Wendy Lennon is a doctoral researcher at the Shakespeare Institute working across history, literature and race. Her first academic book, Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy: Early Modern Colonialism to the Windrush is to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2023 and she has a chapter titled ‘Skin/Pedagogy’ forthcoming in an Arden Bloomsbury collection. Lennon reviews for the journal Shakespeare and the TLS amongst others. She is a member of the BSA’s education committee, a Fellow of the English Association and is on the editorial board for the journal English. The international ‘Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy’ education initiative was founded by Wendy in 2019, and she project managed an ERC funded program at the University of Oxford which received the 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation and Engagement award. Following her undergraduate English degree at Royal Holloway, University of London and University of Exeter PGCE, Wendy was an English teacher for a decade. Inspired by her mother’s Windrush migration, her academic work, her mixed-race heritage and childhood on the English coast, Lennon is developing a narrative nonfiction work exploring Shakespeare, race, and the sea. Wendy lives in North Devon.
