Ayanna Thompson

Ayanna Thompson is Professor of English at Arizona State University[1] and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (ACMRS).[2][3] She is the president of the Shakespeare Association of America.[4] She specialises in Renaissance drama and issues of race in performance.

Ayanna Thompson
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sussex, Harvard University
ThesisDepicting Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish
InstitutionsArizona State University

Education

Thompson won a Marshall Scholarship to study at the University of Sussex, receiving a Masters in 1995.[5] She received her PhD from Harvard University in 2001. Her doctoral dissertation was Depicting Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage.[6]

Career

Thompson was previously an investment banker at Lehman Brothers.[3] Thompson was Professor at Arizona State University 2004-2013 before her appointment at George Washington University.[7][8] Thompson served as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2017-2018.[4]

She was previously President of the Shakespeare Association of America (2018–19).[9][1] She currently serves on the boards of the journals Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Drama, and Shakespeare Bulletin. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Marshall Scholars.[10]

Thompson gave the keynote speech on "Shakespeare and Blackface" at the Shakespeare and Social Justice conference held at the University of Cape Town in association with the University of the Witwatersrand and the Shakespeare Association of Southern Africa in 2019.[11]

As Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Thompson is the creator of RaceB4Race, an ongoing conference series and professional network community by and for scholars of color.[12]

Thompson has been described as 'a world-class scholar', an 'accomplished leader', a 'true innovator', and 'a major force'.[3]

Bibliography
  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars (London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2018)[13]
  • Shakespeare, Race and Performance: The Diverse Bard, ed. by Delia Jarrett-Macauley (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017)[14]
  • (ed.) Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance (London: Routledge, 2016)[15]
  • (ed. with Laura Turchi) Teaching Shakespeare With Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016)[16]
  • Introduction to Othello, edited by E. A. J. Honigmann (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2016)
  • Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, And Contemporary America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)[17][18]
  • (ed.) Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (London: Palgrave, 2010)
  • Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (New York: Routledge, 2008)[19]

References
  1. "Arizona State University staff page".
  2. "About ACMRS Press". ACMRS Press. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  3. "Thompson set to transform Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies". ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact. 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  4. "PBK - Behind the Key". www.pbk.org. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  5. "Alumnae Explore Race, Revenge in Shakespeare | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  6. "Depicting race and torture on the early modern stage". hollis.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  7. "Ayanna Thompson". members.pbk.org. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  8. klburt (2019-06-07). "Ayanna Thompson, Professor (Literature) and Director, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies". Department of English. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  9. "Shakespeare Association of America | Officers". Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  10. "Ayanna Thompson – Shakespeare, Race, and the Practical Humanities Symposium". sites.lafayette.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  11. "Shakespeare and Social Justice keynote address by Professor Ayanna Thompson: 5pm, 16 May 2019 | Department of English Literature". www.english.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  12. "RaceB4Race™ | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies". acmrs.asu.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  13. MacKay, Ellen (2019-05-27). "Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama". SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. 59 (2): 429–479. doi:10.1353/sel.2019.0021. ISSN 1522-9270. S2CID 191726266.
  14. Linton, David (2018-12-07). "Shakespeare, Race and Performance: The Diverse Bard ed. by Delia Jarrett-Macauley (review)". Theatre Notebook. 72 (3): 181–182. ISSN 2051-8358.
  15. Smith, Ian (2008-09-14). "Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance (review)". Shakespeare Quarterly. 59 (3): 354–356. doi:10.1353/shq.0.0018. ISSN 1538-3555. S2CID 191586854.
  16. Bloomsbury.com. "Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  17. Royster, Francesca (2013-04-14). "Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race and Contemporary America by Ayanna Thompson (review)". Comparative Drama. 47 (1): 134–137. doi:10.1353/cdr.2013.0012. ISSN 1936-1637.
  18. "Mixed Race Studies » Ayanna Thompson". Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  19. Lamb, Caroline (2011-06-09). "Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (review)". Theatre Journal. 63 (2): 299–300. doi:10.1353/tj.2011.0044. ISSN 1086-332X. S2CID 191363234.
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