Vanessa I. Corredera
Dr Vanessa I. Corredera is Professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Her research focuses on representations of race, gender, and sexuality in the afterlives of Shakespeare’s works, most especially in performance and popular culture. Significant publications include her monograph, Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America (Edinburgh UP), as well as the co-edited collections Shakespeare Race, and Anglophone Popular Culture (Bloomsbury), “What Country, Friend, is This?” Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile (ACMRS Press), and Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation (Routledge). She is anticipating the forthcoming publication of a co-edited anthology, Shakespeare Refracted: Five Plays by Caridad Svich (Methuen). She has served as a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and as a former General Editor of Borrowers and Lenders. Currently, she is one of the General Editors of Shakespeare Quarterly.
Nandini Das
Dr Nandini Das is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture and Fellow of Exeter College at the University of Oxford. She is a scholar of literature, travel, migration, and cross-cultural encounters, and has published widely on these topics. Among her books are Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570-1620 (2011) and The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (2019), co-edited with Tim Youngs, and as project director for the ‘Travel, Transculturality and Identity in Early Modern England’ (ERC-TIDE) project, she has co-written and edited Keywords of Identity and Lives in Transit, about early modern English concepts around identity and race and the lives they touched. In May 2026, Professor Das published This Little World, a new history of Tudor and Stuart England from the perspective of those moving in and out of the country. Her most recent previous book, Courting India: England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire, was the Spectator, Prospect, and History Today Book of the Year in 2023, longlisted for the Cundhill Prize, shortlisted for the Duff Cooper and Wolfson History Prizes, and received the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. She is currently editing Cymbeline for the Fourth Series of Arden Shakespeare, as well as the Elizabethan Levant Trade and South Asia volume in the forthcoming Oxford edition of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations (1598-1600), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Travel, Race and Identity in Early Modern England. A BBC New Generation Thinker, she regularly presents television and radio programmes on her research.
Te Haumihiata Mason
Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Pango, Te Arawa. Māori language tutor, consultant, translator (certified), script writer, editor and quality assurer. Born by the sea in Tauranga Moana and raised in Tūhoe country, Dr Te Haumihiata Mason has spent a lifetime devoted to te reo Māori. Her formative years were spent in an isolated monolingual Māori community at a time when most of the food for the table was sourced from the land, bush, river and sea. Growing up in this environment instilled in Te Haumihiata a passion for te reo Māori, a love of native flora and fauna and a compulsion for growing things. It also paved the way for some exciting work throughout a lifetime (career) dedicated to assisting in the revitalization of te reo Māori me ngā tikanga Māori.
Te Haumihiata Mason has lectured at Waikato University, tutored at many Iwi Kura Reo, consulted on many Māori language broadcasting and education initiatives, and she worked for Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori as Kaitiaki Reo Māori for many years.
She has co-authored many Māori language publications, including: Te Matatiki (2nd edition), He Kohinga Kīwaha, and was an important member of the team that wrote and edited He Pātaka Kupu (the first monolingual Māori dictionary for adults); and more recently translated Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 18 and in 2012, an abridged version of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida that was performed at the Globe Theatre in London, UK. She has translated and published Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. In 2018 Te Haumihiata translated Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl.