Speakers
Sharon O'Dair is Professor of English and the Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies. She is the author of Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars. (University of Michigan Press, 2000).
Currently, she is working on two books, one on the profession of literary study—Elitist Equality: Class Paradoxes in the Profession of English—and the second on Shakespeare and film—The Eco-Bard: The Greening of Shakespeare in Contemporary Film.
Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Chair of the English Department at McGill University. He is co-director of the Shakespeare and Performance Research Team and director of the Making Publics project.
Among his publications are Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and The Making of Theatrical Value and The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare’s England (with Anthony Dawson). He is an editor of the new Oxford Works of Thomas Middleton. Work-in-progress include editions of Richard II (for Oxford) and The Tempest (for Broadview Press), and a book-length study, Shakespeare and the Social Thing: Making Publics in the Renaissance Theatre.
