SHAKSPER 1997: (no subject)

From: Hardy M. Cook (editor@ws.bowiestate.edu)
Date: 11/13/97 

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S H A K S P E R
Shakespeare Electronic Conference
Member Biographies - Volume 63

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*Palmer, Barbara <bdpalmer@erols.com>

B.A., English, Chatham College, Pittsburgh; M.A., Ph.D., English,
Michigan State University.  Currently Professor of English, Mary
Washington College; former faculty positions at Wayne State University,
University of Leeds, Northern Illinois University, and Chatham College.
Principal teaching and research concentrations: early English drama
(beginnings to 1642), Shakespeare, medieval English literature, Chaucer,
early English drama in performance, English Renaissance literature,
early English theatre history.  Current research priorities: Records of
Early English Drama (REED) project as U.S. Executive Director of the
project and co-editor of the Derbyshire, West Riding Yorkshire, Clifford
household, and Cavendish family records' collections; wit and humor in
_Hamlet_ on film; interdisciplinary uses of the REED volumes (e.g.,
paleography, historic preservation, and women's studies research and
teaching); historic definitions of "city" and "town" in assessing early
English entertainment data.  Current and continuous interests include
the Early Drama, Art, and Music project (EDAM) with its tacit critical
caveat not to ignore the visual dimensions-early English religious art,
iconography, dramatic production, gesture, the new Globe, staging
evidence from the records, and so forth-which define theatre, then as
now.

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*Day, Gill <Gill.Day@uce.ac.uk>

I am currently a lecturer in English at the University of Central
England, in Birmingham, U.K. with a specialist interest in Shakespeare
and Renaissance Studies generally.

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*Ulrey, Jeremy <julrey@amaonline.com>

My name is Jeremy Ulrey.  I am an English student at West Texas A&M
University.  My goal is to become a writer of some lasting significance,
and to that end I am attempting to devour all the major influences of
the past.  I place as much emphasis on reading follow-up criticism to
each of the major works as I do the works themselves.  My interest in
Shakespeare as the epitome of both style and characterization is thus
assured.

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*Sumner, Angela M <Angela.M.Sumner@sowi.uni-giessen.de>

Angela M Sumner: student of political studies and Anglistics at the
Justus Liebig
University Gießen, Germany; current interests: gender studies, New
Historicism, cultural studies.

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*Gray, Susan <P2C2E@aol.com>

I'm not a Shakespeare or Renaissance scholar, just a long time fan.  I
grew up just down the road from Stratford, Ontario, and my Dad, who is a
Shakespearean scholar now retired, started taking me to everything, to
my complete delight, when I turned six.  Now, I'm a graduate student at
the University of Iowa, doing a creative dissertation (that is, the
usual English Ph.D. program, except the dissertation is a book of
creative writing-in my case creative nonfiction).  Alongside the
dissertation, which will include material about theatre, I'm also
working on a novel whose roots are planted in some of Shakespeare's
plays.  So, I'm curious to hear what the current batch of scholars has
to say about the plays, and I'd love the possibility of being able to
ask the experts about things that will help me in my work.

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*Feliu, Diana <dfeliu@ames.UCSD.EDU>

I am currently pursuing a Masters degree in English Literature.  My
emphasis is in Shakespeare and I am currently researching my thesis,
which will be on the representation of witches and witchcraft in
Shakespeare as well as other British Renaissance literature.  I have
been very interested in the uses of occult folklore in the literature of
the Renaissance and hope to continue my research after my Masters by
seeking a Ph.D.

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*Fitzpatrick, Meg <fitz@eos.net>

Currently, I am a master's student at the University of Cincinnati where
I concentrate (as much as possible) on Medieval and Renaissance studies
including, of course, Shakespeare. I will complete said degree in June,
1998, after which I plan to go on for a Ph.D. in literature, also with
an early modern concentration.  I'm hoping to do enough
interdisciplinary work so that I will be qualified to teach survey
courses pulling in many aspects of said period with a decided slant
toward history and literature. What I am most interested in at the
moment, thanks to Stephen Orgel, is questions of sexuality on the
Renaissance stage.  I do not yet know how far that interest will lead,
but I imagine it will carry over, in some form, to my dissertation
topic.  I'm also very interested in the notion of how that stage
deconstructs itself in that there are no referents at all, merely
references,

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*McIntosh, Jeri <JLMcIntosh@COMPUSERVE.COM>

J.L. McIntosh:  Currently I am a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins
University in the History Department under the direction of Richard
Kagan and J.G.A.  Pocock.  I have two Master's degrees, one in English
history from Oxford and the other in general history from Hopkins.  I
did my undergraduate degree at Berkeley.  My area of specialization is
Tudor/Stuart England.  My dissertation is on the succession of Mary and
Elizabeth Tudor and what determinant role, if any, was played by their
households in their succession.

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*Breitenreicher, Thilo <060411449-0001@t-online.de>

I'm 22 years old and an English-student at the University of Giessen in
Germany.

