Emma is a BBC AHRC New Generation Thinker . She recently presented an episode of the BBC Arts and Ideas podcast, on the
Her BBC Radio 3 Essay, 'A Family of Witches', explores how 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 frequently appears on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, speaking about Shakespeare's women and her play Shakespeare's Sister, the wicked stepmother, Lady Macbeth, Tudor families, witchcraft and the nuclear family, Shakespeare's life lessons, Galatea and Shakespeare, 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.
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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