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McKenzie Knight

is an undergraduate researcher at the University of Alabama and a research assistant with the Alabama Shakespeare Project. Her work explores the intersections of race, performance, and cultural memory, with a particular focus on how early modern texts are interpreted through contemporary lenses. McKenzie's research often engages questions of visual representation and systemic inequality, both on stage and beyond.
Color of Character: Racial Cues in the Visual Othello
A porcelain sculpture showing, from left to right, a standing black man in purple and gold clothes gesticulating, a seated white woman with a white dress leaning against a seated white man with gray hair and red clothes. Both of them are watching the standing man with attention.
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Color of Character: Racial Cues in the Visual Othello

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A participant in the undergraduate seminar, Whose Sovereignty?, explores depictions of Othello in the Folger collection