"White Doublets, Black Vizards: Race at Work in Shakespeare’s Henriad.” Berlin Lecture with Ari Friedlander (University of Mississippi)

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Ari Friedlander is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2011). His research interests include Early Modern English literature and culture, histories of gender, sexuality, and social status, queer theory, queer historiography, and disability studies.

His most recent work includes Rogue Sexuality: The Erotics of Social Status in Early Modern England (Oxford UP, 2025), and co-editing a special issue of JEMCS: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies entitled “Desiring History and Historicizing Desire,” (Volume 16, Number 2, Spring 2016). He has also written “Roguery and Reproduction in The Winter’s Tale,” for A Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, Race, ed. Valerie Traub (Oxford UP, 2016), and “Mastery, Masculinity, and Sexual Cozening in Ben Jonson’s Epicoene,” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 53.2 (Spring 2013).

This lecture is held in honor of the late Normand Berlin, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests ranged broadly, from Shakespeare to Eugene O'Neill. His publications include O'Neill's Shakespeare and The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy. For many years he taught a highly-attended community class at the Center on Shakespeare.