Natasha Korda (Ph.D., Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University, 1995) is Director of the Center for the Humanities and Professor of English at Wesleyan University. Her research interests include early modern English dramatic literature and culture, theater history, women’s social, economic and legal history, and material and visual culture studies. She is author of Labors Lost: Women’s Work and the Early Modern English Stage (2011) and Shakespeare’s Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (2002), and co-editor of two anthologies, Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama (2011) and Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (2002). Currently she is editing the Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and working on a new book-length project on material ephemera, feminist counter-archives, and early modern theater historiography. 
Her research has been supported by the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University, an International Research Fellowship at Oxford Brookes University, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Charles S. Singleton Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University’s Villa Spelman, and fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She has served on the editorial boards of Renaissance Quarterly, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal and The Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia, on executive committees of the Modern Language Association and the Renaissance Society of America, and is a member of the Theater Without Borders research collaborative. In 2012 she was invited by the Folger Institute to teach an intensive graduate seminar on “Mastering Research Methods at the Folger.” After being elected to the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2015, appointed Chair of its 2016 Program Committee and 2017 Nominating Committee, she was elected Vice-President of that organization in 2019, and served as its President in 2020-2021.