Ruben Espinosa is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is the author of Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (2021), Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare’s England (2011), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Immigration (2014). He is Vice President of the Shakespeare Association of America, and his edited collection, Shakespeare/Skin: Contemporary Readings in Skin Studies and Theoretical Discourse is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Publishing (July 2024). He is currently at work on his next monograph, Shakespeare on the Border: Language, Legitimacy and La Frontera.