Kyle Grady

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Associate Professor, English
School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of Michigan, English Language & Literature
University of California, Irvine
159 Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Early Modern Studies, Shakespeare Studies, Black Studies, Mixed Race Studies
Publications
Mixed Race Moors: Shakespeare and Formulations of Blackness (University of Pennsylvania Press, Forthcoming 2027)
“Emphasis and Elision: Early Modern English Approaches to Racial Mixing and their Afterlives,” New Literary History 52.3/4
"Shakespeare and Mixed Race," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race (edited by Patricia Akhimie), Oxford University Press
“‘The Miseducation of Irie Jones’: Identity and Identification in the Shakespeare Classroom,” Early Modern Culture 14
"'Envy Pale of Hew': Whiteness and Division in 'Fair Verona,'" White People in Shakespeare (edited by Arthur L. Little), Arden Bloomsbury
“Zora Neale Hurston and Humoral Theory: Comparing Racial Concepts from Early Modern England and Post-Abolition America,” Shakespeare Studies 46
“Why Front? The Importance of ‘Nonstandard’ English in the Shakespeare Classroom,” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 17.3
“Othello, Colin Powell, and Post-Racial Anachronisms,” Shakespeare Quarterly 67.1
Last updated
07/11/2026