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LOCATION:Braamfontein Campus East Seminar Room, Humanities Graduate Centre, Southwest Engineering Building
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for the Study of the United States and the English Department at Wits University will host a talk by Professor Ayanna Thompson.In this lecture Thompson will discuss the intersection between the history of Shakespearean performance in the US and the birth of blackface minstrelsy.
<br />She is the 2018-19 president of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her books include Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach (2016); Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (2011); Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (2010); Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (2008); and Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance (2006).
<br />Professor Ayanna Thompson is Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval &amp; Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong>The African Centre for the Study of the United States and the English Department at Wits University will host a talk by Professor Ayanna Thompson.</strong><p>In this lecture Thompson will discuss the intersection between the history of Shakespearean performance in the US and the birth of blackface minstrelsy.</p>
<br /><p>She is the 2018-19 president of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her books include <em>Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach</em> (2016); <em>Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America</em> (2011); <em>Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance</em> (2010); <em>Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage</em> (2008); and <em>Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance</em> (2006).</p>
<br /><p>Professor Ayanna Thompson is Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval &amp; Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University.</p>
SUMMARY:Shakespeare and blackface
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