Carla Della Gatta

theatre historian and performance theorist

Carla Della Gatta is a theatre historian and performance theorist whose research focuses on ethnicity and aurality, specifically Shakespearean adaptation and performance, bilingual theatre, and theatre archives. Her primary fields are Shakespeare, Latinx theatre, LGBTQ theatre, and critical theory. She is Head of the MA/PhD program and Associate Professor of Theatre Scholarship and Performance Studies at University of Maryland.

Her work has been published in academic journals and collections, and her public scholarship can be found online through Chicago Shakespeare Theater, HowlRound, Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and more. She is on the Steering Committee of the Latinx Theatre Commons and the Executive Council of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. She serves on the boards for Shakespeare Survey and the Arden series Shakespeare and Social Justice.

She co-edited the collection, Shakespeare and Latinidad, published with Edinburgh University Press (2021), and her monograph, Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater is open access with University of Michigan Press (January 2023).