AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Shakespeare, performance, appropriation
COURSES TAUGHT
Shakespeare in London, Playing Shakespeare
BIO
Sokolova teaches Shakespeare and Shakespeare in performance at the University of Notre Dame (USA) in England. She has published widely on Shakespeare in Europe and the performance history of his plays. Her essays have appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Bulletin, Cahiers Élisabéthains and in a number of collections, among them A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (Blackwell, 2007 and 2010) and The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation (2019). Sokolova’s latest book (with K. Stavreva) is The Merchant of Venice, Second edition, Manchester University Press, 2023.
In 2010, Sokolova initiated, and has since organised, the Annual Notre Dame Shakespeare Lecture in Honor of Professor Sir Stanley Wells, which has brought to Notre Dame London unforgettable intellectual encounters with eminent Shakespeare scholars, actors and directors. The event has a growing international audience.
Sokolova is currently collaborating with the York International Shakespeare Festival. In 2024, she was invited as a consultant for the production of The Merchant of Venice at the Bulgarian National Theatre “Ivan Vazov”.
She is a founder member of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) and has served on its board.
SELECT WORKS:
Sokolova, Boika, et al. The Merchant of Venice. Second edition / Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva, with James C. Bulman, Manchester University Press, 2023.
Sokolova, Boika, et al. Shakespeare's Others in 21st-Century European Performance: The Merchant of Venice and Othello. 1st ed., Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.
Sokolova, Boika. William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. 1st ed., Humanities-Ebooks, LLP, 2009.
Sokolova, Boika, et al. Shakespeare in the New Europe. Bloomsbury Academic, 1994, 2015.
Shurbanov, Aleksandŭr., and Sokolova, Boika. Painting Shakespeare Red : an East- European Appropriation. University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, 2001.