Knowledge Commons | Mark-Allan Donaldson | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/markallan/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Mark-Allan Donaldson is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bc68de8524e411bcab1f7000eb1fd104 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/groups/the-renaissance-society-of-america/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:54:04 -0500 <p style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 95b7704e6faf7a0689eea2dd325c3243 Chuck Choi started the topic Architectural Photography/Art Photography for your field of interest. in the forum The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/groups/the-renaissance-society-of-america/forum/topic/architectural-photography-art-photography-for-your-field-of-interest/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:00:12 -0400 <span style="font-family: Gill Sans;">Dear RSA Member

Are you in need architectural photographs for your research topic, or for publication or teaching purposes?

I am an architectural photographer of over 25 years.  I have worked for contemporary architects such as Foster and Partners, Renzo Piano, Rogers Stirk Harbour, and others.  You may s…[Read more]

]]> b2ad442f9fd5013d69c74becccd005c2 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900897/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:23:44 -0400 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 f45f7dd9fe27752c1e55eb70d3990df8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900891/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:15:56 -0400 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a24bdc98ad9f3f6df8c7f10e2d8c28 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900886/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:08:07 -0400 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin's interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4e5e031726d1ac5910ecb54eb93cb87 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900084/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:07:53 -0400 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0d1acda6f8698a3dc98be0ffcbc4207 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891697/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:06:12 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 d10f75e3ad36d109c2fc29239f83e28a Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891476/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:33 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f217e53b07a66e9ad7db7277826e711 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891473/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:16 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 d900e2eedff63a715f5c9edd33b29fba Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Late Tudor and Stuart Drama to The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886890/ Wed, 22 May 2024 18:18:43 -0400 This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that focus on English drama from the late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (ca. 1550–1650). The editor is interested in intersectional and interdisciplinary feminist perspectives, broadly conceived, and encourages studies that investigate the discursive production of g…[Read more]

]]> 0 08b914c0c153e765b9eb49476787aa13 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886052/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:23:19 -0400 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

This year’s Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on the theme of global disability performances of Shakespeare. Curated by K…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7646c172668a74d43f79f661e1ba260 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886047/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:13:00 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f750d48f18f9833c4ac2c6f9fbe8e86 Patrick Hart deposited From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300-1700 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881706/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:12 -0400 This article considers English and Scandinavian sermon tales alongside accounts of parish practice from 1300-1700, focusing on dance among the laity. It posits that the negative perspective of Scandinavian Protestants towards dance was a result of the medieval North Sea networks that brought England’s approach to dance to Nordic parishes, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1669112259286371b4ed17258f938a8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878068/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:27:13 -0500 Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia by Alexa Alice Joubin. Lecture video now available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/R8mbUd_mHjQ Drawing on her forthcoming book, Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2024), Alexa Alice Joubin examines cultural encounters with Shakespeare’s plays as heterotopia, a set of parallel s…[Read more]

]]> 0 a97dce3761b7573fa472763b43997351 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited CBC Podcast: Liberate Your Mind – Exploring Sex and Gender in Shakespeare, February 20, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878063/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:19:13 -0500 Full podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/dNhxFiaoIGM This is a CBC Radio podcast on gender roles in Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Taming of the Shrew, recorded live at Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada. “Liberate your mind, said English professor Alexa Alice Joubin, urging us to embrace the Bard’s open-endedness to ambiguity in…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddc1e87a88e1350ff1c5c839f7f80d42 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 195-211. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876058/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:08:13 -0500 Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, have broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 039cd6cf438b3e8ae66337703477f358 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI, Theater, and Interface Theory, keynote at Imaging Across Time: Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2023 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875821/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:08:14 -0500 What happens when AI goes to theatre with human audiences? Generative AI's natural-language conversational interface has frequently been cast as an anthropomorphic interface. In performance, digital screen as interface has evolved from a vehicle for dramatic messages to a meaning-making agent with an anthropomorphic presence. While the tendency to…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddd1f4f983a379519fb113bf48415c4d Jessica Marie Otis started the topic CFP: Mathematical Humanists Summer Workshops in the discussion The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/groups/the-renaissance-society-of-america/forum/topic/cfp-mathematical-humanists-summer-workshops-3/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:45:03 -0500 The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is hosting two Statistics and Network Analysis workshops this August. Those interested in developing a foundation for understanding the assumptions made in #DH methods are invited to apply by February 15.

