About this Elements series
The teaching and learning of Shakespeare around the world is complex and changing. Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy synthesises theory and practice, including provocative, original pieces of research, as well as dynamic, practical engagements with learning contexts.
About the Editors
Liam E. Semler is Professor of Early Modern Literature in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. He is author of Teaching Shakespeare and Marlowe: Learning versus the System (2013) and co-editor (with Kate Flaherty and Penny Gay) of Teaching Shakespeare beyond the Centre: Australasian Perspectives (2013). He is editor of Coriolanus: A Critical Reader (2021) and co-editor (with Claire Hansen and Jackie Manuel) of Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration (Cambridge, forthcoming). His most recent book outside Shakespeare studies is The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 (2019). Liam leads the Better Strangers project which hosts the open-access Shakespeare Reloaded website (shakespearereloaded.edu.au).
Gillian Woods is an Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in English at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Shakespeare’s Unreformed Fictions (2013; joint winner of Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award), Romeo and Juliet: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism (2012), and numerous articles about Renaissance drama. She is the co-editor (with Sarah Dustagheer) of Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre (2018). She is currently working on a new edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Cambridge University Press, as well as a Leverhulme-funded monograph about Renaissance Theatricalities. As founding director of the Shakespeare Teachers’ Conversations, she runs a seminar series that brings together university academics, school teachers and educationalists from non-traditional sectors, and she regularly runs workshops for schools.
Contact the Editors
If you are interested in publishing in this series, please contact the editors Liam E. Semler at: liam.semler@sydney.edu.au or Gillian Woods at: gillian.woods@ell.ox.ac.uk.
Elements in this series
Advisory Board
Janelle Jenstad (University of Victoria), Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare’s Globe), Bi-qi Beatrice Lei (National Taiwan University), Florence March (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier), Peggy O’Brien (Folger Shakespeare Library), Paul Prescott (University of California Merced), Abigail Rokison-Woodall (University of Birmingham), Emma Smith (University of Oxford), Patrick Spottiswoode (Shakespeare’s Globe), Jenny Stevens (English Association), Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University), Joe Winston (University of Warwick)
Video interview with Editors Gillian Woods and Liam E. Semler
Areas of interest
Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy provides a carefully curated collection of explorations, interventions, and provocations. Individual Elements may emphasise one of these or deliver a blended approach.
- Explorations deliver extended, research-based analyses and pursuits of ideas, processes and practices.
- Interventions present practical, innovative engagements with learning contexts. Such pieces may involve teachers or practitioners as collaborators and will speak in direct terms to real teaching situations.
- Provocations offer critiques of practice and policy, reimagined or reoriented approaches, propositions of alternatives and urgent manifestoes.