Eunwoo Yoo

Eunwoo Yoo (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a recipient of the Fulbright Foreign Student Program scholarship. She specializes in early modern English theater and culture, examining how food performances constructed Englishness as a racialized national identity. Her dissertation, The Flavor of Englishness: Early Modern Racialization and National Formation through Food Performance, analyzes dietary practices as performative acts that imagined and enacted Englishness. A chapter from this research, supported by the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, is forthcoming in the edited collection Performing the Edible (Routledge). 

Eunwoo teaches courses in British theater, ancient theater, global performance (Europe and Asia), and acting. She holds a Certificate in College and University Teaching and received the UCSB GSA Excellence in Teaching Award in 2025. She also serves as a Co-Director of Communications for the Shakespeare Association of America’s Graduate Committee.

In addition to her scholarship, Eunwoo works in theatrical production as a dramaturg and assistant director. Her production work spans Shakespearean adaptations and new play development, including: The Winter’s Tale (Prague Shakespeare Company, 2023), Immortal Longings (UCSB Naked Shakes, 2020), staged readings of Replaced (2023) and that drive thru monterey (2025) with UCSB Launch Pad, and The Tempest (2023) with the Public Domain Players, where she also served as Public Relations Chair from 2022 to 2024.