Danielle Rosvally

PhD

Danielle Rosvally.

Danielle Rosvally

PhD

Danielle Rosvally

PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance
College of Arts and Sciences

Research Topics

Theatre

Education

  • PhD, Tufts University
  • MA, Rutgers University
  • BA, New York University

Bio

Dr. Danielle Rosvally researches Shakespeare as an artifact of popular culture. Her work touches upon the intersections between capitalism, theatre, performance, and popular entertainment. She is also a fight director and folds critical examinations of violence into her research as often as possible.

Dr. Rosvally’s monograph explores how nineteenth-century businesspeople in New York City bought and sold Shakespeare as a commodity, and how these acts of commerce reflected social values. The book, Theatres of Value: Buying and Selling Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century New York City examines the ways the businesspeople drafted value in conjunction with Shakespeare over the course of the nineteenth century.  Her work has a heavy digital bent, using digital methodologies to examine and explore historical phenomena as well as examining digital media itself. Her next book project (Yassified Shakespeare: Gender Performance and Critical Shax-Drag) examines drag performance, Shakespearean personification, popular culture, and digital avatars of self. In You can find Yassified Shakespeare on the web and on TikTok (@YassifiedShax). Dr. Rosvally is the co-editor of Early Modern Liveness: Immediacy and Presence in Text, Stage, and Screen (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2023). She is also co-editor of the Fall 2024 issue of Shakespeare.

As an actor, Dr. Rosvally has trained with the American Globe Theatre, The Actor’s Institute, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Shakespeare & Company. As a fight director, Dr. Rosvally has over twenty years of experience in the industry.

Dr. Rosvally’s work has recently been seen in print in Studies in Musical Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin, Borrowers and Lenders, Early Modern Studies Journal, Theatre Topics, and The Fight Master magazine. She has worked as project coordinator with the Folger Shakespeare Library, assisting the digital division with projects such as Folgerpedia, Early Modern Manuscripts Online, BardMetrics, and the Elizabethan Court Day by Day.