Curatorial Publication
Special Exhibitions
Shakespeare Unbound. Campuswide Special Exhibit. UMass Amherst, 2023-2024.
Website ❦ https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/shakespeare-unbound
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio of William Shakespeare’s plays (1623) and the world-premiere of the Gillespie family’s private collection of William Shakespeare’s works. At the W. E. B. Du Bois Library and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, the Shakespeare Unbound exhibit asks: what happens when Shakespeare appears in fragments or as momentary flashes in history? With selections from the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Phillis Wheatley, and others are joined in conversation with William Shakespeare to explore stories of Shakespeare unbound and rebound, scattered and gathered into new assemblages across place and time.
Print Catalogues: ❦ Shakespeare Unbound (2023-2024) ❦ Noble Fragments (Fall 2023)
❦ Shakespeare and Mass Incarceration (Spring 2024) & Related Symposium here
❦ Press and Photos here; Massachusetts Daily Collegian story here
❦ New Fellowship: Gillespie Fellowship in Shakespeare and the Book. This competitive fellowship offers an opportunity for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students to work with one of the most important private Shakespeare collections in America, now on permanent
loan to the Kinney Center. Website ❦ Shakespeare Curated
‘So Long Lives This’: A Celebration of Shakespeare’s Life and Works, 1616-2016 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2016.
2016 marks four hundred years since the death of William Shakespeare. The exhibition explores how Shakespeare’s works shaped ideas of the world beyond England, how his plays imagined self and other through language, geography and mythology and how, in turn, the production of atlases, dictionaries, and histories influenced Shakespeare’s world-making art. Co-Curators Scott Schofield, Alan Galey, and Peter Blayney.
❦ Catalogue ❦ Audio Tour
Water-Worlds: Ripple Effects or Sea Change? Kinney Center. Co-Curated with Evan MacCarthy (Dept. of Music and Dance). March 2024 – June 2024. ❦ Print and online Catalogue ❦ Related Symposium Programming
Earthly Extractions. Exhibition & Collaboration with UMass Fine Arts Center. Summer 2025. ❦ Catalogue
Seasonal Distortions: An Almanac for the Anthropocene. Kinney Center Artist in Residence Exhibit with Felicity Sheehy. Spring 2025. ❦ Catalogue
Apocalypse: Science and Myth. Kinney Center Artist in Residence Exhibit with Suzette Martin. April – September 2023. Catalogue ❦ https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/apocalypse ❦ Inside UMass story here ❦ Interview here
Foraged: Kitchen Garden Herbaria. Kinney Center Artist in Residence Exhibit with Madge Evers. November 2022 – March 2023. Catalogue ❦ https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/foraged
❦ Inside UMass story here
Mapping Terroir: Myth and Memory. Kinney Center Artist in Residence Exhibit with Andrea Calouri. June – September 2022. Catalogue ❦ https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/mapping-terroir ❦ Inside UMass story here ❦ Daily Hampshire Gazette story here
Othello, Then and Now. Kinney Center Special Exhibit in conjunction with the American Moor residency. Kinney Center, UMass Amherst. Fall 2018.
Island Fictions. W.E.B. Du Bois Library Special Collections & Mount Holyoke College Special Collections. Teaching Exhibition, UMass Amherst. October 2018.
Shakespeare in Performance: Twelfth Night in the Archives. Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival, Canada. May 2017.
The Theater of the Book. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. May 2017.
Renaissance Keywords. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Guest Speaker: David Fernández. February 2017.
Gateways to the Past: Touring Renaissance Lexical Culture. Featuring a collection of dictionaries dating from the late medieval period through Johnson’s 1755 English Dictionary. University of Michigan, December 2015.
Bodies on the Page: Exploring Ideas of Sex and Gender in the Renaissance. A special exhibit and teaching symposium held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Guest Speaker: Dr. Scott Schofield. March 2011.