Elisa Oh

Elisa Oh is an Associate Professor of English at Howard University, and she specializes in 16th– and 17th-century English literature with an emphasis on drama. Her research interests aim to broaden our knowledge of race-making and gender, then and now. Looking at Shakespeare, Lady Mary Wroth, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and other Jacobean dramatists, she studies women’s intentional silences, fictional witch dances, court masques’ representation of colonial politics, and travel narratives’ accounts of early encounters with African and Indigenous American communities. 

Her work has appeared in English Literary Renaissance; Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal; Explorations in Renaissance Culture; Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, edited by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea; The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, edited by Patricia Akhimie; and Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in Higher Education: Social Justice and Institutional Contexts, edited by Marissa Greenberg and Elizabeth Williamson. Her book project is entitled Choreographies of Race and Gender: Dance, Ritual, and Travel in Early Modern English Literature.