Dr Sarah Olive is a Senior Lecturer in English, Languages, and Applied Linguistics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. She researches and teaches at the intersections of children’s and young adult literature, Shakespeare, and education. Recent publications include a guest edited issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains on ‘Hot Shakespeare, Cool Japan’ (110.1) and a co-authored article ‘Secondary Shakespeare in the UK: pedagogies and practices’ in Changing English with Victoria Elliott (both 2023). Her books include Shakespeare in East Asia Education co-authored with Kohei Uchimaru, Adele Lee and Rosalind Fielding (Palgrave 2021), as well as Shakespeare Valued: Education Policy and Practice, 1989-2009 (Intellect 2015). She is Lead Editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal Jeunesse: young people, texts, cultures (University of Toronto Press) and Founding Editor of the British Shakespeare Association’s Teaching Shakespeare. In 2018, she co-ran the Gothic in Japan conference with Dr Alex Watson (Meiji), resulting in the collaborative creation of an online resource on British Gothic monsters in East Asian culture that reflects and enriches her own teaching.