Dalton Greene

Dalton Greene (he/him) is a PhD student with research interests in early modern drama and performance history. His undergraduate thesis explored depictions of the Moor on the seventeenth-century stage, interrogating how racial and national biases intersected at this historical moment to produce a particularly harmful image. His work attends to the ways dramatic texts from the period lay the foundations for contemporary conceptions of race, gender, and (dis)ability in the Anglophone world. In other words, he thinks a lot about the question: why does Shakespeare matter today? In addition to this research, he is committed to exploring inclusive, equitable pedagogies and digital and public-facing methods for humanities scholarship. 

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.