Professor Judith Norman & Professor Katherine Gillen: A discussion about Academic Freedom, Palestine and ongoing conflict in the Middle East, Trump's Presidency, and dissolving the Dep. of Education.

Episode # 18Bio - Professor Judith Norman Judith Norman has been engaged with community organizing for 20 years. She has worked with movements for economic justice, anti-militarization,educational justice, decarceration, and the liberation of Palestine. The latter is closest to her heart, and she has worked with Jewish Voice for Peace and San Antonio for Justice in Palestine. She is a Murchison DistinguishedProfessor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Trinity University. The opinions she expresses are her own, and do not represent her employer or any of the organizations with which she is affiliated***********************************************************************************************************Bio – Professor Katherine GillenKatherine Gillen is Professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. She is the author of Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity, and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare’s Stage (EUP, 2017) and several essays on race, gender, and economics in early modern drama and Shakespeare appropriation. She is working on a monograph tentatively titled Shakespeare’s Racial Classicism: Whiteness, Slavery, and Humanism, which examines Shakespeare’s use of classical sources within the context of emerging racial capitalism. With Kathryn Vomero Santos and Adrianna M. Santos, she co-founded the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, which has received funding from the Mellon Foundation and the NEH.