We seek participants interested in developing a conceptual foundation for understanding t…[Read more]

]]> 4cc6ddda15ed167ca1ba2dfc5039d794 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1872235/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:08:25 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 87709b8dfd80b05120067a570f99017c Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1872219/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:08:47 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba7815e5fec267d8e828035ae2bc7f15 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of #SuchStuff Podcast by the London Globe, Early Modern Digital Review 6.2 (2023): 149-153 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871761/ Sat, 20 Jan 2024 04:05:28 -0500 Educational podcasts have gained momentum in recent years. Closure of live performance venues and widespread lockdowns as part of public hygiene measures during the global COVID-19 pandemic further increased interest in at-home consumption of digitally delivered content for entertainment and education. Supported by the Globe Theatre’s education d…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cb06d9857533ca4498bf97642c55216 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness," Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866125/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:08:20 -0500 Inclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 d33b183b3fd9f9786ef427b6dd9fd843 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Plenary: "Are There Transgender Characters in Shakespeare?" Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia, November 4, 2023. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864509/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:08:30 -0500 Video recording of Alexa Alice Joubin's plenary is available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/8P5nNv86goQ There are certainly non-binary actors on stage, but are there Shakespearean characters who can be read as trans? The answer is yes. To ask whether there are transgender characters is to ask questions about the performance of gender roles. We are…[Read more]

]]> 0 5016192b6fb96c351300e05ecefd3c3b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Pericles, ed. Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Deanne Williams in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864066/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:05:37 -0500 This volume focuses on Pericles, Prince of Tyre, whose narrative of refugee suffering, familial loss, emotional distancing, people-trafficking, and eventual, joyous recovery speaks strikingly to our historical moment. The play’s internationalist reach, its images of cross-cultural relations, and its Eastern Mediterranean setting also promote a r…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee1577cbe89effd99a4f030772292326 Christopher Crosbie deposited Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855434/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:23:50 -0400 The Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]

]]> 0 f09424ec54683b2ccd01aaa40d79ccf0 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Lin Shu." The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852245/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:51:59 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]

]]> 0 66901ff1989972be7a5e74b942d1fa1d Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849986/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:24:15 -0400 Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774), a Bolognese wax sculptor, overcame humble origins to become one of the most important anatomical artists of the eighteenth century. Working with her husband Giovanni Manzolini (c. 1700–1755), and continuing alone after his death, Morandi created remarkably lifelike and anatomically accurate wax models of the sen…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e3c00f9c30795cdc28de21ba2c49ce8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846408/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:47:09 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor Joubin’s “contributions to social justice and inclusive excellence ” that exemplify “the ideals that Dr. King espoused,” particularly “community-based social justice organizing rooted in non-violence.” The MLK Award comes on the heel of her bell hook…[Read more]

]]> 0 528d285c18c43c759170fae2cff1490b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Afterword: Adaptation studies and interactive pedagogies." Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences, ed. Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 187-200. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846402/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:41:09 -0400 Criticism of the Shakespearean canon through adaptation as a genre has the capacity for liberation and social reparation. As a cluster of complex texts that sustains both past practices and contemporary interpretive conventions, Shakespeare provides fertile ground for training students to listen intently and compassionately to other individuals’ v…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4e17949609e59314d8fc0244121197a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "What makes Global Shakespeares an exercise in ethics?" Global Shakespeare and Social Justice: Towards a Transformative Encounter, ed. Chris Thurman and Sandra Young (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 58-77. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846391/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:32:27 -0400 Stage and screen adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays raise ethical questions – that is, questions about how human beings should act and treat one another. In which contexts might cross-cultural enterprises be naturalising the values associated with Shakespeare to exploit unequal power relations among artists of different backgrounds? Con…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1ebe6aed8b22ad7b320ac06c7689419 Christopher Crosbie deposited Oeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Rethinking Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1845035/ Wed, 10 May 2023 02:23:51 -0400 Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener's son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]

