Patricia Akhimie
Rutgers University-Newark
Patricia Akhimie is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She is currently working on a book entitled Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World and an edited volume tentatively titled Traveling/Travailing Women: Early Modern England and the Wider World, co-edited with Bernadette Andrea. Her other publications include 鈥淪trange Episodes: Race in Stage History,鈥� Shakespeare Bulletin (Fall, 2009), 鈥淭ravel, Drama, and Domesticity: Staging Housewifery in Fletcher and Massinger鈥檚 The Sea Voyage,鈥� Studies in Travel Writing (June, 2009), 鈥溾�楤ruised with Adversity鈥�: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors鈥� in the forthcoming volume The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and “Galleries and Soft Power: The Gallery in The Winter’s Tale” in the forthcoming volume Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power: The Making of Peace. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University.