How has the work of editing Shakespeare’s plays perpetuated racial stereotypes, and what can contemporary scholars do to dismantle editorial commentary that has, for centuries, espoused objective authority while practicing unexamined racism?
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In this talk, Prof. Patricia Akhimie seeks to demonstrate the race-making work of textual emendation and omission with the goal of empowering a more diverse set of readers and thinkers to engage with the text by engaging with the theory and practice of textual editing.
Patricia Akhimie is Director of the Folger Institute, Director of the RaceB4Race Mentoring Network, and Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She teaches and publishes on Shakespeare, race in the Renaissance, and women’s travel writing.
This talk is free and open to all. Please register below.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
11:00 a.m. PST
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This event is part of Shakespeare’s First Folio: 1623–2023, a public humanities project staged by Portland State University and other regional arts organizations from September 2023 through May 2024.
This program is sponsored in part by Black Studies, Judaic Studies, and World Languages and Literatures at Portland State University.