Diplomas/Degrees
Diplomas/Degrees
Ph.D. , The CUNY Graduate Center (2009)
BA (hons), University of Warwick (1997)
Specialization/Interests
Specialization/Interests
Renaissance literature
Shakespeare
Early modern drama in performance
Performance theory
Appropriation theory
Twentieth century British drama
Digital cultures
Fan theory
New Media
Research Interests
Research Interests
Digital media
Performance theory
Shakespeare in performance
Theatre and popular culture
Twentieth century British theatre
Digital Theatre
Fan Studies
International Experience
International Experience
Literary Cities Study Abroad Courses
2017 - Dublin, Ireland
2019 - York and London, United Kingdom
Books
Books
Fazel, Valerie M. and Louise Geddes. The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis. Routledge. 2022
Fazel, Valerie M. and Louise Geddes, eds. Variable Objects: Speculative Shakespeare Appropriation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2021
Fazel, Valerie and Louise Geddes, eds. The Shakespeare User: Cultural and Critical Appropriation in the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. 2017.
Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe. Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2017.
Chapters
Chapters
“Some rare noteworthy object in thy travel”: Digital Kitsch and Shakespeare Cultural Memory.” Co-authored with Valerie M. Fazel for Shakespeare and Tourism. Valerie Clayman Pye and Robert Ormsby, eds. Routledge, 2022.
“And We Will Ship Him Hence”: Affective Fandom and the Future of Shakespeare Studies.” Co-authored with Valerie M. Fazel. The Arden Companion to Shakespeare and Adaptation. Stephen O’Neill and Diana E. Henderson, eds. London: Bloomsbury. 2022.
“The Thing Itself: Performance and the Celebrity Text.” Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2021. 210-229.
“Imagined Theatres: Why Fan Audiences Matter.” Shakespeare Audiences. Matteo Pangallo and Peter Kirwan, eds. London: Routledge. 2021. 166-179.
“There Lies the Substance”: Rediscovering Richard in Geek Culture.” Coauthored with Valerie M. Fazel for Geek Shakespeare. Peter Holland and A.J. Hartley, eds. Routledge. 2020.
“Some Tweeting Cleopatra: Crossing Borders on and Off the Shakespearean Stage.” The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare Global Appropriation. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson, eds. Routledge. 2019.
"“Truly, and very notably discharg’d”: The Metamorphosis of Pyramus and Thisbe and the Place of Appropriation on the Early Modern Stage" in Ovid and Adaptation in Early English Theater, Lisa S. Starks, ed. Edinburgh University Press. 2017.
Articles
Articles
Celebrity Plays and Embodied Fidelity, Shakespeare (2023). DOI:
Louise Geddes and Vanessa I. Corredera "A Fair House built on another man's ground": Public Shakespeare at Seneca Village. Shakespeare Bulletin, 41, no.4 (2023): 579-600. DOI:
Taylor Mac’s Gary and Queer Failure in Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare Survey 76: Digital and Virtual Shakespeare, 37–49. Shakespeare Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2023). doi:10.1017/9781009392761.014.
"This Bleeding Country of Old Men: Scriptive Shakespeare and Howard Brenton’s Measure for Measure." Shakespeare Bulletin 40, no. 2 (2022): 195-214.
"Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism." Shakespeare Survey 71 (2018).
Louise Geddes and Valerie Fazel (2016), "." Shakespeare, 12.3, (2016): 274-86.
"A Mad Art, My Masters: Theatre and Usable Culture in Late Twentieth Century Britain." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 17.1 (2015).
""Playing No Part But Pyramus": Restructuring the Clown in A Midsummer Night's Dream." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 28, (2015): 70-85.
"." Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies (2013).
"Know that I, Ringo the Drummer Am”: Shakespeare, YouTube and the Limits of Performance." Shakespeare Bulletin, 30.3 (2012): 299-318.
"." This Rough Magic (2010).
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
(2018) Chair, "Speculative Shakespeares." Shakespeare Association of America annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
(2017) Co-Convener, "Shakespearean Performance Research Group." American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA.
(2018) Chair, "Shakespearean Fandom in the Digital Age." Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
(2016). "Unlearning Shakespeare Studies." Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
(2016). Chair, "Socialist Shakespeares." World Shakespeare Congress. Stratford and London, United Kingdom.
(2015). O Brave New Text: The Political Autonomy of Shakespearean Adaptation. Appropriation in the Age of Global Shakespeare. University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
(2015). "Bloody Poetry: Measure for Measure in the Hands of Howard Brenton." Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
(2014). ""Il Faut du Sang: The Semiotics of Violence on the Elizabethan Stage." American Society for Theatre Research. Baltimore, MD.
(2014). "Margaret Thatcher and the Performance of Early Modern England." Blackfriars Annual Conference. American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, VA.
(2014). Chair, “Theorizing the Digital Archive.” Shakespeare Association of America. St. Louis, MO.
(2013). "The Ambassadors: Pyramus and Thisbe in Nineteenth-Century America." Shakespeare Association of America. Boston, MA.
(2012). "Middleton, Barker and the Bite of the Right." Shakespeare Association of America. Boston, MA.
(2011). Chair, “Marlowe in Performance.” North East modern Language Association of America. Boston, MA.
(2010). Playing No Part But Pyramus: Bottom and the Early Modern Clown. In Shakespeare Association of America. Chicago, IL.
(2010). Bieber and the Bard: Shakespeare and Tween Culture. In North East Modern Language Association of America. New Brunswick, NJ.
(2009). "Know that I, Ringo, the drummer, am": Shakespeare and The Beatles." Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. Columbus, OH.
(2009). "Standing Least In Thy Control’: Shakespeare’s Roman Plays and the Medieval Martyr Tradition." Shakespeare Association of America. San Diego, CA.
(2008). "His Sacred Blood”: The Rich Legacy of the Body in Julius Caesar." Modern Language Association of America. San Francisco, CA.
Invited Presentations
Invited Presentations
"The Shakespeare Fandom." The Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington, DC.
(2016, October). Know that I, One Ringo the Drummer Am: The Beatles, Shakespeare, and the Rise of Pop Culture. Fairleigh Dickinson University Shakespeare Colloquium, Teaneck, NJ.
(2015, February). Shakespearean Fan Fiction: New Frontiers of Old Texts. Suffolk County Community College Honors Program, Suffolk County Community College, NY.
Professional Activities
Professional Activities
General Editor, .
Editorial Board Member. .
University Service
University Service
Chair, Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Standards.
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