Peter Erickson

Independent scholar

November–January 2005

Peter Erickson is author of Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves (Berkeley, 1991) and Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama (Berkeley, 1985). He also co-edited Shakespeare's Rough Magic (Newark, 1985) and Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England (Philadelphia, 2000). Currently he is working on two book projects: Shakespeare Say: Allure of Allusion in Contemporary Culture and Haply for I Am Black: Racial Iconographies in Early Modern Drama and Visual Art, and his fellowship at the Clark will enable him to advance one aspect of the first of these projects, centered on Derek Walcott and Fred Wilson.