theatre historian and performance theorist
Carla Della Gatta is a theatre historian and performance theorist whose research focuses on ethnicity and aurality. She is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at University of Maryland, College Park. She is author of Latinx Shakespeares: Staging US Intracultural Theater (University of Michigan Press, 2023) and co-editor of Shakespeare and Latinidad (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). She built and manages the first archive of Latinx theatrical adaptation, LatinxShakespeares.Org. She has worked as a scholar for the theatre for The Public Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Victory Gardens, and more. She has received numerous grants and awards including those from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (now Citizens and Scholars), Folger Shakespeare Library, New York Public Library, American Society for Theatre Research, and best dissertation award from the Shakespeare Association of America for her foundational work on Shakespeare and Latinidad.
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