Mira Assaf Kafantaris

is an Assistant Professor of English at Butler University. She specializes in Premodern Critical Race Studies, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Culture. She is completing her first manuscript, titled Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens, and Racial Formations in the Early Modern Period. Her public-facing work has appeared in The Sundial, The Millions, Overland Journal, The Rambling, The Conversation, Medium-Equity, and The Platform. She is co-editing, with Sonja Drimmer and Treva B. Lindsey, a special issue of the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s journal, The Scholar and Feminist Online, titled "Race-ing Queens." She was the 2021-22 Folger Shakespeare Library and Society for the Study of Early Women and Gender Margaret Hannay Fellow.