Curatorial Publication
Special Exhibitions
Shakespeare Unbound. Campuswide Special Exhibit. UMass Amherst, 2023-2024.
With selections from the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Phillis Wheatley, and others are joined in conversation with William Shakespeare to explore what happens when Shakespeare appears in fragments or as momentary flashes in history. At the Kinney Center, rotating exhibits range in topic from “Noble Fragments“ to “Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Organizer & Co-Curator with: Kirstin Kay and Joe Black.
Catalogue ❦ https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/shakespeare-unbound ❦ Massachusetts Daily Collegian story here
Water-Worlds: Ripple Effects or Sea Change? Kinney Center. Co-Curated with Evan MacCarthy (Dept. of Music and Dance). March 2024 – June 2024. Catalogue ❦ https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/shakespeare-unbound/water-worlds? ❦ Related Programming
Apocalypse: Science and Myth. Kinney Center Artist in Residence Exhibit with Suzette Martin. April – September 2023. Catalogue ❦ https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/apocalypse ❦ Inside UMass story here ❦ Interview here
Foraged: Kitchen Garden Herbaria. Kinney Center Artist in Residence Exhibit with Madge Evers. November 2022 – March 2023. Catalogue ❦ https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/foraged
❦ Inside UMass story here
Mapping Terroir: Myth and Memory. Kinney Center Artist in Residence Exhibit with Andrea Calouri. June – September 2022. Catalogue ❦ https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/mapping-terroir ❦ Inside UMass story here ❦ Daily Hampshire Gazette story here
‘So Long Lives This’: A Celebration of Shakespeare’s Life and Works, 1616-2016 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2016. ❦ Exhibit ❦ Audio Tour
2016 marks four hundred years since the death of William Shakespeare. To honor this milestone, the Fisher Library opens the year with an exhibition that explores how Shakespeare's works shaped ideas of the world beyond England, how his plays imagined self and other through language, geography and mythology and how, in turn, the production of atlases, dictionaries, and histories influenced Shakespeare's world-making art. Co-Curators Scott Schofield, Alan Galey, and Peter Blayney
Othello, Then and Now. Kinney Center Special Exhibit in conjunction with the American Moor residency. Kinney Center, UMass Amherst. Fall 2018.
Island Fictions. W.E.B. Du Bois Library Special Collections & Mount Holyoke College Special Collections. Teaching Exhibition, UMass Amherst. October 2018.
Shakespeare in Performance: Twelfth Night in the Archives. Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival, Canada. May 2017.
The Theater of the Book. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. May 2017.
Renaissance Keywords. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Guest Speaker: David Fernández. February 2017.
Gateways to the Past: Touring Renaissance Lexical Culture. Featuring a collection of dictionaries dating from the late medieval period through Johnson’s 1755 English Dictionary. University of Michigan, December 2015.
Bodies on the Page: Exploring Ideas of Sex and Gender in the Renaissance. A special exhibit and teaching symposium held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Guest Speaker: Dr. Scott Schofield. March 2011.