'Shakespeare on the Border' with Ruben Espinosa

ACMRS was established in 1981 by the Arizona Board of Regents as a state-wide research unit.Our mission is to enable and promote the most expansive, creative, and daring scholarship in medieval and renaissance studies. We do this not only by fostering a vibrant intellectual community for the faculty at our three universities, but also by publishing forward-looking, vanguard research through our in-house press. ACMRS promotes work that is historically grounded and theoretically expansive, with the aim of advancing dialogues that reach into the present moment and point us to different, more inclusive, futures. Moreover, we develop projects that explore complex topics in an accessible manner so as to reach as wide an audience as possible. In keeping with the ASU charter, we believe that our success in realizing this vision for pre-modern scholarship should be judged not by whom we exclude, but whom we include, and how they succeed.

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Explore how perceptions of legitimacy for US Latinxs often influence the barriers and bridges that define their encounters with Shakespeare.

Lattie F. Coor Hall Room 4403

<p>This talk explores how perceptions of legitimacy for U.S. Latinxs often influence the barriers and bridges that define their encounters with Shakespeare. Borderland epistemologies afford unique understandings of Shakespeare, and such perspectives allow us to consider how Shakespeare offers—despite ostensible feelings to the contrary—a significant literary legacy for Latinxs. Despite this promise, however, Latinxs are mostly invisible within Shakespeare studies. A move toward the borders of Mexican America, however, allows for underrepresented perspectives in the ongoing making of Shakespeare through manifold discussions of national and linguistic identity, race, ethnicity, gender, economics, ethics, citizenship, assimilation, legitimacy, and legacy.</p><p>This talk surveys and informs these provocative issues by critically examining the intersections of Shakespeare and Latinx culture in film, media, fiction, social networks, localized adaptations, and other forms of popular culture. By attending to these intersections, we find that Shakespeare is on the border of having genuine value for an audience who, without doubt, has the potential to leave a lasting legacy for Shakespeare studies in our time and beyond.</p><p></p><h3>About Ruben Espinosa</h3><p>Ruben Espinosa is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author of Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare’s England (2011) and co-editor of Shakespeare and Immigration (2014), a collection of essays exploring the role of immigrants, exiles, and refugees in Shakespeare’s England and work. In 2018, he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America. He is currently at work on his next two monographs, Shakespeare on the Border: Language, Legitimacy and La Frontera, and Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (forthcoming with Routledge).    </p>

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