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Professor of English Maya Mathur has published an article titled “Fantasies of Assimilation: Multicultural Casting and Migrant Narratives in Tim Supple’s and Adam Smethurst’s Adaptations of Twelfth Night.” The article was included in The Sad and Merry Madness of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night edited by Louise Roszak and Nora Galland, University of Nanterre Press, 2026.
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Professor of English Maya Mathur has published an article in Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation titled “Remaking Othello in India: Race, Caste, and Colorism in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara.”The article examines how Indian director, Vishal Bhardwaj, draws on Indian cinematic traditions to reshape the kinship networks and central conflicts in William Shakespeare’s […]
Professor of English Maya Mathur presented the paper, “Eat the Rich: Race, Class, and Caste in Bornila Chatterjee’s The Hungry,” at the World Shakespeare Congress, which was held virtually from July 19-24, 2021. Her paper examined the connection between racial difference in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and class and caste tension in Bornila Chatterjee’s The […]
Professor of English Maya Mathur co-led the workshop, “Intersectionality and Inclusion in the Early Modern Classroom,” with Elisa Oh of Howard University. The workshop took place during the annual conference of the Shakespeare Association of America, which was held virtually from 30 March to 4 April 2021. The workshop drew on Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of […]
