Dalton Greene

Dalton Greene (he/him) is a PhD candidate in English and a Flagship Fellow in the Graduate School at the University of Maryland. His research examines early English drama through the lenses of premodern critical race and disability studies, with particular attention to Shakespeare, histories of performance and reception, and the relationship between bodily difference, punishment, and the formation of racial thought. His work has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Fulbright Foundation in Greece, and The Ohio State University's Digital Media and Composition Institute, and his writing has been published by Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press.

Alongside his research, Dalton is committed to inclusive, equitable pedagogy and digital and public-facing humanities methods. His teaching has been recognized with the University of Maryland Academic Writing Program Award for Social Justice and Antiracist Teaching and the English Department's James A. Robinson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He has also contributed to public humanities initiatives as a research assistant for the Folger Shakespeare Library's 2026 exhibition To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare and as a Literary Apprentice with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC.   

Dalton comes to UMD by way of West Virginia, his home state, then Minnesota, where he obtained his BA, then England, where he studied abroad, then Greece, where he worked as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. After this circuitous route, he’s quite pleased to be back in the general mid-Atlantic region for the next few years.