Cato Rooryck is a PhD student in English Literature in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, where she also received an MA in English and Dutch Literature and Linguistics. She also holds an MA in Literary Studies and an MA in Cultural Studies from KU Leuven. Her research focuses on the interrelations between language and power with attention to the dynamics of gender and race in Shakespeare’s plays. Her doctoral thesis studies Australian-Indigenous adaptations of Shakespeare’s works in the late-twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.
