Kim Solga is Professor of Theatre Studies in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University. Kim’s research focuses on contemporary feminist and queer performance on Turtle Island (specifically, on the lands called Canada), as well as on contemporary reverberations of Shakespeare and other early modern colonial inheritances on our stages. Her most recent book is Women Making Shakespeare in the 21st Century, which appeared in this Elements series in 2024. Kim’s other books include: Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance (2009), Theatre and Feminism (2015), Theory for Theatre Studies: Space (2021), Performance and the City and Performance and the Global City (with DJ Hopkins and Shelley Orr, 2009 and 2013), and A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age (2018). She is currently co-leading a development project called “Making Decolonial Shakespeare,” which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Mallarika Sinha Roy is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She received her D.Phil (PhD) from University of Oxford in 2008. Her published books are Gender and Radical Politics in India: Magic Moments of Naxalbari (1967-1975) (2011), Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India (2024), Feminist Frames: Gender, Space and Violence in India (2025). Her recent publications are essays in peer-reviewed journals like Theatre Research International, South Asian History and Culture, Feminist Review, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Contemporary South Asia, Feminism and Psychology, and Journal of South Asian Development. She has been Co-PI in international collaborative academic projects with Warwick University, University of Liverpool and University of Cambridge funded by the British Academy and Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK. She has also been a bilingual contributor to a range of cultural press in India.

Advisory Board:

Nobuko Anan, Kansai University, Japan

Awo Mana Asiedu, University of Ghana

Ana Bernstein, Federal University of the State of Rio d Janeiro – UNIRIO

Elin Diamond, Rutgers, USA

Bishnupriya Dutt, JNU, India

Penny Farfan, University of Calgary, Canada

Lesley Ferris, Ohio State University, USA

Lisa FitzPatrick, University of Ulster

Lynette Goddard, Royal Holloway, University of London

Sarah Gorman, Roehampton University, UK

Aoife Monks, Queen Mary, London University, UK

Kim Solga, Western University, Canada

Denise Varney, University of Melbourne, Australia