Katherine Hennessey
Katherine Hennessey currently holds a Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Since 2017, she has worked at the American University of Kuwait, serving as an Assistant Professor of English as well as Assistant Dean for Curriculum.
Her scholarship focuses on world theatre, in particular the performing arts in Ireland and the Arabian Peninsula. She has a special interest in global performances and adaptations of Shakespeare.
She completed her undergraduate studies in Comparative Literature at Franklin and Marshall College, where she was awarded F&M's prestigious Williamson Medal. Her graduate degrees--a PhD in English and Irish Studies, a BA in Italian Language and Literature, and a BA in 20th Century British and Irish Literature--are from the University of Notre Dame.
She has held academic appointments at Bethlehem University on the Palestinian West Bank and Sana'a University in Yemen, as well as a Global Shakespeare Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick and Queen Mary University of London, and a Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
Hennessey is the author of 'Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula' (Palgrave 2018), and of numerous articles on theatre in Yemen and the Gulf. She is co-editor, with Margaret Litvin, of 'Shakespeare & the Arab World' (Berghahn 2019), and the translator of Wajdi Al-Ahdal's 'A Crime on Restaurant Street,' the first Yemeni play ever to appear in English.
She has also directed a short film entitled 'Shakespeare in Yemen,' which was screened in June 2018 at the Signature Theatre in New York City and at the 2018 MESA FilmFest, and which can be viewed on MIT's Global Shakespeares website.
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded her a year-long fellowship to support the writing of her current book, Theatre on the Arabian Peninsula.
Since 2017, she has worked at the American University of Kuwait, serving as an Assistant Professor of English as well as Assistant Dean for Curriculum.
Her scholarship focuses on world theatre, in particular the performing arts in Ireland and the Arabian Peninsula. She has a special interest in global performances and adaptations of Shakespeare.
She completed her undergraduate studies in Comparative Literature at Franklin and Marshall College, where she was awarded F&M's prestigious Williamson Medal. Her graduate degrees--a PhD in English and Irish Studies, a BA in Italian Language and Literature, and a BA in 20th Century British and Irish Literature--are from the University of Notre Dame.
She has held academic appointments at Bethlehem University on the Palestinian West Bank and Sana'a University in Yemen, as well as a Global Shakespeare Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick and Queen Mary University of London, and a Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
Hennessey is the author of 'Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula' (Palgrave 2018), and of numerous articles on theatre in Yemen and the Gulf. She is co-editor, with Margaret Litvin, of 'Shakespeare & the Arab World' (Berghahn 2019), and the translator of Wajdi Al-Ahdal's 'A Crime on Restaurant Street,' the first Yemeni play ever to appear in English.
She has also directed a short film entitled 'Shakespeare in Yemen,' which was screened in June 2018 at the Signature Theatre in New York City and at the 2018 MESA FilmFest, and which can be viewed on MIT's Global Shakespeares website.
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded her a year-long fellowship to support the writing of her current book, Theatre on the Arabian Peninsula.
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