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*Demorest, Margaret <margd@trib.com>

My name is Margaret Demorest and I have emeritus status at Casper
College, Casper, Wyoming, where, for the last twenty-three of my
twenty-five years in the Division of Language and Literature, I was in
charge of honors classes in English.  I am still in touch with my
college through honorary membership on a humanities festival committee.
I'm a native of Kansas, have lived most of my life in the West, and I
have one husband, two children, and four grandchildren.  My degrees are
from the Universities of Montana and of Wyoming, with additional studies
at the University of Idaho and of Utah as well as having held NEH
fellowships at Boston University and Princeton. I spent a sabbatical at
Folger Shakespeare Library and returned a number of times; I also
studied briefly one summer at Huntington. I've been active in RMLMLA.
For the past twenty-four years I've been involved in exciting research
that began with an idea about a single sonnet by Shakespeare; that study
produced a new  reading that required inclusion of three of the plays as
well as the sonnet sequences of Daniel and Donne, and eventually led to
startling evidence not only about Shakespeare's Sonnets but also about
the writer.  My recently published book, Name in the Window, presents a
brief version of those findings.

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*Johnson, Dean <Dean_Johnson@hmco.com>

I am the senior editor in charge of THE RIVERSIDE SHAKESPEARE at
Houghton Mifflin Company, College Division, 222 Berkeley Street, Boston,
MA 02116-3764.

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*Stone, Paul <pas@MNSI.NET>

My Name is Paul Stone. I'm 31 and  I live in London Ontario Canada. I am
presently attending University of Western Ontario for Chemical
Engineering. I previously received a Master's in English Literature from
University of Windsor. My main interests were modernism and the 16th &
17th century lit.  I concentrated on the comedies and tragedies, but
have a great love for the Henry plays as well. Falstaff and Hal's
relationship is something I would like to discuss in a new-historicist
kind of analysis. In other words: what were the actual courtier/royalty
relationships? What might Shakespeare have been saying about them? How
does this relate to Jonson's and Shakespeare's relative positions as men
about town? I've read 30 of S's plays and I would love to have this
forum in order to discuss them with others who have similar interest of
the Bard. I attended the Shakespeare Conference in 1993 (Cleveland-main
topic was Ben Jonson's masque of Ariel I think) I am not presently
studying Shakespeare formally; but I am interested in renewing my
fondness for his work, as well as in sharing my positions and gaining
valuable insights from others.

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*Webb, Heidi Sue <hswebb@midway.uchicago.edu>

I am writing my dissertation on George Herbert at the University of
Chicago, and I have a very strong interest in Shakespeare as well.

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*Short, Carol <shortj@vcss.k12.ca.us>

My name is Carol Short, and I originally hail from the far tropics of
Zimbabwe, Africa. I attended the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg
in South Africa (alma mater of Alan Paton) where I earned a BA degree.
From there, I went to Cape Town and did a one-year, post-graduate
teaching diploma. I taught in Zimbabwe for about 5 years before moving
to the States with my husband. I am presently teaching at a new tennis
academy, where the pleasure of dealing with few numbers is more than
made up for in the stress of making sure that these students achieve
their dream of winning Stanford and UCLA scholarships! We have just
started a unit on the Renaissance, and Macbeth in particular, so I would
enjoy talking to other teachers of Shakespeare, and hearing their views.

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*Murray, Janet <PM4189@aol.com>

I am the mother of three, foster mother of one, and day care provider
(part time)  of three.  I also have a Bachelor's of Art in English
(UMASS/Boston '87) I took all of the available Shakespeare courses.  I
have always enjoyed reading Shakespeare but have never been able to find
anyone to converse with about his works.  I am hoping that this
conference will allow me some intellectual stimulation.  Being around
kids all day is rewarding but I do have other interests and needs.

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*Ames, Lex <aames@vt.edu>

I am very interested in joining the SHAKSPER discussion list because I
hope to make the study of Shakespeare's work my academic area of
specialty.  While I'm currently working for a small computer firm,
providing Macintosh support to a group of graphic designers and editors
at a large technology corporation, I'm actually an aspiring academic.
After completing a BA in fine art and another in English Literature at
the University of Missouri, I spent last year pursuing an MA in English
Literature at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
It is my intention to transfer those credits towards the completion of
an MA at another university, beginning next fall. In the meantime, I
have an essay to write to complete the requirements of one of the
courses I took last year at Virginia Tech.  My argument is that King
Lear is ultimately to blame for the demise of the kingship and thus the
turmoil within his former kingdom.  Shakespeare has given us other
examples of poor kings, but never one who subverts the authority of the
office as severely as does Lear.  It is my position that comparisons of
Lear to other, more successful, Shakespearean kings, such as Henry V,
significantly illuminate the definition of Shakespearean kingship.
Moreover, such definition(s) can, perhaps, serve as gloss(es) to
interpretations of Shakespeare's commentary on the institution of
kingship in the world he wrote about. y, I feel that taking part in
SHAKSPER will be extremely beneficial to my Shakespearean research.  In
the past, I've found other such listservs, namely Chaucernet and
Arthurnet, to very helpful in my studies of their respective authors and
genres.  Moreover, I intend to write my MA thesis, for whatever
institution will grant me admission, on a Shakespearean topic; in fact,
I am very interested in expanding the scope of the queries I make in the
essay at hand.  Therefore, I hope that you will accept my very serious
interest in SHAKSPER and approve me for inclusion in the discussion.

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