Florence Moore 310A
Teddy Lance (she/they) received her BA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and earned her PhD from the University of Southern California in August, 2024. Their doctoral dissertation tells a cultural history of liberal whiteness through the study of American Shakespeare performances in the late 19th and early 20th century and their intersection with ideas of “civilization,” “progress,” and a racialized “savagery.” Her other research interests include global Shakespeare adaptations, African American literature and performance, settler colonialism, queer and trans poetics, and prison education. In their free time, they enjoy writing poetry.
Journal Articles:
• “Shakespeare’s Racial Destiny: Tragic Whiteness and the Spirit-Savage Binary in Edwin Booth’s Hamlet and Othello,” Journal of the Wooden O, 22 (2022): 19-50.
Edited Play Translations:
• Hwang, Haejung. Chinese Cabinet (중국식 옷장). Translated by Jihye Kim, edited by Teddy Lance, Arts Council of Korea, 2019. Korean Writers Series. • Kang, Hoongu. A.K.A The Series of Events Happening after the Forgery Scandal (<미인도> 위작 논란 이후 국립현대미술관 제 2 학예실에서 벌어진 일들). Translated by Jihye Kim, edited by Teddy Lance, Arts Council of Korea, 2017. Korean Writers Series.
Public Scholarship:
• Co-host, T4PhD: Queer/Trans Academics & Creators, podcast sponsored by the Mellon-funded USC Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture (in development, expected Spring 2025)
University of Southern California:
Thematic Option Honors Program Seminars
• “Impostors: Fictions of Illegitimacy, Illegitimate Fictions,” Spring 2020 & 2023 (hybrid, in-person) • “Queer Afterlives: Grieving the Past, Dreaming Livable Future(s),” Spring 2022 (hybrid)
Thematic Option Honors Writing Seminars
• “Writing Present Pasts,” Fall 2022 • “Writing and Recognizing Realizations,” Fall 2019
Writing Program Seminars
• “Digital Intimacies,” Spring 2019 • “Political Rhetoric in the Digital Age,” Fall 2018
Prison Education Project (volunteer):
Riverside Pathways Juvenile Facility • “Introduction to Drama” (Zoom), Summer 202
Conferences
Panel Presenter:
• “White Liberal Education as the Afterlife of Racial Slavery in Caliban by the Yellow Sands,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, January 5-8, 2023 • “‘God speed thy learning, monster!’: The Racial Pasts of Progress in Caliban by the Yellow Sands,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Las Vegas, November 8-11, 2021 • “Ling Anderson: Performing Asian Homo(ethno)nationalism on the Alt-Right,” Association of Comparative Literature, Los Angeles, March 29-April 1, 2018
Panel Chair:
• Session 5 – Drama and Society I: Drama, Theater, and Performance, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Las Vegas, November 12, 2021
