Francesca T. Royster is Professor of English at DePaul University, where she teaches courses in Shakespeare Studies, Performance Studies, Critical Race theory, Black Feminisms, Gender, Queer Theory and African American Studies. She received her PhD in English from University of California, Berkeley in 1995. Her book, Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (University of Michigan Press, 2013), explores black musical performances of sexual outsiders, including Michael Jackson, Grace Jones and Meshell Ndegeocello. She is also the author of Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon (Palgrave/MacMillan in 2003) as well as numerous book chapters and scholarlyessays, including those in Solo/Black/Woman, edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera, Silence, Feminism and Power, edited by Sheena Malhotra and Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, Performance Research International, Women in Performance, and others.
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