roundtable at the World Shakespeare Congress in Singapore in July, 2021. Entitled “Gender and Sexuality: The State of the Fields,” this roundtable highlights a variety of approaches currently animating studies of gender and sexuality in performance studies, queer philology, trans theory, and queer theory. Read More

Cristiane Busato Smith, lead regional editor of Brazil for MIT Global Shakespeares and lecturer at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Arizona State University, will give a lecture on What You Need to Know About Shakespeare Before the World Ends. The event takes place 1:30 – 3:00 pm on Thursday, March 11, 2021. Read More

Diana Henderson, Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Co-editor of Shakespeare Studies, spoke in a recent podcast entitled Shakespeare, Woolf, and Shake-shifting, part of a series called Women and Shakespeare. She discussed “Virginia Woolf’s collaborations with Shakespeare, Shakespeare Films, adaptations and Shake-shifting, and collaborative models for the discipline.” Read More

Join playwright Caleen Jennings and scholars Ania Loomba and Alexa Alice Joubin for a discussion of the representation of BIPOC in Shakespeare’s work and productions as well as Shakespeare’s texts in relation to both thespian and scholastic platforms in an honest and open discussion. Read More

MIT Global Shakespeares co-founder Alexa Alice Joubin will deliver a keynote address on Teaching Global Shakespeares and Non-Linear Thinking through Digital Humanities at the University of Alabama Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies Symposium on  “The Future of Teaching Shakespeare,” February 21-22, 2020. Read More

Eating Shakespeare: Cultural Anthropophagy as Global Methodology is a new collection of essays and interviews by leading scholars and researchers offering their perspectives on the meaning of “Global Shakespeare.” It is part of the Arden Shakespeare’s Global Shakespeare Inverted series. Read More

Dr. Cristiane Busato Smith, Global Shakespeares regional editor for Brazil, will chair a session on Friday, February 07, 2014 on Shakespeare and the Catastrophic at the 20th Annual ACMRS Conference, Arizona State University. She will also be presenting a paper entitled “Macbeth: Visions of Apocalypse Now and Then” on Saturday, February 08, 2014. Read More

Video highlights from the Korean Tempest film screening and colloquium which took place in Washington, D.C. November 4-5, 2011. Read More