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Biography

Mario DiGangi

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University

Biography

Mario DiGangi (B.A., M.A., Ph.D, Columbia University), is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Prior to Lehman College, he taught at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. He has lectured at Harvard; Yale; UCLA; the University of Massachusetts; the University of Texas, Austin; the University of Mississippi; the University of Pennsylvania; and the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the editorial board of the Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia and served as the President of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2016. He is the author of five books, The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama (Cambridge, 1997), The Winter’s Tale: Texts and Contexts (Bedford, 2004), Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley (Pennsylvania, 2011), The Winter’s Tale: Language and Writing (2022), and Shakespeare and Queer Studies (Oxford, 2025). He is the editor, with Amanda Bailey, of Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts: Politics, Ecologies, Form (Palgrave, 2017).

Recent Publications

“The Critical Backstory, 1611-2000,” The Winter’s Tale: A Critical Reader, ed. Todd Andrew Borlik and Peter Kirwan (Arden Shakespeare, 2025), 19-45.

“Hermione’s Wrinkles,” Shakespeare/Skin, ed. Ruben Espinosa, Arden Critical Intersections (Arden Shakespeare, 2024), 97-118.

“Shakespeare, Race, and Queer Studies,” The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), 154-70.

“Male Beauty, Same-Sex Desire, and Race in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Coriolanus,” Playing Shakespeare’s Beautiful People, ed. Louis Fantasia (Peter Lang, 2023), 33-48.

“Branded with Baseness: Bastardy and Race in King Lear,” Race and/as Affect in Early Modern English Literature, ed. Carol Mejia LaPerle (ACMRS, 2022), 119-135.

“Early Modern Bodies that Matter,” The Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World, ed. Kim Coles and Eve Keller (Routledge, 2019), 33-45.