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Two "Stigma in Shakespeare" talks at MLA 2020

May 25, 2019

"Shax’s Invention of Stigma: Richard’s Deformity, Aaron’s Race, Faulconbridge’s Bastardy” (Representing the Other in Medieval and Early Modern Drama) The fusion of comedy and tragedy in the Vice allowed English dramatists before Shakespeare to capture the...

"Shakespeare and Trump" in April 2020

January 16, 2019

Happy to announce my (first!) book #ShakespeareAndTrump will come out in April 2020 from @TempleUnivPress. Would your community enjoy an event putting our moment in conversation with Shakespeare? Lots of laughs, lots to think about. Involve local theater...

"The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare’s Drama" in Genre

November 28, 2018

New article (really the centerpiece) from the #StigmaInShakespeare project: Richard III, Aaron, Shylock, Edmund, Falstaff, Thersites, and Caliban - oh my! “The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare’s Drama.” Genre 51.3 (2018): 237-66. https://read.dukeupress...

"Stigma as Drama in The Tempest” in MaRDiE

November 08, 2018

My latest reads the Italians in #TheTempest reading #Caliban’s body, aligning #Shakespeare’s vision of #stigma w #Goffman’s theories. “‘Savage and deformed’: Stigma as Drama in The Tempest.” Mediaeval and Renaissance Drama in England 31 (2018): 146-77...

"Shakespeare's Advice for First-Year College Students" in Change

November 03, 2018

"'As a stranger give it welcome': #Shakespeare's Advice for First-Year College Students" On intellectual #xenophobia & #hospitality in #Hamlet, using immigration to think about the ideas we choose to let in. New for Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning...

"Mass Shootings as Tragedy" in "The Smart Set"

July 19, 2018

Something Is Rotten in the United States of America: Mass Shootings as Tragedy appeared in The Smart Set. Thanks to @thesmartset for running this piece. "Politicians, stop saying mass shootings are tragedies unless you’re going to do what literary critics...

"Anthropology of Audience" at British Shakespeare Conference

June 19, 2018

I've uploaded my talk, The Anthropology of Audience in Shakespeare Studies, at the British Shakespeare Association 2018 conference in Belfast.

"Stigma and Sympathetic Imagination" in "Making Strangers"

March 13, 2018

"'You must needs be strangers’: Stigma and Sympathetic Imagination in Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More” was published in the collection Making Strangers: Outsiders, Aliens and Foreigners.

"Shakespeare for Cops" at the Hudson Strode Program

February 24, 2018

I've uploaded the talk I gave, Shakespeare for Cops, at the http://teachingshakespeare.ua.edu conference at the @hudstrode program. Thanks to the organizers for an excellent day.

“Strategic Presentism” at MLA

January 06, 2018

I am looking forward to taking part in a roundtable titled “Strategic Presentism” at the 2018 MLA convention in New York. Session 468. Strategic Presentism SATURDAY, 6 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, NASSAU WEST (HILTON) Presentism has often been the name for an...

"Shakespeare and Trump" in Lowell's Parker Lecture Series

September 12, 2017

"Shakespeare and Trump" Jeffrey R. Wilson Harvard University Tuesday, September 12, 2017 7 PM Pollard Memorial Library 401 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA 01852 Presented by the Moses Greeley Parker Lecture Series parkerlectures.com During the 2016 election...

"Shakespeare Against Philosophy" in Shakespeare

July 07, 2017

The essay "To be, or not to be": Shakespeare Against Philosophy was published in the Routledge journal Shakespeare: This essay hazards a new reading of the most famous passage in Western literature: “To be, or not to be” from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet...