M. Lindsay Kaplan

M. Lindsay Kaplan is Professor in the Department of English, Georgetown University, where she teaches courses on medieval and early modern literature and culture, focusing on law, race, religious difference, gender, and adaptation. She has published a number of essays, seven of which focus on The Merchant of Venice, and several books, including a contextual edition of The Merchant of Venice, (Bedford/St. Martins, 2002) a monograph, Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity, (Oxford, 2019) and a volume of essays on The Merchant of Venice in the Arden State of Play series (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is currently working on Racializing Infidels: Medieval Continuities in Early Modern English Drama, a book project that traces a medieval representation of Jews together with Muslims as racialized enemies to the faith to demonstrate its continuity in early modern English plays coordinating Jews with Muslims as gendered infidel subordinates to male Christian identity.