“whan that dronken al was in the crowke,

To bedde wente the doghter right anon;

… up Aleyn rist, and by the wenche he crepte.

This wenche lay uprighte and faste slepte,

Til he so ny was, er she myghte espie,

That it had been to late for to crie,

And shortly for to seyn, they...

With recent tragedies in San Bernardino, Adis Ababa, Paris, Nice, Orlando, Baton Rouge, Dallas...much media attention has centered on communal feelings of grief.

How does grief connect us to other creatures, and how might it lead to optimism or hope? To explore these is...

Performing Humanity has been on an indefinite hiatus, as other projects and interests have demanded attention as of late. But recent tragedies seem to demand a move away from silence.

This blog is a community that explores humanness and human value, largely through hist...

 I recently came across an interesting student article regarding the problematic portrayal of women in recent novels and films such as "Gone Girl" and "The Girl on the Train." Kirsten Greenwood's thoughtful critique takes particular issue with the idea that the female...

At Performing Humanity, we like to notify readers of new materials emerging in the field, such as the upcoming Shakespearean International Yearbook special issue on "Shakespeare & the Human."

 The issue takes a complex look at questions of humanness and humanity as the...

When the Architecture + Design Museum of Los Angeles hosted its annual Celebrate Gala by featuring the theme of "Shelter," issues regarding the human animal were sure to emerge. After all, no matter how often humans collectively try to Other non-human animals, our sha...

It's not often that I speak from the blog this way, commenting in singular first-person as opposed to the collective "we" of Performing Humanity. But this month calls me to it, with a double anniversary that has me reflecting not only about larger concepts of "humanne...

I think of the Shakespeare Association of America as a kind of intellectual home: it’s a place where I go to hear papers that reflect the current state of the field but it’s also a place where I go to share my work-in-progress. The tension between these two aspects of...