The Point:Shakespeare’s Radical Stage

Christine Hamel

Christine Hamel is an actor, voice coach, director, and scholar whose work focuses on the politics of voice, emotion, and embodiment. She is currently an Associate Professor of Voice and Acting at Boston University’s School of Theatre, where she founded the Femina Shakes initiative, exploring Shakespeare’s canon through the lens of power and the complex intersections of gender, sex, race, class, and ability present in those works. Christine is also co-author – with philosopher Ann J. Cahill – of the book Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice, and the Voice which explores the ethical and social meanings of the human voice.

Erika Boeckeler

Erika Boeckeler is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University. Her work spans multiple genres and disciplines: Shakespeare, early modern poetry, History of the Book, early modern art history, early Slavic print culture. She is the author of Playful Letters: A Study in Early Modern Alphabetics and has published on printers’ ornaments in Shakespeare’s plays, sixteenth century widow printers, the poetic typography of the first printed Hamlet, painted writing in German portraiture, on the first architectural alphabet, on teaching in the archives, among other topics.

Her current book project blends her expertise in book history and comparative methodologies with premodern critical race theory. The aim is to reveal how discourses of race (e.g. black inke, faire paper). are embedded in the foundations of European printing and its literary output. Dr. Boeckeler is also the editor of Shakespeare’s poem, “A Louers Complaint,” at Internet Shakespeare Editions, and serves on the editorial board of English Literary Renaissance. Her research has received numerous national and international awards.

Adele Lee

Adele Lee holds a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast and is Associate Professor in Early Modern Literature at Emerson College. She is author of The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters (2017), editor of Shakespeare and Accentism (2020) and co-author (with Sarah Olive et.al.) of Shakespeare in East Asian Education (2021). She has published articles in journals such as Shakespeare Bulletin, Early Modern Literary Studies, Quidditas, Contemporary Women’s Writing, and Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, and contributed to several books,  including Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia and Cyberspace (2009), Shakespeare Beyond English: A Global Experiment (2013), Richard III: A Critical Reader (2013). Forthcoming work includes contributions to The Cambridge Companion to  Shakespeare and Sound and Unsettled Shakespeares: The Work of Adaptation in an Unstable World, and a special volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook on “Mixed Race Shakespeares” for which she was Guest Editor. Prior to joining Emerson College, Lee was Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Greenwich, London.