Adapting, Translating, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands

FAIN: RZ-286906-22

Texas A&M University-San Antonio (San Antonio, TX 78224-3134)
Katherine A Gillen (Project Director: November 2021 to present)

A conference on adaptations of Shakespearian plays by playwrights in the US/Mexico borderlands. (12 months)

We plan to host a conference in San Antonio, TX, in May 2024, which will be co-sponsored by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), and subsequently to edit a special issue of Borrowers and Lenders composed of essays generated by the conference called Shakespeare and Borderlands Cultura. The project foregrounds marginal rewritings of a canonical author while also representing new cultural praxis in decolonizing the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands, a contested area encompassing Northern Mexico and parts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.