Shakespeare's Othello: Storytelling and Performance

Stephen Jay Greenblatt, born November 7, 1943, in Boston, serves as the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, where he has revolutionized literary criticism through founding New Historicism. After completing his education at Yale and Cambridge, he established himself as one of the preeminent Shakespeare scholars and Renaissance literature experts of our time. His influential works include fourteen books spanning Shakespeare studies, cultural history, and literary theory, with notable titles like "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," which won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare." As General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare, he has shaped literary education worldwide. His academic leadership extends to founding the journal Representations and developing innovative approaches to cultural criticism. His exceptional contributions have earned him prestigious honors including the 2016 Holberg Prize, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Philosophical Society, and the British Academy. Beyond his scholarly work, he has held visiting professorships at universities across the globe, from Beijing to Bologna, while maintaining his position as a leading voice in humanities education and cultural analysis.

Dr. Bailey Sincox currently serves as the Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University, where she studies early modern English drama and performance. After completing her BA from Duke University and master's degrees from both Oxford and Harvard, she earned her PhD from Harvard University. Her research spans Shakespeare and his contemporaries, gender studies, reception and adaptation studies, and book history. She is currently completing her first book project, "Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage," while teaching courses such as "Theater in Early Modern London: The Purpose of Playing" at Princeton. Her scholarly work appears in prestigious journals including Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Survey, and The Review of English Studies, while her public-facing writing features in The Drift, Harvard Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Beyond her research, she contributes to making Shakespeare accessible through projects like the XSeries "Shakespeare's Outsiders" and is preparing a new introduction to "Much Ado About Nothing" for Oxford World's Classics.