Laura B. Turchi is a teacher educator and educational researcher specializing in English Language Arts. Her anthology Design and Discomfort: Teaching Shakespeare and Race is expected July 2025 from ACMRS press. She authored Teaching Shakespeare with Interactive Editions (Cambridge Elements 2023) and Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centered Approach (Bloomsbury Arden 2016) with Ayanna Thompson. She is co-editor of Engaging Shakespeare, a new pedagogically focused series for the Arden Shakespeare. As a Clinical Professor in English at ASU, she is curriculum director for “RaceB4Race: Modeling a New Scholarly Community” at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. This includes Dr. Turchi’s development, piloting, and dissemination of online curricula for teaching premodern critical race scholarship on Throughlines.org. Dr. Turchi co-directs the Shakespeare and Social Justice Project at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, funded by the US Department of Education’s Assistance in Arts Education. Previously Dr. Turchi served on the faculty of the University of Houston and earlier, in the English Department at Arizona State University, she was the Director of The Teaching Foundations Project, creating rigorous, inquiry-based, content-rich lower-division/general studies courses for future teachers. For twelve years Dr. Turchi chaired the Education Department at Warren Wilson College, in Asheville, NC. She began her career teaching secondary English Language Arts in Tucson, AZ and Naperville, IL.