Laura Turchi is a teacher educator specializing in English Language Arts. She co-authored Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centered Approach (Bloomsbury/Arden) with Ayanna Thompson and recently completed Teaching Shakespeare with Interactive Editions (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press Elements). She is Clinical Professor in English at Arizona State University, where she is curriculum director for “RaceB4Race: Sustaining, Building, Innovating” at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Dr. Turchi is also co-directing the DOE-funded Shakespeare and Social Justice Project at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. 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.