Carol Mejia LaPerle

Dr. Carol Mejia LaPerle is Professor and Honors Advisor for the Department of English at Wright State University. Her research interests include Renaissance/early modern drama, poetry and culture, critical race theory, gender studies, philosophies of will, and affective performances of and in Shakespeare. She regularly teaches a survey of early English literature, special topics in early modern drama, and the methods and materials of academic research. An active blog site for her Study Abroad program to the Stratford Theatre Festival of Canada can be found here: http://blogs.wright.edu/learn/stratfordcanada/

Her work has been supported by Wright State University’s Research Council, College of Liberal Arts Research Grant, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was selected to participate in the “Gender, Race, and Early Modern Studies” colloquium held at the Folger Shakespeare Library throughout 2017-2018 and was an invited speaker for the 2019 RaceB4Race Symposium on Periodization and Race: https://acmrs.asu.edu/public-events/symposia/race-and-periodization