Donna Denizé

Of Haitian American descent, Donna Denizé holds a B.A. from Stonehill College and an M.A in Renaissance drama from Howard University, where she was also a student of poet Robert Hayden, while he served as Consultant to the Library of Congress. She has contributed to scholarly books and journals, and she is the author of a chapbook, The Lover’s Voice (1997) and a book, Broken Like Job (2005). Donna is also a contributor to The Folger Guides to Teaching Shakespeare series.She currently Chairs the English Department at St. Albans School for boys, where she teaches Freshman English; a junior/senior elective in Shakespeare, and Crossroads in American Identity, a course she designed years ago and which affords her the opportunity to do what she most enjoys—exploring not only the cultural and inter-textual crossroads of literary works but also their points of human unity.