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Explores neuroscience of acting through wearable brain imaging. Describes study where actors rehearsing scenes from Midsummer Night’s Dream were analyzed by wearable neuroimaging and hyperscanning, measuring actors’ sense of self and interpersonal coordination. Argues studies demonstrate how wearable brain imaging can be deployed to study complex social–emotional activities of theatrical training and performance. English summary, 2215.

Offers account of role of commonplacing professional drama in elevating early modern drama's status to literature. Assesses commonplacing of professional drama during Poet's War (1599-1601) between Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and Thomas Dekker, considering effects of Poet's War on book trade and asking how "commonplacing Poets’ War drama served to make the playbooks appealing commodities for Inns [of Court] men." 

Reports on efforts to use Shakespearean graphic novels to introduce Malaysian school students to gender-related issues. Examined female representations in digital graphic novels that define social expectations associated with gender and assessed teachers’ perception of novels. Sought to address how stereotypical representations of women in novels challenged efforts of inclusivity. English summary, online.

Employs theory of "brain text" as used in discourse system of ethical literary criticism to analyze brain text conversion and cross-cultural integration of Shakespeare's comedies translated into Chinese operatic adaptations. Considers how comedic Shakespearean dialogues and narratives have been "transformed, via the adaptors’ brain text conversion, into a threefold combination of singing, reciting, and dancing." English summary, 163.

Examines significance of golden masks from Katherine’s vision in 4.2 of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s All Is True (Henry VIII). Contextualizes use gilt masks within English medieval drama and pageantry, where gilt masks were first used to represent God the Father and Jesus and later had their meanings revised to mean distortion of both human and Godly presence. Argues Fletcher and Shakespeare incorporate both meanings golden masks to disrupt traditional temporalities and historicism, evidenced by play’s “exposing the fraudulence of Archbishop Cranmer’s famous prophecy in the play’s final scene as well as Henry’s futile adherence to genealogical succession and chronological linearity.”

Interrogates Shakespeare’s apparent universality, framing inquiry by examining cultural assumptions that underpinned “Shakespeare’s American Tour” in 2016, in which host sites across United States (libraries, museums, and universities) exhibited 18 copies of First Folio to commemorate four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Notes that exhibitions were aimed at diverse audiences but upheld interpretations of Shakespeare that privilege white perspectives. Focuses particularly on Latinx audiences engagement or lack of engagement with Folio and Shakespeare during Shakespeare’s American Tour.

Explores "the political entailments of aesthetics" with respect to Merchant of Venice, arguing play has historically served as ground for politically-minded literary criticism to define itself against older aethestic forms of literary criticism.  

Discusses economy and law in Merchant of Venice in relation to its “aesthetics consciousness.”  Argues that Merchant aestheticizes “meaning, identity, human bonds” which are conceived in “exchange and indebtedness.”

Reassesses character of cross-dressed page in early modern drama, particularly that of Viola in Twelfth Night, Bellario in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Philaster, and Veramour in Nathan Field, John Fletcher, and Philip Massinger's Honest Man's Fortune. Applies transgender theory to figure of cross-dressed page in order to discuss "the 'real' and its relationship to deception, how imitation constitutes gender, the prosthetic materiality of gender, and the role of narrativization in constructing gender" and "seeks to define early trans identities beyond violence and exposure."

Surveys reading, translation, and adapation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in China. Offers insight into Shakespeare’s influence on modern Chinese poetry. English summary, online.

Explores how two Hamlet’s sources, Saxo Grammaticus’s Revenge of Amleth (c. 1150) and its 1572 translation by François de Belleforest’s, connect politics and race, linking liberty with racial purity and tyranny and slavery with racial defilement. Argues that sources influenced racial hierarchies and representation of white subjectivity  in Hamlet.