“Nostalgia is not what Shakespeare represents for me; I don’t want to make Shakespeare great again. He doesn’t need that, and neither do we.”

David Sterling Brown
David Sterling Brown—a Shakespeare and premodern critical race studies scholar—is assistant professor of English at Binghamton University. His antiracist scholarship is published or forthcoming in Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Studies, Radical Teacher, Hamlet: The State of Play, and other venues. His forthcoming book project examines whiteness in Shakespearean drama.