Books by Katherine Hennessey

Katherine Hennessey is currently a Moore Institute Visiting Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. From 2009 to 2014 she lived in Sana'a, researching the history of Yemeni theatre, after which she held a Global Shakespeare research fellowship at the University of Warwick and Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula (New York: Palgrave, 2017). Starting January 2017, she will be an Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Kuwait. Margaret Litvin is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature and founding director of Middle East and North Africa Studies at Boston University. She is the author of Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost (Princeton, 2011) and articles and reviews in Performing Arts Journal, Journal of Arabic Literature, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Theatre Research International, Arab Stages and several Shakespeare journals. Her current research explores the literary legacies of Arab-Russian and Arab-Soviet cultural ties.