To Hear Her Speak: Curator's Talk

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.

Brandi K. Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University, a member of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and a Cofounder of the Arizona Book History Group with Professor Jonathan Hope. Her interests include book history, history of reading, early modern English drama, Premodern Critical Race Studies, and gender studies. She has published articles in journals including Shakespeare Quarterly, Modern Language Quarterly, and Shakespeare. She is currently researching and writing her first monograph entitled Extraordinary Readers: A History of Books Through Early Modern English Drama.

Patricia A. Matthew is Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She co-edits the Oxford University Press book series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures. She is also director of the Race and Regency Lab and editor of Penguin Random House’s deluxe editions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey and the forthcoming Norton Library edition of Mansfield Park. Winner of fellowships from the Folger Institute, the National Humanities Center, and the British Association for Romanticism Studies, she is currently writing a book about abolition, material culture, and gender for Princeton University Press.