Booking and details
Reserve Your SpotDates Tue, Dec 29, 2026, 12pm
Venue Stuart and Mimi Rose Rare Book and Manuscript Exhibition Hall
Tickets Free; registration recommended
Duration 30 minutes
How did students at DC’s prestigious Black public Dunbar High School experience Shakespeare in the early 20th century? How did Black women faculty, including notable scholar Anna Julia Cooper, teach and interpret the poetry and plays of Shakespeare?
Join Anna Kutter in the exhibition for a deeper dive into the aspects of DC history and Black feminist thought explored in To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare.
About the exhibition
Curated by Dr. Patricia Akhimie, To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive history of Black women and Shakespeare, exploring their presence in the early modern world and their engagement with Shakespeare both on and off the stage over the course of more than four centuries.
About the speaker
Anna Kutter lives in Washington, DC, where she works as Teacher Education Specialist at the White House Historical Association. Her independent and academic research has focused particularly on the administrative history and democratic theory behind the New Deal-era Federal Theatre Project. In spring 2025, she completed an MA in Public History at American University, for which she developed public history projects in collaboration with the National Park Service and Heurich House Museum, focusing, respectively, on Black women in DC’s go-go music scene and class divides in women’s domestic labor. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Loyola University Chicago and is originally from Dayton, Ohio.
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