To watch the interview, tune in to SCREENSHOT film festival and University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center’s YouTube channel.

     During the 2021 SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival, the  As We Like It, directed by Muni Wei and Chen Hung-i, was screened. The Taiwanese film is a youthful and modern taken on Shakespeare’s play that critiques exclusion of women from Shakespearian classics.

      Charles Exley of the University of Pittsburgh interviewed Alexa Alice Joubin, Professor of English, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and international Affairs at George Washington University, about the significance of Shakespeare as a global text to Asia.