Ruben Espinosa is Professor of English at Arizona State University and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). He is the author of Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (2021), Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare’s England (2011), editor of Shakespeare/Skin (2024), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Immigration (2014). His work has appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, and New Literary History, among other journals and collections. He is the President of the Shakespeare Association of America (2024-2026), and he serves on the Editorial Boards of Shakespeare Quarterly, Palgrave’s “Early Modern Cultural Studies” series, and on the Executive Board of RaceB4Race. He is currently at work on his next monograph, Shakespeare on the Border: Language, Legitimacy and La Frontera, which examines how perceptions of legitimacy for U.S. Latinxs often influence the barriers and bridges that define the intersections between Shakespeare and Chicanx culture.