PhD Candidate

Biography

Sara Creel is a doctoral candidate in Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies in the Department of English, and she is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Cinema Studies. She received both her BA in English and her MA in English from Mississippi State University. Her research centers primarily around Shakespeare and adaptation and is concerned with the various ways that we rewrite and remake Shakespeare for our contemporary moment. She is currently working on her dissertation, which looks at how Shakespeare is adapted in online spaces of fandom (specifically, in works of fanfiction) and places these works in conversation with the films of Shakespearean auteurs. In doing so, the project aims to discover what these online spaces allow Shakespeare's work to do or achieve that cinema does not (or cannot) and what this reveals to us about how the relationships between Shakespeare, author, and audience function in the age of new media.