Christine Hamel

Actor, director, scholar

Christine Hamel is an actor, voice coach, director, and scholar whose work focuses on the politics of voice, emotion, and embodiment. She is currently an Associate Professor of Voice and Acting at Boston University’s School of Theatre, where she founded the Femina Shakes initiative, exploring Shakespeare’s canon through the lens of power and the complex intersections of gender, sex, race, class, and ability present in those works. Christine is also co-author – with philosopher Ann J. Cahill – of the book Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice, and the Voice which explores the ethical and social meanings of the human voice.