Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network (EMSOC)

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Description

The Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network (EMSOC) is an anti-racist collective that aims to promote, support and foster anti-racism as well as intellectual and academic inclusivity in Shakespeare, Early Modern Studies and related disciplines in the UK and around the world. It responds to what it describes as a significant underrepresentation of faculty of colour employed in permanent positions in UK universities in Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies, and works to nurture and enable students, early career researchers and academics of colour to develop academic and pedagogic networks. Its three stated aims are anti-racist advocacy, professional development, and mentorship and community. The network is jointly managed by King's College London and Shakespeare's Globe, with a steering committee that also draws on University College London, the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham and Royal Holloway, University of London. Its mentoring scheme, run in partnership with the Society for Renaissance Studies, first ran in 2023, and in September 2025 the two bodies held a joint symposium at Liverpool John Moores University.

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Offers funding

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Contact details

King's College London, Strand
London
Greater London
WC2R 2LS

Website: https://www.emsoc.co.uk

Public email: emscolour@gmail.com

@EMSOC_UK

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King's College London (KCL)
London

Partner Infrastructures

London Shakespeare Centre

The London Shakespeare Centre is devoted to the encouragement of research, learning and teaching in the field of Shakespeare and early modern drama and in early modern literary studies more broadly. I… read more about London Shakespeare Centre

London

Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS)

The Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS), founded in 1967, provides a national, and international forum for all those - whether academics, independent scholars, postgraduates and undergraduates, scho… read more about Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS)