Liz Fox is the Arts and Academic Programs Coordinator at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and she is Managing Editor for English Literary Renaissance.
Her edited collection, Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration, brings together theater artists, currently and formerly incarcerated actors, and college-in-prison educators and students for a timely consideration of how Shakespeare shows up in prison. Contributors describe powerful encounters in classrooms and rehearsal rooms as they explore the complexity of “prison Shakespeare” within a racially charged system of over-incarceration and grapple with the challenges of liberatory practices in carceral spaces.
Liz teaches courses on early modern drama and culture, gender and sexuality studies, and material culture that feature transhistorical approaches to Renaissance studies. She teaches in a diverse range of academic settings, including Wesleyan University’s Center for Prison Education, Bard College’s Clemente Course in the Humanities (Springfield), and Bay Path University’s American Women’s College.