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About Pamela Brown
If it's odd and unexpected and touches on early modern gender, I am drawn to it. I've written and taught about shrews on top, virtuosic madwomen, and anti-masculinist jests, as well as itinerant Italian divas and performing dwarfs. I recently retired from the University of Connecticut, where I was Professor of English, but I continue to write and speak in my field. In 2022 Oxford published my monograph The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata. With Julie Campbell and Eric Nicholson, I edited and translated Isabella Andreini's Lovers' Debates for the Stage, The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (2022). Other publications include Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England; As You Like It: Texts and Contexts (co-authored with Jean E. Howard); and Women Players in England 1500-1650: Beyond the All-Male Stage (co-edited with Peter Parolin). I am a founding member of Theater Without Borders, a working group of scholars of early modern transnational drama. To learn more about my book The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage, listen to Jana Byers' interview with me here
"The fox knows many things, the hedgehog one big thing." As a writer I consider myself a fox, but I am in awe of hedgehogs. Among the authors I interview, you'll meet both kinds.
NBN Episodes hosted by Pamela:
July 4, 2025
Women, Art, Freedom
Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran offers an insightful look at the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran, sparked by the t…
June 7, 2025
Letters
Isabella Andreini, Letters, ed. and trans. Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina. The Other Voice in Early Modern…
January 3, 2025
Shakespeare Unlearned
Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity (Oxford UP, 2024) dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early…
December 22, 2024
Sweet Tooth and Other Stories
Queerness, labels, and allyship are central themes in this moving collection of stories set in Turkey, where Middle Eastern and Euro-American expressi…