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William Wolfgang Ph.D.
Education
- PhD in English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, 2021
- MS in Arts Administration, Drexel University, 2015
- BS in Education, Millersville University, 2010
Professional Experience
- Lecturer, Stevenson University, 2023-Present
- Adjunct Professor, Stevenson University, 2021-2023
- Part-time Lecturer, University of California, Merced, 2021
Research
Served as Special Researcher for Shakespeare’s Creative and Global Legacies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust investigating:
- American Shakespeare Festivals
- Community-based Shakespeare in performance
Other Research Interests Include:
- Shakespeare’s role in the Little Theatre Movement
- Rural and Community-based arts
- Eco-Shakespeare
- Early modern literature in bilingual performance
Publications
- “‘El español puede ser todo:’ Bilingual Grassroots Shakespeare in Merced, California.” Inclusive Shakespeares: Radical Accessibility in Shakespeare Studies, edited by Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, and David Houston Wood, Palgrave Macmillan, October 2023.
- “Ricardo II: una producción bilingüe de Merced Shakespearefest.” Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation co-written with Erin Sullivan, edited by Gemma Kate Allred, Benjamin Broadribb, and Erin Sullivan, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Series, July 2022, pp. 161-170.
- “Grassroots Shakespeare: ‘I love Shakespeare, and I live here’: Amateur Shakespeare Performance in American Communities.” Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 39 no. 3, 2021, pp. 355-373.
Teaching
- CM 101 Public Speaking
- ENG 150 College Writing I: Writing from Sources
- ENG 151 College Writing I: Writing from Sources
- ENG 152 College Writing II: Writing About Literature
- ENG 281 Topics in Literature: Revenge Stories
- THEA 116 Script Analysis
- THEA 121 Introduction to Theatre
Highlights
William Wolfgang is a lecturer in English Language and Literature at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, Maryland, and a community-based theatre practitioner. Dr. Wolfgang has produced and participated in nearly all of Shakespeare’s thirty-nine play canon with the OrangeMite Shakespeare Company in York, Pennsylvania, and has also directed and adapted productions with Merced Shakespearefest and Shakespeare in Yosemite while lecturing at the University of California, Merced. After serving as a special researcher for Shakespeare’s creative and global legacies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, he completed the first major study of community-based Shakespeare performance in the United States. Dr. Wolfgang’s research has taken him across the country from Maine to California and, most recently, to rural western Kansas, where he continues researching early twentieth-century Shakespeare Festivals.
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