Research — Vanessa I. Corredera, Ph.D.

Research

My scholarship examines how Shakespeare lives on today, focusing on the ideological uses of Shakespeare and his cultural authority, most especially in the American racial and gendered imaginary. I thus explore the intersecting constructions of race and gender in Shakespeare’s dramas as well as in Shakespearean adaptations, appropriations, performances, pop culture references.

Monographs & Edited Collections

Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America (2022)

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Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation (2023)

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Journal Articles

With Louise Geddes, “‘A Fair House on Another Man’s Ground: Public Shakespeare at Seneca Village.” Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 41, no. 4, 2023, pp. 579-600.

“When the master’s tools fail: Racial euphemism in Shakespeare appropriation, or, the activist value of Premodern Critical Race Studies.” Literature Compass, vol. 20, no. 7-9, 2023, pp. 1-13.

“Decomissioning the Bard: Chloe Gong’s These Violent Delights as Anticolonial Edutainment.” Comparative Drama, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 59-56.

“Lessons for Whiteness: Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moor.” Shakespeare, vol. 17, no. 1, 2021, pp. 54-57.

“Get Out and the Remediation of Othello’s Sunken Place: Beholding White Supremacy’s Coagula.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, vol. 13, no. 1, 2020.

“‘How Dey Goin’ to Kill Othello'?!’: Key & Peele and Shakespearean Universality.” Journal of American Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 2020, pp. 27-35.

“Far More Black than Black: Stereotypes, Black Masculinity, and Americanization in Tim Blake Nelson’s O.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 3, 2017.

“‘Not a Moor exactly’: Shakespeare, Serial, and Modern Constructions of Race.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 1, 2016, pp. 30-50.

“Faces and Figures of Fortune: Astrological Physiognomy in Tamburlaine Part 1.” Early Modern Literary Studies, 2015.

Chapters in Edited Collections

“‘happy nights to happy days’: Tragedy, Joy, and the Queer Racialized Body in Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet.” Shakespeare/Play, edited by Emma Whipday, Bloomsbury, 2024.

“‘…a thing impossible I should love thee’: Shakespearean Performance as White Property.” The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation, edited by Louise Geddes, Kathryn Vomero Santos, and Geoffrey Way, forthcoming.

“Shakespeare, Race, and Appropriation.” The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, edited by Patricia Akhimie, Oxford UP, 2024, pp. 498-513.

“Resources,” The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation, edited by Diana E. Henderson and Stephen O’Neil, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 351-67.

With L. Monique Pittman, Kristin N. Denslow, and Karl Bailey. “‘Were I Human’: Beingness and the Postcolonial Object in Westworld’s Appropriation of The Tempest.” Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation, edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes, Edinburgh UP, 2022, pp.

“The Moor Makes a Cameo: Serial, Shakespeare, and the White Racial Frame.” The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, edited by Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson, 2019, pp.

“Complex Complexions: The Facial Signification of the Black Other in Lust’s Dominion.” Shakespeare and the Power of the Face, edited by James A. Knapp, Ashgate, 2015, pp. 93-114.