Ayanna Thompson is Assistant Professor of English and Women & Gender Studies. She specializes in early modern drama and focuses on depictions of race in the Renaissance. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, The Eighteenth Century, Textus, and Arthuriana. Her book, Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage, was published in the Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series in 2007. In addition, her edited collection, Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance, was published by Routledge in 2006. She has begun another book project that examines the way popular culture addresses issues of race through Shakespearean texts, appropriations, and adaptations. At ASU she regularly teaches the Survey of Early British Literature (ENG 221), Introduction to Shakespeare (ENG 321), Advanced Shakespeare (ENG 421 & 422), Renaissance Drama: Revenge Tragedies (ENG 423), and various graduate courses on race in the Renaissance.
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