Patrick Aaron Harris

Patrick Aaron Harris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina's College of Arts and Sciences. Specializing in Shakespeare & early modern drama, contemporary performance, and critical race studies, his research explores racialized and spatial dynamics in Shakespearean adaptations and Renaissance drama.

• PhD, University of Texas at Austin (2022)
• MLitt/MFA, Mary Baldwin University (2016)
• BA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010)

His work interrogates the intersection of race, place, and anti-Black exclusion in Shakespearean contexts, as well as the evolution of revenge tragedy conventions in Jacobean drama. A forthcoming book, Siteless Substances, synthesizes these themes through analyses of Shakespeare's plays and their diasporic adaptations.

Recent publications include genre analysis of The Bloody Brother, affect theory in Spenserian interpretation, and explorations of modern counterculture in Shakespearean performance. His scholarship emphasizes expanding canonical frameworks in Renaissance drama anthologies and curricula.