The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race

Patricia Akhimie is Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Director of the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network. From 2011 to 2023, she served as Assistant and then Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she received the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching (2021) and the Excellence in Online Teaching Award (2023). She is author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Race: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World (Routledge, 2018), co-editor, with Bernadette Andrea of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), and editor of the Arden Othello (4th series). Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Ford Foundation.

1: Patricia Akhimie: Introduction
PART I. SHAKESPEARE AND RACE: AN OVERVIEW
2: Urvashi Chakravarty: Shakespeare and Critical Race Theory
3: Jean E. Howard: Shakespeare, Race, and Feminist Critique
4: Debapriya Sarkar: Naturalizing Race and Racialized Geographies
5: Dennis Britton: 'Thrice fairer than myself': Reading Desire and the Ends of Whiteness in Venus and Adonis
6: Farah Karim-Cooper: The Imperatives of Race-Consciousness in Twenty-First Century Shakespearean Performance
7: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Noma Dumezeni, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: Shakespeare and Race: The Oral Histories
8: Joyce Green MacDonald: Shakespeare, Race, and Adaptation
PART II. ARCHIVES AND INTERSECTIONS
9: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Noma Dumezeni, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: Identity
10: Scott Manning Stevens: Monstrous Indigeneity and the Discourse of Race in Shakespeare's England
11: Mario DiGangi: Shakespeare, Race, and Queer Studies
12: Amrita Dhar: Shakespeare, Race, and Disability: Othello and the Wheeling Strangers of Here and Everywhere
13: Alexa Alice Joubin: Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Legibility
14: Abdulhamit Arvas: Racialized Genders on the Shakespearean Stage
15: Kyle Grady: Shakespeare and Mixed Race
16: Ambereen Dadabhoy: 'Give me conquer'd Egypt': Re-Orienting Egypt in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
17: M. Lindsay Kaplan: Coordinating Racisms in The Merchant of Venice
18: Emily Weissbourd: Shakespeare, Race, and Spain
19: Kimberly Anne Coles: Melancholy Nature: Religion and Bad Faith in Shakespeare
20: Elisa Oh: Shakespeare, Race, and Movement
21: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Noma Dumezeni, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: On Corporeality
22: Holly Dugan: Dispossessed and Unaccommodated: Race and Animality in King Lear
23: Kirsten Mendoza: 'Let fair humanity abhor the deed': Shakespeare, Race, and Human Rights
24: Jennifer Park: Shakespeare, Race, and Science: The Study of Nature and/as the Making of Race
25: David McInnis: Race in Repertory
26: Miles P. Grier: 'Rac'd all over their Bodies': Charting the Study of Shakespeare, Race, and Book History
PART III. SHAKESPEARE AND RACE NOW
27: Peter Erickson and Lisa Graziose Corrin: An Interview with Artist Fred Wilson, July 30, 2021
28: Amrita Sen: Shakespeare and Race on Screen: Racial Journeys in Indian Cinema
29: Carla Della Gatta: Casting Shakespeare Today
30: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Noma Dumezeni, Chukwudi Iwuji, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: Creating Spaces
31: Vanessa I. Corredera: Shakespeare, Race, and Appropriation
32: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: Staging Shakespeare and Race
33: Brandi K. Adams: Editing Shakespeare and Race
34: Alfredo Michel Modenessi: Translation at the Intersections of Shakespeare and Race
35: Carla Della Gatta interviews Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: Approaches to Acting and Staging
36: Laura Turchi: Teaching Shakespeare and Race in Secondary Classrooms: Professional and Political Dimensions of Evolving Pedagogies for Diverse Classrooms
37: Nedda Mehdizadeh: 'In her prophetic fury': Teaching Critical Modes of Intervention in Shakespeare Studies
38: Rebecca Kumar: Resisting Analogies: Refusing Other Othellos in Shakespearean Cinema
39: Jonathan Burton: Teaching Shakespeare and Race: Techniques and Technologies
40: Ruben Espinosa: Teaching Shakespeare and Race in Communities of Colour: Reflections from the US Mexico Border
41: Carla Della Gatta with Adjoa Andoh, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Carl Cofield, Ako Dachs, Noma Dumezeni, Raúl Esparza, Chukwudi Iwuji, Iqbal Khan, Jani Lauzon, John Leguizamo, Natsuko Ohama, Bill Rauch, Whitney White, and Sherri Young: The Oral Histories: My Relationship with Shakespeare
42: Kim F. Hall: 'Reading' Shakespeare as Political Activism