Dr. Patricia Akhimie (Folger Shakespeare Library) - 9th February

The Race in the Early Modern’s inaugural seminar will be delivered by Dr. Patricia Akhimie. Dr. Akhimie is the Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Associate Professor at Rutgers University-Newark. She will speak about an upcoming exhibition that she has curated at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Date and Time: Monday 9th February, 17:00 (GMT)/12:00 (EST)

Sign up here: https://buytickets.at/centreforearlymodernstudies/2022021

Speaker Bio

Dr. Patricia Akhimie is Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She also serves as Director of the RaceB4Race Mentoring Network and is an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.  She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, and co-editor of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. Dr. Akhimie is currently working on a new edition of Othello for the Arden Shakespeare, fourth series, and a monograph about race, gender, and editing early modern texts.  Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library and the Ford Foundation.

Image Citation: After Northcote, James. Ira Aldridge. Oil on Canvas. 1826. Wikicommons.