An Interview with Karen Raber: Reflections on Posthumanist Shakespeares

Robert Sawyer; Monika Sosnowska

doi:10.18778/2083-8530.24.02

Authors

Robert Sawyer East Tennessee State University, USA
Monika Sosnowska University of Lodz, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7520-6335

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.24.02

Author Biographies

Robert Sawyer, East Tennessee State University, USA

Robert Sawyer is Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where he teaches Shakespeare, Victorian Literature, and Literary Criticism. Author of Victorian Appropriations of Shakespeare (2003), Marlowe and Shakespeare: The Critical Rivalry (2017), and Shakespeare Between the World Wars (2019). His most recent publication is Chapter 6: “Dramatic Escapes,” in the Shakespearean International Yearbook which focuses on the refugee crisis (2021).
Monika Sosnowska, University of Lodz, Poland

Monika Sosnowska completed her PhD on the representations of the senses in Hamlet and its selected film adaptations (2011) at the University of Lodz, Poland, where she teaches. Her publications include journal articles, chapters in books, co-edited books, and monographs. Her research interests are posthumanism, green Shakespeare, ecology and ecocriticism. She is the academic assistant of Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance and she is a member of the International Shakespeare Studies Centre (Poland).

References

Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2010. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv111jh6w

Latour, Bruno. Politics of Nature. How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Trans. By Catherine Porter. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Trans. by Catherine Porter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Weheliye, Alexander G. Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822376491

Wolfe, Cary. What is Posthumanism? University of Minnesota Press, 2010.