jw74@princeton.edu
Josephine Wang is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Princeton. Her work in Renaissance and Early Modern studies engages with the fields of premodern critical race studies and phenomenology. Her recent research interests in early modern stagecraft include performance prosthetics, the genderqueer Christs of medieval play cycles, and racial plasticity in English masques.
Wang has taught or will teach “Children’s Literature,” “Rewriting the World: Literatures in English, 1350-1850,” and “Shakespeare Toward Hamlet” at Princeton University. She has also taught “Introduction to Drama: Adaptation and Experiment” at East Jersey State Prison, with the Prison Teaching Initiative at Princeton University and Raritan Valley Community College. She has served as co-chair of the Renaissance Colloquium and of an IHUM reading group, Theatricality After Theater. Wang is currently a managing editor for The Spenser Review. She is also a recipient of the Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship and Award, through which she conducted research abroad for the 2024-25 year, in England.
Wang has written investigative pieces for South Side Weekly and The Gate (UChicago), while in residence in Chicago. She has an MA in English from the University of Chicago, and a BA in English from Loyola University Chicago.
