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Laura Grace Godwin holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon (University of Birmingham, U.K.), & Ball State University. She has taught at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois & at New Mexico State University. In addition to her work teaching Theatre History, Arts Administration, English, Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Museum Studies, & Honors courses at CNU, she spends summers in London teaching Shakespeare for MSU-Texas' British Studies program.

Dr. Godwin's scholarship & practice focus on Early Modern English plays in contemporary performance. She is a regular & featured scholarly reviewer for SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN & has published with Palgrave-Macmillan, the MLA, Adam Matthew Digital LTD, & Stylus Publishing (in collaboration with the American Association of Colleges & Universities & the Council on Undergraduate Research). Her work, often in collaboration with students &/or alumni, has been presented at the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, the Marlowe Society of America International Conference, the Shakespeare Association of America International Conference, the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, the Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference, the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Annual Conference, the Southeastern Theatre Conference Theatre Symposium, the Mid-America Theatre Conference, the SCAENA Conference, the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, & the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, & Gender Annual Conference.

As a practitioner, Dr. Godwin has extensive experience in dramaturgy, dramaturgically-informed directing, & stage management with a focus on promoting collaboration & intellectualism in theatre. She is the founding Dramaturg/Artistic Director of both the James River Shakespeare Company & H₃ Company, which is dedicated to experiment in casting & interdisciplinarity in theatre.

Recently, Dr. Godwin dramaturg-directed Shakespeare's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM for the James River Shakespeare Company; Pinter's DUMB WAITER for H₃ Company; & Jeanie O'Hare's adaptation of Shakespeare's HENRY VI plays, QUEEN MARGARET, for Theatre CNU. She has also dramaturged/co-directed Shakespeare's COMEDY OF ERRORS & "A Virginia Company," a repertory of Aphra Behn's THE WIDOW RANTER & Robert Munford's THE CANDIDATES, for TheaterCNU.