Patricia Akhimie, "The Goodness of the Night: Editing Othello"
Department: English
Date and Time: November 9, 2021 | 12:30 PM-1:30 PMEvent Location: Zoom
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Through a close look at versions of and emendations to Othello, this talk explores the role of textual editing in the production and perpetuation of racial stereotypes.
Patricia Akhimie is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she teaches Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and early modern women’s travel writing. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World (Routledge 2018). She is co-editor, with Bernadette Andrea of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World (University of Nebraska Press 2019). She is currently at work on a new edition of Othello and a monograph about gender, race, and early modern travel. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Ford Foundation, and the John Carter Brown Library.