Christie Carson
Session Chair
Christie Carson is Reader Emerita in Shakespeare and Performance in the Department of English at Royal Holloway University of London. She is an early adopter of digital methods and has studied the impact of digital resources for teaching. She has developed a hybrid approach to criticism which employs digital resources to combine the detail and specificity of an English close reading of performance with the desire to situate that close study politically, historically and socially, in line with the methods of theatre history research.
She is the co-editor of four collections of essays for Cambridge University Press: Shakespeare’s Globe: A Theatrical Experiment with Farah Karim-Cooper (2008), Shakespeare in Stages: New Theatre Histories with Christine Dymkowski (2010), Shakespeare Beyond English with Susan Bennett (2013), and Shakespeare and the Digital World with Peter Kirwan (2014). Her most recent publication, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The Stratford Festival (2024), provides a critical history of this Canadian institution as part of the Arden Shakespeare Series.
Aneta Mancewicz
Aneta Mancewicz is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. She works on digital technologies, staging Shakespeare, and European theatre.
Her publications include: Extended Reality Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press 2024), Hamlet after Deconstruction (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), and Intermedial Shakespeares on European Stages (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).
Pascale Aebischer
Pascale Aebischer is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter. She has written extensively on the performance of the wider early modern dramatic canon, including in the collection Performing Early Modern Drama Today (co-edited with Kathryn Prince, CUP, 2012) and her books Screening Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare (CUP, 2013), and Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance (CUP, 2020).
Her interest in performance technologies led her to working with Susanne Greenhalgh and Laurie Osborne to produce a collection on Shakespeare and the ‘Live’ Theatre Broadcast Experience (Bloomsbury, 2018) which brought together an international team of researchers to think through how theatre broadcasting has transformed how we experience Shakespeare in many parts of the world.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she used her understanding of digital performances to study and support the work of Oxford’s Creation Theatre. She has written about this research in Viral Shakespeare: Performance in the Time of Pandemic (CUP 2021), Gemma Allred et al.’s Lockdown Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2021) and in Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts: the pandemic and beyond (co-edited with Rachael Nicholas, MUP, 2024).
Dr. David Sterling Brown
Dr. David Sterling Brown is an award-winning, tenured Associate Professor of English at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). He is the author of Shakespeare’s White Others (Cambridge University Press 2023), which was acquired by Tantor Media and recorded as an audiobook, with Brown as narrator. A member of the Race Before Race Executive Board, Brown also sits on the editorial board for Shakespeare Survey and Shakespeare Bulletin; and he is a member of the American Shakespeare Center’s Board of Trustees. He has published numerous peer-reviewed and public-facing essays and delivered myriad talks.
Brown is also an editor and public speaker. In 2021, he received a prestigious Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship that facilitated his residency with Claudia Rankine’s The Racial Imaginary Institute, of which he is a full-time Curatorial Team member. The Fellowship also facilitated the development of his professional website (www.DavidSterlingBrown.com) and his virtual-reality art gallery and exhibition—“Visualizing Race Virtually”—that complements Shakespeare’s White Others. His second book, Hood Pedagogy, will also be published by Cambridge University Press.