Prof. Katherine Schapp Williams

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Katherine Schaap Williams is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her writing-on topics such as disability in the early modern theatre, dramatic character as memetic repetition, crip temporalities in early modern performance, and contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare's plays-has been published or is forthcoming in English Literary History, English Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, Early Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and several edited collections. She edited the 1605 play Eastward Ho, by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, for The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama, edited by Jeremy Lopez (Routledge, 2020).

Her monograph, Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater, was published by Cornell University Press in 2021. In 2022, Unfixable Forms was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society's David Bevington Award for the best new book in early drama studies, and an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.