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Bard Talks: Diversifying Shakespeare in the Classroom

Dr. Leticia Garcia unfolds her discoveries and best practices for intercultural experiences of Shakespeare in the classroom She will speak from her experience as a person of color in Shakespeare Studies and her research into the politics of intercultural spectatorship of Shakespeare. Watch the free live-stream Bard Talks Webinar Saturday, May 16 at 10am Pacific. Register to save your spot>>

Biography: Dr. Letty Garcia is a #ShakeRace scholar and lecturer in the Humanities Core Program at UCI where she currently teaches a course focused on pre-modern ways of thinking about animals and culture. Dr. García’s research interests focus on cultural/artistic exchange between México and Shakespeare. Letty is a hybrid kind of Early Modernist moonlighting as a Mexicanista on her days off from Shakespeare. Dr. García is an incoming UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Barbara in the Department of English.