Guest Bio
Yasmine Hachimi (Ph.D., University of California at Davis) is a Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Her book project, Tudorotica, traces the ways that Tudor queens are sexualized across centuries and genres, from sixteenth-century letters and plays, to tv shows and fanfiction today. Yasmine is interested in how popular media and images of the premodern period challenge or affirm public understandings of the past, particularly with regards to sexuality and race. She has shared her work and expertise in several venues, including public-facing talks and publications, podcasts, and social media outlets. You can follow her on Twitter: @YasmineHachimi and Instagram: @yasminehachimi.phd.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/YasmineHachimi
Tudor Takeaway
Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of the Tudor Queens by Sylvia Barbara Soberton
History, Fiction, and the Tudors: Sex, Politics, Power and Artistic License in the Showtime Television Series, edited by William B. Robison
African Europeans by Olivette Otele
Links of Interest
“A beauty not so whitely”: Anne Boleyn and the Optics of Race.
Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Hachimi about popular representations of Anne Boleyn and the ways in which she’s been eroticised and hypersexualised over the centuries.
Tune in to hear Natalie and Dr Hachimi discuss:
– The shifting representations of Anne Boleyn
– The racialisation of Anne Boleyn
– The ways in which historical dramas shape our understanding of the past
– The importance of diversifying the picture of Tudor England
– Why the public is insatiable when it comes to Anne Boleyn
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