the werk

"Baldwin, Shakespeare, Whiteness, and (Anti)Fandom: 'What's love got to do with it?'"

What You Will in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring the Digital Arts, Race and Flexible Resistance

“Hood Feminism”: Whiteness and Segregated (Premodern) Scholarly Discrouse in the Post-Postracial Era

“Is Black so Base a Hue?”: Black Life Matters in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare's White Others (Cambridge UP, 2023) eBook & hardcover; audiobook & Audio CD narrated by author

(Un)Just Acts: Shakespeare and Social Justice in Contemporary Performance

Teaching Guide: “Hood Feminism”: Whiteness and Segregated (Premodern) Scholarly Discrouse in the Post-Postracial Era

Remixing the Family: Blackness and Domesticity in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

"Shake thou to look on’t": Shakespearean White Hands

I Feel Most White When I am…: Foregrounding the "Sharp White Background" of Anchuli Felicia King’s "Keene"

(Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the “Sonic Color Line”

"Blanched with Fear": Reading the Racialized Soundscape in Macbeth

“Unicorns and Fairy Dust": Talking Shakespeare, Performance and Social (In)Justice with Ayanna Thompson and Farah Karim-Cooper

Things of Darkness: “The Blueprint of a Methodology”

Seeking the (In)Visible: Whiteness and Shakespeare Studies

(Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the Color-Line

Code Black: Whiteness and Unmanliness in Hamlet

Shakespeare Studies Forum, Vol. 50 (Fall 2022)

Senior Editor, with Patricia Akhimie & Arthur L. Little, Jr.

Shakespeare Bulletin, “Shakespeare & Social Justice in Contemporary Performance” 39.4, with a formal dedication to my paternal grandmother the late “Mrs. Christine Wright and to all women who have been unjustly impacted by the dual assault of systemic racism and sexism.”

Co-Editor with Sandra Young, Winter 2021

The book's unexpected final words, documenting Brown's own racial profiling experience, anticipate the depths of this brilliantly bold Shakespearean discourse that seamlessly blends genres while reimagining the scholarly monograph mode. -Claudia Rankine, New York University & The Racial Imaginary Institute ✊🏿

The book's unexpected final words, documenting Brown's own racial profiling experience, anticipate the depths of this brilliantly bold Shakespearean discourse that seamlessly blends genres while reimagining the scholarly monograph mode. -Claudia Rankine, New York University & The Racial Imaginary Institute ✊🏿