Dr.Alexa Alice Joubin

   An award-winning teacher, Alexa's goal is to ensure equal access to knowledge and to further our understanding race and gender in the mobility of early modern and postmodern cultures in their literary, performative, and digital forms of expression.

     She has received the 2026 Joseph P. Dymond Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2022 Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Assignment Design Award as well as grants for course development, such as the 2021 Online Course Development grant and the 2022 Adapting Course Materials for Equity Faculty Grant (impact of the project) which enables her to create openly licensed textbook with open-access online interactive learning modules: Screening Shakespeare. The web-based companion can be used by anyone to teach students how to analyze films, particularly the themes of race and gender in Shakespeare films (news story). 

     At George Washington University, she co-founded the Digital Humanities Institute to foster a new campus culture that increases STEM students’ engagement in the humanities and humanities majors’ digital literacy. 

    In recognition of her work on generative AI and contribution to public interest technology, George Washington University Office of the Vice Provost for Research named her the 2024 Public Interest Technology Scholar. In her ambassadorial role, she will foster university-wide collaboration on building open education resources (OER) and deploying trustworthy artificial intelligence in higher education. She is also a faculty affiliate at the National Science Foundation's Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS).

    She co-directs the University's Taiwan Education and Research Program which operates within the Elliott School of International Affairs. She also holds affiliate appointments in the Institute for Korean Studies and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. 

     As the general performance editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions (an open-access, peer-reviewed project founded at the University of Victoria, Canada, in 1996), she expanded the database’s multimedia collection and enhanced its pedagogical value. She established a new collaborative structure of regional editors and a new structure for metadata to better account for such ephemera as playbills.

     At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she is Research Affiliate in Literature and the founding co-director of MIT Global Shakespeares, an open-access performance video archive funded by the Mellon Foundation. Through that open-access project, she has spotlighted artistic and academic works by people of color, created undergraduate and doctoral internships and research positions in digital publishing, and enabled students, artists, and researchers to access primary research materials freely. (Read a review of the digital project here.)

     Beyond Washington, D.C., she holds the John M. Kirk, Jr. Chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English, and has taught at the Middlebury College Summer Institute in Global Humanities in Monterey, California. She is an affiliate of the University of Witwatersrand's Tsikinya-Chaka Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

     She has served as distinguished visiting professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (news story; highlight; list of events); University of Essex in the UK; Yonsei University and Seoul National University in South Korea; and Beijing Normal University and Shandong University in China.

     She held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Global Shakespeare Studies at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Warwick in the UK. She currently serves as a Fulbright Ambassador.