Welcome, listeners, to the fourth episode of season 3, The Genre-l Idea! Today I, host Annabelle Higgins, will be chatting problem plays with Dr Carla Della Gatta.

In this episode, we discuss Frederick Boas’ initial definition, social critique onstage and what kind of problems make a problem play.

Carla Della Gatta is a theatre historian and performance theorist whose research focuses on ethnicity, aurality, and gender and sexuality. She is currently Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University, where she teaches Critical Theory, Shakespeare, Latinx theatre, and LGBTQ theatre. She co-edited Shakespeare and Latinidad, a collection of essays and interviews with twenty-five contributors, and her monograph, Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater is open access (free to download!) with University of Michigan Press. She built and maintains the archive of Latinx theatrical adaptation, LatinxShakespeares.Org, which includes over 275 productions and adaptations of Shakespeare and other canonical works.

You can find Carla on Twitter at @CarlaDellaGatta.

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