Shakespeare, Race and Pedagogy Podcast
www.shakeracepedagogy.com Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy is a podcast and education initiative, created by Dr Wendy Lennon, which seeks to share, celebrate, and reinvigorate approaches to the teaching and study of literature. Bringing together contributions from international scholars, teachers, students, and our multilingual communities to investigate literary texts and their place in our world and in our lives.
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Episodes
7 days ago
7 days ago
How can we include Shakespeare and pre-modern notions of race in African American and Africana literature classrooms?
Is there a way to dismantle rigid hierarchies which gatekeep Shakespeare?
How can we work collaboratively to effectively teach ShakeRace?
Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Dr Hannah Bowling.
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Sunday Apr 06, 2025
Sunday Apr 06, 2025
What is Lit in Colour?
How can schools work collaboratively to develop and improve their curriculum?
How can we reform English teaching to improve our students' learning experience and progression to prepare them for their future careers?
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Sunday Mar 30, 2025
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
Theatre Studies and Shakespeare. Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Chris Anthony.
Why is the theatre and drama important and beneficial for our students to study?
How can we bring Shakespeare and race into acting classes?
How can we interweave the pressing issues in our students lives with Shakespeare's plays?
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Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Neurodiversity & Shakespeare. Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Bridget Bartlett.
What is the relationship between neurodiversity and racial formation in early modern English culture?
How do racializing expectations for both behaviour and spirituality place neuronormativity at the heart of racial thinking?
What are the parallels between race-based rationals for colonialism on the one hand and contemporary forms of neuroableism on the other?
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Sunday Mar 16, 2025
Sunday Mar 16, 2025
Sound in Macbeth & 'The Sonic Color Line'. Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Dr Jennifer Stoever.
What is 'the sonic color line'?
How does Shakespeare use sound in Macbeth?
Does sound have invisible, racialized and critical power?
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Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Teaching Shakespeare in an independent secondary school in England. Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Ben Miller.
How can we teach Shakespeare in engaging, innovative and sensitive ways?
What are the challenges and opportunities of being the Head of English in an independent secondary school in England?
What are our hopes for the future of English teaching?
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Sunday Mar 09, 2025
Sunday Mar 09, 2025
Teaching Shakespeare in South Africa. Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Dr Hassana Moosa. #ShakeRacePedagogy
What are the challenges, opportunities and distinct history of teaching Shakespeare in South Africa?
How can adaptation and the sonic colour line be taught through Saheem Ali's radio production of Richard III?
Which strategies, tools and methodologies can be used to train teachers in South Africa?
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Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Dr Wendy Lennon and Dr Maggie Rose discuss Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in Milan.
Who were the three historic Milanese figures who might have inspired Shakespeare's Prospero?
What were the tensions between Neapolitans, Milanese and Londoners in 'The Tempest'?
How has The Tempest been adapted for the Shakespearean city of Milan?
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Friday Feb 28, 2025
Friday Feb 28, 2025
Dr Wendy Lennon and Dr Varsha Panjwani discuss race, class and gender in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
How does race intersect with gender and class in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
How can themes of race, class and gender be taught sensitively and in engaging ways?
How might an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream take into account race words that are glossed in the text, with an introduction to meaningfully contextualise these topics?
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Friday Feb 28, 2025
Friday Feb 28, 2025
The Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy podcast.
Dr Wendy Lennon was the guest editor of the British Shakespeare Association's 'Teaching Shakespeare 26' magazine. In this 'Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy' special edition of the magazine, Lennon wrote an article about 'The Global Resurgence of Authoritarianism'. In this podcast episode, Lennon shares her experiences of teaching under an enforced regime in an academy trust.
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