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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 serves as Resident Dramaturg at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC.
Her publications include "Crafting Queens: Early Modern Readings of Esther," in Queens and Power in Early Modern Europe (Nebraska UP), "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 was newly released by Ashgate Publishing Company. She is co-writing a text with theatre director Aaron Posner on staging Shakespeare and is currently researching contemporary American productions of Shakespeare for the volume How We Make Shakespeare Mean, co-authored with Gary Waller (SUNY Purchase).
