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Michele Osherow
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Michele Osherow is Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Scholars Program, and Associate Director of UMBC's Dresher Center for the Humanities. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was awarded the Alice B. Geyer Dissertation Prize. Areas of specialization include Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, Biblical Literature, Jewish American Literature, Dramatic Literature, and Women's Studies. Dr. Osherow has extensive experience in professional theatre and will serve as Resident Dramaturg at the Folger Theatre in Washington this year. Her publications include the forthcoming article "Crafting Queens: Early Modern Readings of Esther" which will appear in Queens and Power in Early Modern Europe (Nebraska UP), and other works such as "She is in the right: Biblical Maternity in All's Well that Ends Well" in Routledge's Accents on Shakespeare Series, and "'Give ear o' princes': Deborah, Elizabeth, and the Right Word," in Explorations in Renaissance Culture. Her book Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England is forthcoming from Ashgate Press. She is co-writing a text on approaches to Shakespeare in modern performance and is currently researching contemporary American productions of Shakespeare’s problem plays.
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