Kathryn Vomero Santos is a scholar of Shakespeare who studies the intersections of performance with the politics of language, empire, and racial formation in the early modern period and in our contemporary moment. As a co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, she is invested in the public humanities and forms of community-engaged scholarship and teaching that sustain the arts, cultures, and languages of the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands.
Dr. Santos is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Global Latinx Studies at Trinity University, where she co-directed the Humanities Collective for four years.
She is the author of Shakespeare in Tongues and the co-editor of several books, including The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation, and Arthur Golding’s A Moral Fabletalk and Other Renaissance Fable Translations. She is currently working on a new book about the cultural history of Sycorax and her transmedial afterlives.
Santos is a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and a member of the Board of Directors for Humanities Texas. She also serves on the editorial boards of ACMRS Press and Shakespeare Bulletin. She has worked as an academic advisor for The Public Theater in New York City and is the secretary of the Founding Board of Directors for the Friends of International Friendship Park.
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