Robin Kello
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 501
rkello056@wcupa.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
- M.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- B.A., New York University
Interests
- Early Modern Drama, especially Shakespeare and Marlowe
- Shakespeare in Performance
- Adaptation and Appropriation
- Migration, Mobility, and Theater
- Translation and Bilingual Theater
- Prison Education
Selected Publications
Books
Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles. Edited with Barbara Fuchs and Aina Soley Mateu. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (2024).
Articles, Book Chapters, and Theater Reviews
“Seas of Displacement, Acts of Hope: Pericles’ Twenty-First-Century Adaptations.” In “Local Oceans: New Perspectives on Colonial Geographies,” special issue, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 22.2 (2022): 121–140.
“Refugee Shakespeares: Early Modern Drama and Twenty-First Century Displacement.” “What Country, Friends, Is This?” Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile, edited by Vanessa I. Corredera, Stephanie E. Chamberlain, and James M. Sutton. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press (2026): 233–255.
“Wisdom and Welcome in Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong.” In Shakespeare and Wisdom: Ecumenical, Ecological and Ethical Horizons, edited by Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton. Edinburgh University Press (2024): 285–297.
“A Theatre Practice Against the Unbearable Whiteness of Shakespeare: In Conversation with Keith Hamilton Cobb and Anchuli Felicia King.” In White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture and the Elite, edited by Arthur L. Little, Jr. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare (2022):199–210.
The Merchant of Venice (Annotated), or In Sooth I Know Not Why I Am So Sad. Directed by Aaron Henne. Theatre Dybbuk. Shakespeare Bulletin 41.3 (2023): 464–467.
Where We Belong. Directed by Mei Ann Teo. Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Theatre Journal 74.1(2022): 98–100.
Marlowe Lives Cabaret. Directed by Rho Chung and Emily Ingram. The Show Must Go Online. Shakespeare Bulletin 39.4 (2021): 732–735.
Romeo y Julieta. Directed by Saheem Ali. The Public Theater and WNYC Studios. Shakespeare Bulletin 39.3 (2021): 504–508.
The African Company Presents Richard III. Directed by Carl Cofield. Red Bull Theater. Theatre Journal 73.3 (2021): 420–421.