Inclusive Shakespeares Identity, Pedagogy, Performance

Sonya Freeman Loftis  (co-editor) is Chair of English and Professor of English at Morehouse College, USA, where she specializes in Renaissance literature and disability studies. She is the author of  Shakespeare and Disability Studies  (2021),  Imagining Autism  (2015), and  Shakespeare's Surrogates  (2013), as well as the co-editor of  Shakespeare's Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion  (2017). Her work has appeared in  Shakespeare Survey ,  The Disability Studies Reader ,  Disability Studies Quarterly , and Shakespeare Bulletin. She currently serves on the editorial boards of  Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies ,  Disability Studies Quarterly ,  Review of Disability Studies , and  Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture.   

     

Mardy Philippian  (co-editor) is Associate Professor of English Studies, former Associate Dean for the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication, and Director of the Literature and Language concentration at Lewis University, USA, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Milton, and early modern English literature. Since 2011, he has served as a member of the editorial board of  The Oswald Review: International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English . His reviews, articles, and book chapters have appeared in  Literature and Film Quarterly ,  Film Criticism ,  Prose Studies ,  Forum for World Literature Studies , in the edited collection  Recovering Disability in Early Modern England  (2013), and in  Early Modern Culture.  

Justin P. Shaw (co-editor) is an Assistant Professor of English at Clark University, USA, where his teaching and research exploresthe intersections of race, emotions, and disability in Shakespeare and early modern English texts. He is completing a book project that examines how disability and racial identity are articulated through melancholic discourse in drama, poetry and prose. Committed to both public and traditional scholarship, his work appears in  Early Theatre ,  White People in Shakespeare  (2022), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Race, Travel, and Identity in Early Modern England, 1550-1700. He is a former fellow of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, has helped to curate exhibits for the Michael C. Carlos Museum such as  Desire & Consumption: The New World in the Age of Shakespeare  and  First Folio: The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare , and has developed the extensive digital humanities project,  Shakespeare and the Players.