Katherine Gillen is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. She is the author of Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity, and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare’s Stage (EUP, 2017), and several essays on race, gender, and economics in early modern drama and Shakespeare appropriation.

Her monograph in progress, Shakespeare’s Racial Classicism: Whiteness, Slavery, and Humanism, explores the racial work performed through Shakespeare’s appropriation of Classical sources. With Kathryn Vomero Santos and Adrianna M. Santos, she co-founded the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva and is co-editing an anthology of Borderlands Shakespeare plays (forthcoming from ACRMS Press).