Biography

Gemma Kate Allred holds degrees from the Shakespeare Institute at The University of Birmingham, Sheffield University, The College of Law, London Business School, and the Open University, and is currently a Doctoral Researcher with the University of Neuchatel. Her doctoral work examines how Shakespeare in performance is sold and marketed. Her co-edited volume Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation, eds. Gemma Kate Allred, Benjamin Broadribb and Erin Sullivan, was published by Bloomsbury Arden in July 2022 and has a chapter on Lockdown Loves Labours Lost in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama: New Medial Challenges of Visualization and Adaptation. Her examination of celebrity and Shakespeare: ‘“Who’s There?” Britain’s Twenty-First-Century Obsession with Celebrity Hamlet (2008-2018)’ was published in Shakespeare Survey 73 (2020). Gemma contributed a chapter on marketing Emilia for the Notelets of Filth: An Emilia Companion Reader (Routledge 2023). She also writes on biofiction and has contributed a chapter on the biofictional representation of Shakespeare on the modern stage in the  Bloomsbury Arden collection: Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen (Eds. Edel Semple and Ronan Hatfull) and has a chapter on biofictional representations of Emilia Lanier in the forthcoming Biofiction Handbook for Palgrave.

Teaching

2024: Literature and Writing Workshops, Université de Neuchâtel (poetry, critical theory and the novel).

2023: Literature and Writing Workshops, Université de Neuchâtel (Shakespeare, short stories, essays and speeches).

2022: Developed and taught BA Seminar:  Early Modern Literature: Representing Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Women: Poetry, Drama, Prose for Université de Neuchâtel.

2021: Developed and taught BA Seminar: “Shakespeare in Performance” for Université de Fribourg.

2020: Developed and taught BA Seminar: “When Early Modern Women Talk Back: Reframing the Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s Sonnets” for Université de Neuchâtel.

2020: Literature and Writing Workshops, Université de Neuchâtel (Shakespeare, short stories, essays and speeches).

2020: Literature and Writing Workshops, Université de Neuchâtel (poetry, critical theory and the novel).

2020: Teaching Assistant, Université de Neuchâtel, Shakespeare and Performance BA Seminar.

2019: Literature and Writing Workshops, Université de Neuchâtel (poetry, critical theory and the novel).

Guest Speaker

Dec 2024: Led BA Seminar, University of Zurich, ‘Lockdown Dreams: Emotion, Immersion and Tangible Magic’.

May 2024: Guest Lecture for the Introduction to Literature in English module, Université de Neuchâtel, Heart of Darkness and Psychoanalytic Criticism

Apr 2021: Guest Lecture, Exeter University, ‘Emilia: When Early Modern Women Talk Back’.

Apr 2021: Led BA Seminar, Syracuse University, Shakespeare and Performance, ‘Lockdown Shakespeare’.

May 2020: Led Post-graduate Workshop, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, ‘Lockdown Shakespeare’.

Apr 2020: Led BA Seminar, Université de Neuchâtel, Shakespeare and Performance, ‘Lockdown Shakespeare’.

Mar 2020: Led BA Seminar, Université de Neuchâtel, Shakespeare and Performance, ‘Staging Hamlet’.

Nov 2019: Guest Lecture for the Introduction to Literature in English module, Université de Neuchâtel, ‘To Be or Not To Be: Is that the Question?’.

Publications

List of publications.