Boika Sokolova

Adjunct Associate Professor, London Global Gateway

Boika Sokolova teaches Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame in England. She has published widely on Shakespeare, his reception in Europe, and performance. Her essays have appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Bulletin, Cahiers Élsabéthains and in a number of collections such as A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (Blackwell, 2007 and 2010), Shakespeare and Genre (Palgrave, 2011), The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation (2020). She is one of the founders of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) and initiated the Annual Notre Dame Shakespeare Lecture in Honor of Professor Sir Stanley Wells at the London Global Gateway. Her latest book, Shakespeare’s Others on the 21st European Stages: The Merchant of Venice and Othello, co-edited with Janice Valls-Russell, is forthcoming in September 2021 (Bloomsbury).