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Erika T. Lin is an Associate Professor of English, Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She specializes in early modern English theatre, focusing on embodied performance, affect, and spectacle. Her research integrates literature, social history, visual culture studies, and anthropology. Lin holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She has authored Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance and co-edited Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England. Lin’s work explores festive practices like May Games and morris dances, tracing their evolution into institutional theatre.
Her research interests include medieval drama, gender/sexuality studies, and race in academia. Lin advises Ph.D. students on diverse topics like physics, food, and ritual performance. She teaches courses on archival methods and festive performance. Lin has held roles at Theatre Survey and the Shakespeare Association of America, and collaborates with artists in NYC. Awards include the David Bevington Award (2013) and a Folger Shakespeare Library Mellon Fellowship. Her current project Seasonal Festivity and Commercial Performance in Early Modern England examines holiday rituals’ impact on theatre development.
