Justin P. Shaw is an Assistant Professor of English at Clark University where he teaches and researches Shakespeare and early modern English literature. His work explores the intersections of race, emotions, and disability in 16th and 17th Century texts. He is completing a book project, “Melancholy Marks: Emotion and Race-Making in Early Modern English Literature”, that examines how racial identity is articulated through melancholic discourse in early modern drama, poetry, and prose. Committed to both public and traditional scholarship, his work appears in the journal Early Theatre, White People in Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2022), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Race, Travel, and Identity in Early Modern England, 1550-1700. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming volume Inclusive Shakespeare: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 exp). He regularly teaches courses on otherness and belonging in Shakespeare and early British literature including: “Shakespeare and Race”, “Working my Nerves: Emotions in the Renaissance”, and “Milk & Honey: Early Modern Utopias” as well as British Literature I and Introduction to Shakespeare.