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Degrees:
Ph.D., New York Univ.
M.A., New York Univ.
B.A., Trinity College
Dr. David Sterling Brown is a passionate literary critic, pedagogue, editor, public speaker, and Associate Professor of English
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Shakespeare and critical race studies. He is the author of
the “groundbreaking”
Shakespeare’s White Others
(2023) and the forthcoming
Shakespeare Under the Hood
—both with Cambridge University Press and the former available as an audiobook narrated by Brown and published by Tantor Media.
A 2021 ACLS/Mellon Foundation Scholars and Society Fellowship awardee, Dr. Brown is a member of the Curatorial Team for Claudia Rankine’s The Racial Imaginary Institute and he sits on the General Editorial Board for Shakespeare’s Sources, a fifteen-volume Arden Shakespeare/Bloomsbury series that rethinks Shakespeare source study. His numerous, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed and public-facing articles engage critical race studies, critical whiteness studies, performance studies, Black feminism, sound studies, Black male studies, domesticity, sexuality, gender, digital humanities, and sociology.
Beyond serving on the
Shakespeare Survey
and
Shakespeare Bulletin
editorial boards, Dr. Brown is an American Shakespeare Center Board of Trustees member, and he is on the Planning Committee for the 2027 #MeTooAcacdemia Conference. He is also the Development Associate and Scholar-in-Residence for the American Globe Center; and he served as the
dramaturg for Keith Hamilton Cobb's Untitled Othello Project
. Additionally, he is co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of
Humanities
centered on race, intimacy, and sexual violence in early modern literature.
Learn more about his contributions to the humanities at www.DavidSterlingBrown.com.
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Shakespearean drama
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Critical Race Studies
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Critical Whiteness Studies
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African-American literature
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English Renaissance literature
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ENGL-160
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Introduction to Literary Studies
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ENGL-207
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Pop Culture Shakespeare
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ENGL-382
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Shakespeare's Other "Race Plays"
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ENGL-395
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(Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the Color-Line
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FYSM-128
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Shakespeare, Race & Digital Humanities
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Shakespearean drama
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Early modern English literature and culture
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African-American literature, culture and intellectual history
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Domesticity (family and household matters)
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Mental health
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Gender
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Performance
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Sexuality
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Peer-reviewed articles
- “'Blanched with Fear': Reading the Racialized Soundscape in Macbeth," Shakespeare Studies, Vol. 50 (September 2022), 33-43, co-author with Jenner L. Stoever
- “Shake thou to look on't': Shakespearean White Hands," White People in Shakespeare, ed. Arthur L. Little, Jr. (London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
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What
You Will in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring the Digital Arts, Race and Flexible Resistance,” Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation, ed. Erin Sullivan, Gemma Allred and Benjamin Broadribb (London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2022), co-author with Ben Crystal
- (Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the “Sonic Color Line,” Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy, ed. Diana Henderson and Kyle Vitale (London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2022)
- “(Un)Just Acts: Shakespeare and Social Justice in Contemporary Performance,” co-author with Sandra Young, Shakespeare Bulletin 39.4 (Winter 2021)
- “‘Unicorns and Fairy Dust’: Talking Shakespeare, Performance and Social
(In)Justice with Ayanna Thompson and Farah Karim-Cooper,” Shakespeare Bulletin, 39.4 (Winter 2021)
- “I Feel Most White When I am…: Foregrounding the Sharp White Background of Anchuli Felicia King’s Keene,” Shakespeare Bulletin, 39.4 (Winter 2021)
- “Code Black: Whiteness and Unmanliness in Hamlet,” Hamlet: The State of Play, ed. Sonia Massai and Lucy Munro (London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2021), 101-127
- “‘Hood Feminism’: Whiteness and Segregated (Premodern) Scholarly Discourse in the Post-Postracial Era,” Literature Compass (2020): 1-15
- Teaching Guide: “‘Hood Feminism’: Whiteness and Segregated (Premodern) Scholarly Discourse in the Post-Postracial Era,” Literature Compass (2020): 1-3
- “Things of Darkness: ‘The Blueprint of a Methodology’,” The Hare: An Online Journal of Untimely Reviews in Early Modern Theater, Special Issue (Critical Race Studies) 5.1 (September 2020)
- “Remixing the Family: Blackness and Domesticity in Titus Andronicus,” Titus Andronicus: The State of Play, ed. Farah Karim-Cooper (London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2019), 111-133
- “‘Is Black so Base a Hue?’: Black Life Matters in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus,” Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies, ed. Cassander Smith, et al. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 137-155
- “(Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the Color-Line,” Radical Teacher No. 105 (Summer 2016): 69-77
Public Scholarship:
- “To Teach Shakespeare for Survival: Talking with David Sterling Brown and Arthur L. Little, Jr.” Public Books, November 2021, co-authored with Arthur L. Little, Jr.
- “Don’t Hurt Yourself: (Anti)Racism and White Self-Harm,” Los Angeles Review of Books (Anti-racism miniseries), July 2021
- “The ‘Sonic Color Line’: Shakespeare and the Canonization of Sexual Violence Against Black Men,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Sundial, August 2019
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- Shakespeare Association of America Publics Award for Folger Shakespeare Library—Reconstruction.US: Black Shakespeare Course for Middle and High School Students, awarded March 2022
- 2021-2023 ACLS/Mellon Scholars and Society Fellowship ($105,000), and yearlong residency with The Racial Imaginary Institute, founded by Claudia Rankine
- 2021 Shakespeare Association of America Innovative Article Award, Honorable Mention for “Remixing the Family: Blackness and Domesticity in Titus Andronicus”
- Transdisciplinary Areas of Excellence (TAE) Book Manuscript Workshop Award (Citizenship Rights and Cultural Belonging TAE), Binghamton University, awarded Fall 2020
- Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Fellowship, Binghamton University, Spring 2020
- Francis Newman Research Travel Fund Award, Binghamton University ($1,100), awarded Spring 2019 for Summer research
- Presidential Diversity Research Grant, Binghamton University ($6,000), awarded Spring 2019
- Binghamton University Harpur College Faculty Mutual Mentoring Initiative Grant ($1,000), “Diversifying the Shakespearean/Professional Pipeline Through ‘Menteorship’” 2019 initiative, PI, awarded Fall 2018
- Student-Faculty Interaction Grant ($500), University of Arizona, Spring 2018
- Duke University Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement Fellowship, 2016-2018
- Folger Shakespeare Library NEH-Sponsored Grant ($6,000), Teaching Shakespeare to Undergraduates, “Diversifying Shakespeare: Engaging Students Beyond Boundaries,” co-PI, 2016-2017 (Folger Grant summer workshop representative)
- University of Arizona Engagement Grant ($18,900), “Intersections of Diversity and Technology: Shakespeare Beyond Boundaries,” co-PI, 2016-2017 (project contact)
- University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Summer Course Development Stipend Award ($1,000), “(Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the Color-Line,” 2016
- University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Summer Course Development Stipend Award ($3,000), “Diversifying Shakespeare,” co-Awardee, 2016
- Institute for Recruitment of Teachers, Associate, 2008-2009
- President’s Fellow, Trinity College, 2005-2006
- Phi Beta Kappa, Trinity College, 2005
- Ruel Crompton Tuttle Prize, Trinity College, 2005
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