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Bi-qi Beatrice Lei
Bi-qi Beatrice Lei is Founding Chair of the Asian Shakespeare Association. She received her PhD in English from New York University, and has published on Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, early modern culture, intercultural theatre, films, television and popular culture. She has taught at Taiwan’s Tsing Hua University and Taiwan University, and is Founding Director of the Taiwan Shakespeare Database, an open-access online performance archive hosted by NTU’s Research Centre for Digital Humanities. Lei currently serves as Vice-Chair of the International Shakespeare Association and Assistant Director of the Shakespeare Association of America, and is chairing the programme committee of the 2026 World Shakespeare Congress in Verona.