Justin Shaw
Assistant Professor, English
Scholarly Interests
Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, Race, Disability, Emotions
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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.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in English Literature, Emory University, 2020
- M.A. in English and American Literature, University of Houston, 2014
- B.A. in English Literature, Morehouse College, 2011
Affiliated Department(s)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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"Marking Melancholy, or the Intimacy of Race and Disability in Shakespeare's As You Like It"
Modern Language Association (MLA)
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Philadelphia, PA
January
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2024
Sponsored by MLA
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The Oxford Handbook of Travel, Identity, and Race, 1550-1700
Chapter: "Race, Character, and Melancholy"Published by Oxford University Press
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2024
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Book Review for 'Shakespeare and Disability Studies' by Sonya Freeman Loftis
Shakespeare Studies
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2024
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“The Complexion of the Church”: Witnessing Whiteness and Melancholy in Donne’s Sonnets and Sermons
Renaissance Workshop
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Chicago, IL
May
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2023
Sponsored by English Department, University of Chicago
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"Marking Melancholic Racism in Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage"
University of Chicago Renaissance Workshop
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Chicago, IL
May
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2023
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"Lost Causes: Whiteness and Scientific Racism in Dryden's Shakespeare"
Princeton University English Renaissance Colloquium
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Princeton, NJ
March
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2023
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Book Review for "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race"
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
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2023
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Inclusive Shakespeares: Performance, Pedagogy, Identity
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2023
Palgrave Macmillan
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"Blackness and the Racial Threshold in Early Modern English Literature"
Emory University Black Studies in English Lecture Series
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Atlanta, GA
October
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2022
Sponsored by Emory University Department of English
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Shakespeare and Inclusive Pedagogy
Shakespeare Association of America
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May
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2022
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Awards & Grants
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North Star Collective Fellowship
New England Board of Higher Education
Dec. 1, 2021 - May. 13, 2022
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CU Advance Fellowship
Dean of the Faculty's Office
Oct. 19, 2021 - May. 11, 2022
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Best Issue in Review Essay for Early Theatre, vols 22 and 23.
Early Theatre Journal
2021
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