Lauren Belfer
Author, City of Light, A Fierce Radiance, After the Fire, and Ashton Hall
Lauren Belfer grew up in Buffalo, New York. Her debut novel, City of Light, was a New York Times bestseller, as well as a New York Times Notable Book, a Library Journal Best Book, and a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Her second novel, A Fierce Radiance, was named a Washington Post Best Novel, an NPR Best Mystery, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. And After the Fire, her third novel, received the National Jewish Book Award. Her latest novel, Ashton Hall, appeared in the summer of 2022, from the Ballantine imprint of Random House. Lauren lives in New York City.
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Scott Manning Stevens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Syracuse University
Scott Manning Stevens is a citizen of the Akwesasne Mohawk nation and an associate professor and the director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program at Syracuse University. His primary research lies in the critical analysis of ethnographic collecting and the significance of material culture collections within a US settler context.
Joyce Green MacDonald, Ph.D.
Professor of English
University of Kentucky
Joyce Green MacDonald is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of two books—Women and Race in Early Modern Texts (2002), and Shakespearean Adaptation, Race, and Memory in the New World (2020)—and the editor of Race, Ethnicity and Power in the Renaissance (1996). She has published several articles on race in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and on women’s writing in the period, as well as on Shakespearean adaptation and performance. A former trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America, she is currently editing Aphra Behn’s Abdelazer for the University of Toronto Press and Antony and Cleopatra for Cambridge Shakespeare Editions.
Kathryn Vomero Santos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Trinity University
Kathryn Vomero Santos is Assistant Professor of English and co-director of the Humanities Collective at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Her cross-historical research explores the intersections of performance with the politics of language, empire, and racial formation in the early modern period and in our contemporary moment. She is currently completing a book about race, multilingualism, and assimilation entitled Shakespeare in Tongues. Her most recent articles—“¿Shakespeare para todos?” (Shakespeare Quarterly, 2022) and “Seeing Shakespeare: Narco Narratives and Neocolonial Appropriations of Macbeth in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands” (Literature Compass, 2022)—examine the role that Shakespeare’s works have played in conversations about the ongoing coloniality of the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands region. With Katherine Gillen and Adrianna M. Santos, she co-founded the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, and together, they are editing The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera for ACMRS Press. Santos is also co-editing a collection of essays entitled Shakespeare at the Intersection of Performance and Appropriation with Louise Geddes and Geoffrey Way. She serves as the Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin and the Early Modern Section Editor for The Sundial.
"Gilding The Guilt": Buffalo Folger Shakespeare Weekend Workshop 2023 