Writing

Read (public) essays.

  • "What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Racism," The Conversation, May 3, 2024

  • "My Favorite Books to Color Your Thinking About Race" (Shepherd.com)

  • "Discomfort is the point: Why 'safe spaces' do a disservice to students," Liberal Education, March 2024

  • “From the Author: Visualizing Race Virtually with Dr. David Sterling Brown,” Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Core Blog

  • "On Process: Tenure and Beyond," Institute for Recruitment of Teachers Newsletter, January 2024

  • "David Sterling Brown" by Claudia Rankine, a conversation about Shakespeare's White Others (Full Stop Magazine)

  • The Page 99 Test, "Shakespeare's White Others

  • "To See, or Not to See?: Shakespeare, Whiteness, and the 'Intraracial Color-Line'," Cambridge University Press

  • "Visualizing Race Virtually: Exploring the art of Shakespeare," Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare and Beyond

  • "Exploring a New Virtual Art Gallery with Associate Prof. David Sterling Brown ’06," interviewed by Andrew J. Concatelli (author), Trinity College

  • "Shakespeare’s White Others," Globe Theatre (London) blog post

  • "Untucked: White Supremacy Along the Color-Lines," published by The Racial Imaginary Institute

  • "A Morbid Curiosity?," Program note for Jude Christian's 2023 "Titus" production, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London (Shakespeare's Globe)

  • “Don’t Hurt Yourself”: (Anti)Racism and White Self-Harm, Los Angeles Review of Books

  • Posthumously Advised: David’s “Warm Best”, David Bevington Remembered, ed. Eric Rasmussen and Milla Cozart Riggio (Washington, D.C.: BookArts, 2020)

  • To Teach Shakespeare for Survival: Talking with David Sterling Brown and Arthur L. Little, Jr., Public Books

  • The “Sonic Color Line”: Shakespeare and the Canonization of Sexual Violence Against Black Men, The Sundial

  • “About the Play,” Program note for Anchuli Felicia King’s "Keene," Red Bull Theater

  • "Same Place, Different Perspective," The Trinity Reporter

  • It’s Time to End Publishing Gatekeeping!, The Sundial (co-authored letter by the Race Before Race Executive Board)