Christine Hamel is an Assistant Professor of Voice & Speech and Acting at Boston University School of Theatre, which she is currently the Co-Chair of Performance. Her areas of research include the social, political, and ethical aspects of voice; the development of sustainable, imagination-centered, and physically grounded methods for actors to explore emotionally challenging terrain; and inclusive approaches to classroom pedagogy. Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice, and the Voice is her first book. As a professional actor and voice coach she has worked on and Off-Broadway and in regional theatre, including for the Cort Theatre, the Huntington, PTP/NYC, Olney Theatre Center, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Lyric Stage Company, and others; she has vocal coached over 95 professional productions. She has also specialized in the development and coaching of solo performance, and was recently named a Granada Artist-in-Residence at UC Davis where she created Alone/Together, centering the actor as a generative, creative artist. At BU, Christine was the founding artistic director of Femina Shakes, an initiative committed to exploring Shakespeare unconstrained by the limitations of conventional gender narratives, prioritizing the relevance of embodiment as both implicated in and resistant to various forms of oppression in and around those texts. Christine is a Designated Linklater Voice teacher, holds a teacher training certificate of completion from MICHA (Michael Chekhov Association), is a certified Divine Sleep® Meditation and Mindfulness Leader, and is a member of Actors' Equity. She lives in Arlington, MA.