The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time. Contributions are solicited from scholars across the field and from both hemispheres of the globe who represent diverse career stages and linguistic traditions. Both new and ongoing trends are examined in comparative contexts, and emerging voices in different cultural contexts are featured alongside established scholarship. Each volume features a collection of articles that focus on a theme curated by a specialist Guest Editor, along with coverage of the current state of the field in other aspects. An essential reference tool for scholars of early modern literature and culture, this annual publication captures, from year to year, current and developing thought in global Shakespeare scholarship and performance practice worldwide.

Alexa Alice Joubin is the General Editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. She is Professor of English, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she serves as founding Co-director of the Digital Humanities Institute.

Natalia Khomenko teaches English Literature at York University (Toronto). Her ongoing research project, which has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada and York University, focuses on the reception, interpretation, and adaptation of Shakespearean drama in early Soviet Russia. Her work has appeared in several edited collections and journals, including Early Theatre, Borrowers and Lenders, Multicultural Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare, and Shakespeare Quarterly. Most recently, Natalia has co-edited a special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin on A Midsummer Night’s Dream in global performance, and is currently serving as a co-editor for The Shakespearean International Yearbook.

Katherine Schaap Williams is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her scholarly work has appeared in ELH, English Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, Early Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin, the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and several edited collections. She edited Chapman, Jonson, and Marston’s 1605 play Eastward Ho for The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama (2020), and her monograph, Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater (Cornell, 2021), was awarded an Honorable Mention for the MRDS Bevington Award for the best new book in early drama studies and an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book Award from ATHE.