]]> 0 225941d6495dd470adecea37d2ebd847 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Do English Audiences Have the Toughest Time with Shakespeare?," Quarto: The Magazine of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Spring/Summer, 2023 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841710/ Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:30:52 -0400 All the world’s a stage, but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. “English audiences are at a disadvantage because the language has evolved and is more and more distant. They need footnotes, props and staging to understand,” said Alexa Alice Joubin, a Shakespeare schol…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea7de05b6377910b76aa8e8f93f36b5c Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory." GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841269/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:03:53 -0400 When ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]

]]> 0 17033482811dec4185fc8f58e5b745e9 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans as Method: The Sociality of Gender and Shakespeare." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840262/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:36:30 -0400 This special issue on contemporary performance proposes "trans" as method and as a social practice rather than as an immutable identity category that stands in opposition to more established ones such as cis-gender men or cisgender women. We ask new questions about Shakespearean performance: How might the meanings of the plays change if we…[Read more]

]]> 0 10b15445c03cf3df0d93a6dd03e33d45 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Shakespearean Performance through a Trans Lens." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840257/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:28:42 -0400 Gender is a set of interpersonal relationships and social practices that evolve in the presence of other people , in social spaces, and over time. My theory of trans lens corrects the institutionalized cis-sexism that assumes the cis status of even those characters with fluid gender practices. It does so by questioning the purported neutrality of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a8063ecdcac1aad0145a3cefd1da0cc Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "The Tempest as Trans Archive: An Interview with Scholar Mary Ann S. Saunders." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840252/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:20:54 -0400 This interview with Dr. Mary Ann Saunders, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, offers a new interpretation of Julie Taymor's 2010 film The Tempest. Bringing her life experience to bear on cisgender biases in non-trans artists' works, Saunders proposes a new interpretation of Ariel, as performed by Ben Whishaw, as a trans woman who is "both beautiful…[Read more]

]]> 0 dcfb920bdd563e7525c20681494db5b4 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "'The winter of our discontent': An Interview with Playwright Terri Power." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840247/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:13:06 -0400 This interview with Terri Power, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, focuses on the representations of trans masculinity in Power's play Drag King Richard III. For nearly two decades Power has been at the forefront of trans and queer representation in performances of Shakespeare. Weaving a personal story of the 1990s with Shakespeare’s early modern d…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee4dc170b01c993768363e857b9d81bb Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Identities in Drag: An Interview with King Sammy Silver." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840242/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:05:17 -0400 This interview with King Sammy Silver, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin and Terri Power, explores drag as a stage practice. A London-based actor and YouTube personality, he represents a new generation of trans artists. He has worked with Power on multiple Shakespeare productions at Bath Spa University in the UK and elsewhere, and has been…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e38efd9edbedec72ddd34b4510a87de Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Identities in Flux: An Interview with Jess Chanliau." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840237/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 03:57:19 -0400 This interview with non-binary actor Jess Chanliau, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, explores genderplay onstage. A bilingual actor, Chanliau has played Viola, "an intrinsically trans character" in Twelfth Night and a queer Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. They spoke candidly on their experience of either being toke-nized or being cast frequently as…[Read more]

]]> 0 39ac30a23a03d4fdf435def860a240ae Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Transgender Performance of Shakespeare, Special Issue of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839105/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 03:57:21 -0400 Cross-gender roles and performances permeate many of Shakespeare’s plays. This special issue on contemporary transgender performance of Shakespeare was published by the open-access journal dedicated to Shakespeare and appropriation, Borrowers and Lenders, and edited by Alexa Alice Joubin. It contains research articles and interviews of actors. S…[Read more]

