is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, where she takes an inclusive and student-centered approach to her courses in English Renaissance Literature, Shakespearean adaptation, and the history of the body. Co-founder and co-general editor of the award-winning, multimedia, peer-reviewed, "born digital" scholarly periodical Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, she is currently completing two monographs, "Shakespeare and Adaptation," for which she holds the Shakespeare Association of America Folger Fellowship for 2020-2021, and "Shakespeare and the Art of the Book." Additional projects include this year's Georgia-Humanities-funded "Shakespeare and Disability Poetics," short articles about pandemic pedagogy, and teaching modules about Milton and Spenser in postcolonial and diasporic contexts.
The story of Pericles continues to be retold by twenty-first century novelists, among them Mark Haddon, in The Porpoise (2019), and Ali Smith, in Spring (2019), the penultimate book in her “Seasonal Quartet.”
A guest post by Sujata Iyengar Typography—the design of individual printed letter-shapes—makes printed books easier to read, and it can also shape our understanding and experience of the text and the content that an individual book contains. At first, early…
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