Young Latinx Shakespeares

Jesus Montaño is an assistant professor of English at Baylor University, USA. He is a teacher-scholar of Latinx literatures and cultures, with special interest in children’s and young adult literary and cultural production in Our Americas. Along with his co-authored book Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature (2022), Montaño’s program of study includes articles and book chapters in The Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature Quarterly, and Liberating Shakespeare (Arden Shakespeare, 2023).

• Chapter 1: By Invoking Shakespeare.- Chapter 2: Romeo and Juliet Contra Los Rangers.- Chapter 3: Juliet Made Latinx.- Chapter 4: What if Hamlet’s Father Was a Cholo.- Chapter 5: Hamlet’s AfroLatinx Ghosts: Rematerializing Justice in I Am Alfonso Jones.- Chapter 6: Reframing Shakespeare in the Borderlands.