Emma Whipday
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Emma is an AHRC New Generation Thinker 2022. Her BBC Radio 3 Essay, 'A Family of Witches', will focus on how many of the women accused of witchcraft in early modern England were represented as threatening because of their non-nuclear families: as single mothers and intergenerational households of women, they challenged the patriarchal ideal of a household ruled over by the husband/father/master.

She regularly appears on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, speaking about Tudor families, witchcraft and the nuclear family, Shakespeare's life lessons, and domestic violence in Macbeth. She has also featured on Woman's Hour, speaking about the RSC's gender-swapped Taming of the Shrew.

Emma appeared at cinemas across the UK, in an interval interview for the RSC Live screening of Measure for Measure (31st July 2019). She has also discussed Measure for Measure in a post-#Metoo world at the Shakespeare's Globe 'Women and Power' festival.

You can watch Emma discussing Jacobean masques in the BBC documentary The Best King We Never Had (aired 30 November 2017), along with a clip from her production of Masque of Queens.
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You can see Emma discussing her research on true crime play 'The Tragedy of Merry' with Dr Freyja Cox Jensen in a TEDx talk:
Emma also created the lockdown video series 'Stay at Home Shakespeare' for YouTube channel 'A Bit Lit'. Designed for teachers, homeschoolers, Shakespeare fans, and university students preparing for Shakespeare modules, it offers an accessible introduction to Emma's research on Shakespeare and the home – and ways of thinking about how some of Shakespeare's most famous plays would have been performed in his own time. It won the Renaissance Society of America's 'Innovative Online Teaching' award 2021.
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