'Book Talk on Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula (Palgrave 2016) by Dr. Katherine Hennessey, of Global Shakespeare, the University of Warwick and Queen Mary University of London (BACC Delegates Hall).
Katherine Hennessey, PhD is a Research Fellow with the Global Shakespeare programme at the University of Warwick and Queen Mary University of London.
She was the organiser and co-convenor, with Clair Wills and Fintan O’Toole, of the Ireland and Shakespeare symposium at Princeton University in March 2016, and is chair of the ‘Arab Shakespeares’ panel at this year’s World Shakespeare Congress.
From 2009 to mid-2014 she lived in Sana’a, Yemen, researching the history of the performing arts in the Arabian Peninsula. A recipient of Fulbright and Beinecke fellowships, she has held university appointments in English at Bethlehem University on the Palestinian West Bank, and in Italian at Sana’a University.
Hennessey is co-editor, with Margaret Litvin, of the Winter 2016 special issue of Critical Survey.
Dr. Hennessey will be talking exclusively about her forthcoming publication this year from Palgrave's Global Shakespeare’s series, Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula.. For more information about Dr. Hennessey and her other publications, please visit warwick.ac.uk/khennessey.
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