Carla Della Gatta is an Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. She has published essays in collected editions from Oxford University Press and Palgrave Macmillan, and in journals such as Shakespeare Studies, and Bulletin of the Comediantes. She has also published reviews in Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare, Theatre Journal, and Sixteenth Century Journal. With an emphasis on the performance of culture, her dissertation was entitled “Shakespeare & Latinidad: The Staging of Intracultural Theatre.” It explored how Latino culture is constructed dramaturgically and textually in recent Shakespearean adaptations and productions. Escribe Aquí Festival 2016