David has just returned from Berlin and Vancouver, where he attended two conferences, those of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) and the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA). In Berlin, at the RSA, he gave a paper called "Shakespeare at Home, or How Global is Shakespeare Really?" as part of a panel on Global Shakespeare with Catherine Schaap Williams (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Emily Bartels (Rutgers University). The paper can be accessed here. In Vancouver, at the SAA, David was a member of a seminar on Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, audited, amongst other things, a seminar on Shakespearean adaptation and appropriation that included Global Shakespeare Distinguished Fulbright Fellow, Alexa Huang.

MA in Global Shakespeare student Marianne Hewitt has won a fully funded PhD place at Queen's University Belfast for her research title: The Function of Shakespeare in Post Dictatorship Argentina, to be supervised by leading Shakespeare Professor Mark Thornton Burnett. Congratulations Mia!

Preti has won a Gatehouse Press- New Fictions Prize and will soon have a novella in the world! See press announcement here.