Dr. Patricia Akhimie

Dr. Patricia Akhimie is Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Director of the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network, and Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World, editor of the Arden Othello (4th series), To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare, and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, and co-editor with Bernadette Andrea of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World.