]]> 0 aae13ab07f63bfd853ef52123975d25b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Translational Agency in Liang Shiqiu’s Vernacular Sonnets," Shakespeare's Global Sonnets: Translation, Adaptation, Performance, ed. Jane Kingsley-Smith and W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 161-179 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835419/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 04:07:14 -0500 Like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Shakespeare’s Sonnets challenge the binaries between gender and between the vernacular and the literary. Translators take up this challenge and turn it into an opportunity for humanist interpretations of literature, as in the case of Taiwanese essayist Liang Shiqiu’s (1903–1987) translation. Widely known in the Sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 64d8ff450503ea42345312d7781252f1 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin and Elizabeth Rivlin, "Remedial Uses of Shakespeare," Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation, ed. Vanessa I. Corredera, L.Monique Pittman, Geoffrey Way (Routledge, 2023), pp. 222-233 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834917/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 03:58:33 -0500 This chapter argues that cultural appropriation can be an exploitative act but need not be; it all depends on what users do with Shakespeare. Due to the unequal status of the parties engaged in appropriative exchange, some appropriations deploy Shakespeare to protect conventional power structures. Appropriations are rarely negotiated on a level…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bf4b3dfe70a28a9f994bab5c45830a5 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Collaborative Rhizomatic Learning and Global Shakespeares," Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration, ed. Liam E. Semler, Claire Hansen, and Jacqueline Manuel (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 225-238 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834322/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 03:57:26 -0500 Collaborative learning as a pedagogical method effectively reflects the communal character of the performing arts. By creating knowledge about Shakespearean performance collaboratively, students and educators lay claim to the ethics and ownership of that knowledge, an act that is particularly urgent and meaningful in the age of COVID-19 when we…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5573849b9c63c7c8cf1df3dd5fcdaba Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Translingual Shakespeare: An Afterword," Shakespeare in Succession: Translation and Time, ed. Michael Saenger and Sergio Costola (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023), 298-307 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833868/ Sat, 11 Feb 2023 03:57:26 -0500 Literary translations work with, rather than out of, the space between languages. Translations evolve not only across linguistic and cultural borders but also across time. It is notable that Shakespeare’s own play texts feature translational properties that can be amplified in translation. This translingual property makes Shakespeare’s text inh…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e73a5e948c2d6e85e24365507ae5bfb Patrick Hart deposited The Idea of North in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827633/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 02:23:47 -0500 The idea of the North in Western society has a long and distinguished history. Indeed, the only ‘purely ethnographic treatise that survives from antiquity’ is Tacitus’s Germania, his description of the Germanic peoples (Mellor 1993: 14). Tacitus produced his short treatise as a way of forcing Romans to confront the luxurious decadence that he fe…[Read more]

]]> 0 9746c9ed07b3a99340e6271c865e0a08 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Local Habitations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream." Shakespeare Bulletin 40.3 (Fall 2022): pp. 417-437. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827513/ Sat, 24 Dec 2022 03:57:21 -0500 The metatheatricality of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has invited recent directors to tell particular kinds of socially progressive stories. This article uses the notion of “social reparation” to theorize remedial uses of Shakespeare in adaptations that give artists and audiences more moral agency. By imagining more inclusive local habitations and s…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb123b930e262db0f58a120051e9eeb4 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Shakespeare as a Digital Nomad: An Afterword," Digital Shakespeares from the Global South, ed. Amrita Sen (New York: Palgrave, 2022), pp. 93-104. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821644/ Sat, 12 Nov 2022 03:57:41 -0500 The rise of global Shakespeare as an industry and cultural practice—the incorporation of Shakespearean performance in cultural diplomacy and in the cultural marketplace—is aided by digital tools of dissemination and digital forms of artistic expression. Shakespeare has evolved from a cultural nomad in the past centuries—a body of works with no pe…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ead20ada3d78bb4451d551e6555c837 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Interfacing Shakespeare Onscreen," Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface (2023), ed. Clifford Werier and Paul Budra, pp. 332-344 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794460/ Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:56:21 -0400 The screen as an interface immerses audiences in an alternate universe. As a result, that interface seems transparent. Through analyses of performances that call attention to filmic genres, such as Edgar Wright’s parody film, Hot Fuzz (2007), and the Wooster Group’s multimedia production, Hamlet (2007), as well as (meta)theatrical operations on…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c31e7c3d456920b7dd9b8ee1f593c9e Adelina Modesti deposited CFP- AIWAC 2022 Women’s Legacies in Nature Studies, Health and Liberal Arts in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783151/ Fri, 03 Jun 2022 02:24:03 -0400 CFP - AIWAC 2nd edition Rome 2022

]]> 0 890cb2113a2c7d46bf822f779428b22b Ann E Mullaney deposited GB Folengo Samples: Psalm 51, March 21 2022 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775719/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:33:38 -0400 GB Folengo Commentry on Psalm 51, translated into English with brief annotations

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