Laina Southgate

Laina’s dissertation research focuses on Shakespeare adaptation and translation in Northern Scandinavia, with a focus on Finland. Using postcolonial theory, Laina explores the ways in which Shakespeare, when adapted by marginalized nations, can be fetishized as a British cultural icon while at the same time is used to confer legitimacy upon nation building endeavours. Laina was the Associate Production Editor at Shakespeare Quarterly, and is a Junior Fellow Alumna at Massey College. Laina is also a leader of the “Shakespeare Reading and Research” group.

List of Publications 

• Southgate, Laina. Review of Jonathan Locke Hart, Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire Volume I: Geography and Language. University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 92, no. 3, 2023.
• Southgate, Laina. “Shakespeare is a Finnish naitonal poet: Developing Finnish Shakespearean Scholarship From the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century.” Origins of Shakespeare Studies, Special Issue of Multicultiural Shakespeare. 2023.