Page to Stage in the Digital Age: Deepening Student Engagement with Shakespeare

August 29, 2024

Unlock new ways to engage your students with Shakespeare in our upcoming webinar, hosted with the Shakespeare Association of America.

Date: Wednesday 25th September
Time: 4:30 pm BST

Click HERE to register!

In this dynamic session, leading scholars in Shakespeare studies will share their insights and strategies for bringing Shakespeare to life in today’s digital age. Whether you’re teaching performance or literature, this webinar offers innovative resources and fresh perspectives to enhance your curriculum.

Our chair Christie Carson (Reader Emerita in Shakespeare and Performance in the Department of English at Royal Holloway University of London) will guide the conversation and ensure a lively, informative session featuring Aneta Mancewicz (Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London) Pascale Aebischer (Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter) and Dr. David Sterling Brown (Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, Connecticut).

Each speaker will give a short presentation on their area of expertise, followed by a Q&A session. You’ll be asked to submit your questions when you register for the event.

Why Attend?

Discover Innovative Teaching Tools: Learn about digital resources that bring Shakespeare’s works from page to stage, enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes.
Expand Your Teaching Strategies: Gain new insights from leading experts on how to make Shakespeare relevant and exciting for today’s students.
Connect with Peers: Connect with fellow educators and scholars who share your passion for teaching Shakespeare and ask our panel your burning questions!

Don’t miss this opportunity to enrich your teaching and inspire your students with the timeless works of Shakespeare.

Meet the speakers

Chair and speaker Christie Carson

Christie Carson is Reader Emerita in Shakespeare and Performance in the Department of English at Royal Holloway University of London. She is an early adopter of digital methods and has studied the impact of digital resources for teaching. She has developed a hybrid approach to criticism which employs digital resources to combine the detail and specificity of an English close reading of performance with the desire to situate that close study politically, historically and socially, in line with the methods of theatre history research. She is the co-editor of four collections of essays for Cambridge University Press: Shakespeare’s Globe: A Theatrical Experiment with Farah Karim-Cooper (2008), Shakespeare in Stages: New Theatre Histories with Christine Dymkowski (2010), Shakespeare Beyond English with Susan Bennett (2013), and Shakespeare and the Digital World with Peter Kirwan (2014). Her most recent publication, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The Stratford Festival (2024), provides a critical history of this Canadian institution as part of the Arden Shakespeare Series.

Speaker Aneta Mancewicz

Aneta Mancewicz is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. She works on digital technologies, staging Shakespeare, and European theatre. Her publications include: Extended Reality Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press 2024), Hamlet after Deconstruction (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), and Intermedial Shakespeares on European Stages (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).

Speaker Pascale Aebischer

Pascale Aebischer is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter. She has written extensively on the performance of the wider early modern dramatic canon, including in the collection Performing Early Modern Drama Today (co-edited with Kathryn Prince, CUP, 2012) and her books Screening Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare (CUP, 2013), and Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance (CUP, 2020). Her interest in performance technologies led her to working with Susanne Greenhalgh and Laurie Osborne to produce a collection on Shakespeare and the ‘Live’ Theatre Broadcast Experience (Bloomsbury, 2018) which brought together an international team of researchers to think through how theatre broadcasting has transformed how we experience Shakespeare in many parts of the world. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she used her understanding of digital performances to study and support the work of Oxford’s Creation Theatre. She has written about this research in Viral Shakespeare: Performance in the Time of Pandemic (CUP 2021), Gemma Allred et al.’s Lockdown Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2021) and in Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts: the pandemic and beyond (co-edited with Rachael Nicholas, MUP, 2024).

Speaker David Sterling Brown

A lifelong Connecticut resident and an Associate Professor of English with tenure at his undergraduate alma mater, Trinity College (Hartford, CT), Dr. David Sterling Brown is an award-winning Shakespeare and critical race studies scholar whose research, teaching and public speaking interests include African-American literature, dramatic literature, mental health, gender, performance, sexuality and the family. His book, Shakespeare’s White Others, was published by Cambridge University Press and was endorsed officially by Dr. Patricia Akhimie (Folger Institute, Director), Dr. Bernadette Andrea (UC Santa Barbara, professor), Keith Hamilton Cobb (actor, playwright), Simon Godwin (Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company), Claudia Rankine (poet, essayist, playwright, editor, NYU professor), Dr. Melissa E. Sanchez (UPenn, professor), Dr. Emma Smith (University of Oxford, professor) and Dr. Tukufu Zuberi (UPenn, professor). Shakespeare’s White Others is also available as an audiobook, narrated by the author. Brown is creator of the 3D/virtual-reality David Sterling Brown Gallery and he is curator of the gallery’s first exhibition “Visualizing Race Virtually,” a visual complement to his Shakespeare’s White Others.