Kathryn Vomero Santos

About Fellow

Kathryn Vomero Santos is an associate professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. As a cofounder of the award-winning Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, she is invested in the public humanities and forms of community-engaged scholarship and teaching that sustain the arts, cultures, and languages of the US–Mexico Borderlands. Her collaborative work has been supported by major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation.

Santos is the author of Shakespeare in Tongues (2025) and the coeditor of several books, including Shakespeare and the Politics of Tradaptation: Power, Poetics, and Linguistic Justice (forthcoming 2027), Shakespeare Refracted: Five Plays by Caridad Svich (forthcoming 2027), The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volumes 1–3 (2023, 2024, and 2026), The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation (2024), and Arthur Golding’s A Moral Fabletalke and other Renaissance Fable Translations (2017). In addition to serving on the editorial boards of Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, Bakwethu, Sonance, and ACMRS Press, she is a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and a member of the boards of directors for Humanities Texas and the Friends of International Friendship Park.

At the National Humanities Center, Santos will be working on a new book about the absent-present figure of Sycorax in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and her many transnational, transmedial afterlives.

Selected Publications

• Santos, Kathryn Vomero. Shakespeare in Tongues. London: Routledge, 2025.
• Santos, Kathryn Vomero. “‘Th’oppressor’s wrong,’ or, What’s Hamlet to the Borderlands?” Latino Studies 22, no. 3 (2024): 353–75.
• Santos, Kathryn Vomero, Louise Geddes, and Geoffrey Way, eds. The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
• Santos, Kathryn Vomero, Katherine Gillen, and Adrianna M. Santos, eds. The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera. 3 vols. Tempe: ACMRS Press, 2023–26.
• Santos, Kathryn Vomero. “¿Shakespeare para todos?” Shakespeare Quarterly 73, no. 1/2 (2022): 49–75.