Natasha Korda (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1995) is Professor of English, and served as Director of the Center for the Humanities from 2018-2025, and as Chair of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies from 2009-2011.
Her research interests include early modern English dramatic literature and culture, theater history, women’s social, economic and legal history, and material and visual culture studies. She is author of Labors Lost: Women’s Work and the Early Modern English Stage (2011) and Shakespeare’s Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (2002), and over thirty scholarly essays. She is editor of the Norton Critical edition of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (2025) and co-editor of two anthologies, Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama (2011) and Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (2002). She is currently working on a new book entitled Shakespearean Walkscapes, and another on feminist counter-archives and early modern theater and performance historiography.
She served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2020-2021. Her research has been supported by Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities, an International Research Fellowship at Oxford Brookes University, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Charles S. Singleton Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University’s Villa Spelman, and fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She has served on the editorial boards of Renaissance Quarterly, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal and The Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia, and on executive committees of the Modern Language Association and the Renaissance Society of America. She is on the steering committee of the international Theater Without Borders research collaborative, which convened for its 20th anniversary conference at Wesleyan in June 2019.
In Person Meeting | 4:45 Reception, 5:30 talk