Erin O'Keefe

Erin O'Keefe is a classically trained ballet dancer and choreographer interested in analyzing eighteenth-century British literature as it was influenced by visual aesthetics and the rise of ballet d'action. She is an associate of the Shakespeare and Dance Project and has presented research on dance in Shakespeare's plays as it relates to Plato's theories on time and the movements of the cosmos. Her recent research explores dance in Milton's Paradise Lost.