Kathryn Vomero Santos is Assistant Professor of English and co-director of the Humanities Collective at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Her cross-historical research explores the intersections of performance with the politics of language, empire, and racial formation in the early modern period and in our contemporary moment. She is currently completing a book about race, multilingualism, and assimilation entitled Shakespeare in Tongues. With Katherine Gillen and Adrianna M. Santos, she co-founded the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, and together, they are editing The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera for ACMRS Press. The first of three volumes was published in March 2023 and is available in print and as an open access text at acmrspress.com.