Nicole Sheriko
Nicole Sheriko is assistant professor of English at Yale. She researches and teaches Renaissance performance culture, drawing on literary studies as well as theater history, art history, performance studies, and archives of material culture. She writes about theater of all kinds from cycle, civic, court, and commercial drama to processional performance and puppetry. Recent publications have taken up disability and the history of clowning, Othello and the medieval Vice figure, Shakespeare’s and Ben Jonson’s puppet play, monsters and stage machinery, and nineteenth century toy theater. She is also interested in the afterlives of early modern drama, especially the legacies of Shakespeare.
She is currently completing a book about early English puppetry’s forms of performance interactivity and a volume of essays on Early European Puppetry Studies as a field. Her recent work has appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, Studies in English Literature, and Shakespeare Studies, and won awards from SAA, ASTR, and UNIMA-USA, the American branch of the world’s largest puppetry organization.
Before coming to Yale she was an ACLS Dissertation Fellow at Rutgers and the A H Lloyd Junior Research Fellow in English at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge. At Yale she teaches Shakespeare as well as other drama and premodern literature.