Bailey Sincox

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.