Megan Snell

Research and Teaching Interests

Drama, theatre history, early modern literature, performance studies, adaptation, film

Selected Publications

“Performing Babies and the Properties of Race and Ethnicity.” Shakespeare 19, no. 1 (2023): 93-107.

“Shakespeare’s Babies: ‘Things to Come at Large.’” In Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance, edited by Brett Gamboa and Lawrence Switzky, 79-90. New York: Routledge, 2020.

“Chaucer’s Jailer’s Daughter: Character and Source in The Two Noble Kinsmen.” Shakespeare Quarterly 69, no. 1 (2018): 35-56.

Book Reviews

Review of Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race, Noémie Ndiaye, Theatre History Studies 44 (2025). (Forthcoming)

Review of Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, James Shapiro, Phi Beta Kappa: The Key Reporter (2016).

Review of Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England, Ramie Targoff, Phi Beta Kappa: The Key Reporter (2015).

Review of Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia, Simon C. Estok, E3W Review of Books (2014).

Selected Conference Activity

“Local Giants and Ecological Scale in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem” in “Performing Wilderness” working group, American Society for Theatre Research, Seattle, WA, November 2024

“The Sound of Silence: Dumb Shows and Voice” in “Shakespeare and Voice” seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, Portland, OR, April 2024

“No Maid’s Land: Structures of a Title in Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Maid’s Tragedy” in “Early Modern Architecture” seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, Jacksonville, FL, April 2022

“Medieval Drama, Herod, and Titus Andronicus” in “Early Drama and Performance” seminar, Shakespeare Assoc. of America Annual Meeting (remote), April 2020

“‘Racial Mattering,’ Infants, and the Royal Shakespeare Company” in “Shakespeare, Race, and Nation: Shakespeare Performance and the UK” seminar, British Shakespeare Assoc. Conference, Swansea, July 2019

“‘Growth Untried’: Dramatic Infants and Temporal Scope,” Modern Language Assoc. Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019

“Fabric, Prams, and Jell-O: The Metonymy of Baby-Props,” Modern Language Assoc. Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019

“Puppetry and Popery in Marlowe,” Marlowe Society of America International Conference, Wittenberg, Germany, July 2018

“Object Lessons from Dramatic Object-Persons,” in “Object Lessons in Renaissance Personhood” seminar, Shakespeare Assoc. of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 2018

“Pythagoras’ Celestial Proportions and the Sovereign Moon of Endymion,” in “Cosmological Bodies” seminar, Shakespeare Assoc. of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 2017

Selected Professional Experiences and Accomplishments

Advanced Studies in England: summer faculty instructor for “Legends of the Round Table,” taught in Bath, UK, 2024

Assistant Professor of English, Wells College, 2021-24

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in British Literature and Culture, Utah State University, 2020-2021

The University of Texas at Austin: University Graduate School Continuing Fellowship; annual Outstanding Assistant Instructor Award, Dept. of English; annual Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Dept. of English

Colgate University: Phi Beta Kappa; High Honors in English; High Distinction in the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum