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Shakespeare Electronic Conference
Member Biographies - Volume 82

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*Morgan, Sarah <SMorgan4@ompus.jnj.com>

I read your Washington Post article this morning at work and found it
very interesting.  I'm a college student, now a senior, at Fairleigh
Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey.  I'm not by any stretch of
the imagination a scholar of Shakespeare, but I love what I do know of
his works.  I'm planning to study at Wroxton College in the fall,
Fairleigh Dickinson's campus in England, and a large part of my desire
is that their Shakespeare classes are taught by members of the Royal
Shakespeare Company and include trips to the Globe theater to see
plays.  Your discussion group sounds fascinating.  As I've implied, I'm
not sure how much of substance I might be able to offer, but I would
love to be able to be a quiet part of the conversations.

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*Carawan, Tal <talstar@geocities.com>

Tal Carawan, Jr.: Actor with a desire to perform Shakespeare Most recent
performance- as Don Pedro in Much Ado about Nothing, at a community
theater in N. Virginia Aspirations- First and foremost, to perform with
the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. and (until invited there!)
succeed in other professional venues in stage and film I have also have
written two screenplays, a short play, and a novel, and am currently
working on a one act play.

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*Markus, Zoltan <zqm5721@is.nyu.edu>
Name:           Zoltan Markus
Department:     Dept. of Comparative Literature
Institution:    New York University, NY
Current Status: ABD

My dissertation titled "Shakespeares at War: the Cultural Appropriation
of Shakespeare in Berlin, Budapest, and London during World War II" is a
comparative study focusing on the public reception and cultural
appropriation of Shakespeare in these three European cities in the 1930s
and 1940s.

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*Carlson, Steve <scrlsn@HOTMAIL.COM>

I am really looking forward to becoming a part of SHAKSPER.  I have been
a fan of Shakespeare's for many years.  I am continually amazed by his
use of language.  And I am very interested in engaging in dialogues with
the members of the list.  As a high school English teacher, I am seeking
to learn more about Shakespeare and his plays both for my own growth and
enjoyment and for use in the classroom.  Again, I really look forward to
"talking" with all of you about some of the greatest literature written
in English.

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*del Valle, Elena Fernandez <jyemarine@compuserve.com.mx>

I was born in 1957 to parents with a great love for books and learning.
Spanish is my mother-tongue and, as I was raised in Mexico City, it was
the language in which I first learned to read and write.  I have been a
voracious reader since the age of five.  During my elementary school
years I spent many an afternoon with Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Mark
Twain, Louisa May Alcott and Homer  (yrs, I loved The Odyssey, and
Little Women too).  Later came Don Quixote and a first encounter with
Shakespeare in a Spanish translation.  My English became good enough to
tackle "David Copperfield" or "Wuthering Heights" when I was leaving
high school.  By that time I began to read in French.  A strong,
parallel interest in Biology made me go for a medical degree instead of
Literature or Modern Languages.  I became a psychiatrist and, years
later, a Freudian psychoanalyst.  Reaching back to my first love for
Literature, my main interest in Psychoanalysis lies now on the study of
creative processes To me, the great literary classics are more
inspiring, more illuminating on the subject of human nature than most
psychoanalytical writers.  Up to a point, I find Harold Bloom's opinion
"All Freud is in Shakespeare" to be true.  Following Dr Robert Coles, I
ask my students to read from the classics whenever I teach a course for
psychotherapists in trainig at the Centro de Estudios de Posgrado de la
Asociación Psicoanalítica Mexicana.  A small group of students meets
periodically at my office to read and discuss Shakespeare's works.

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*Benoit, Ronald <RBenoit@IKON.COM>

I am an Actor and a Reader and a Person which is to say that I Read
about life and then I practice what I've read on Stage and then I Live
what I've practiced during my daily activities.  For the past year I
have been performing on-stage in "The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare (Abridged)" throughout Connecticut for a touring production
company.  It is a comedy which covers each and every Shakespearean play
and sonnet.  Acting does not pay the bills, hoever and I currently am
employed at IKON Office Solutions in Connecticut - I sell technical
computer network and development training to major corporations,
(including all Colleges and Universities).  My overall favorite author
is Thomas Pynchon and my favorite book is "The Giving Tree" by Shel
Silverstein.

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*Beam, Kelly <KLBEAM@COMPUTRON.NET>

Currently I am a graduate student at the University of Houston-Clear
Lake.  This summer I am (theoretically) researching my thesis and hope
to be writing and defending in the fall.  My thesis revolves around
Shakespeare's jesters although actual direction is still up for grabs.
My undergraduate degree is in marketing, and I currently teach adjunct
fundamental English at a local community college.  My teaching
experience has not been as fulfilling as I fancied, so my future is
frighteningly without direction.  If possible, I would be a literature
student indefinitely, but reality is pressing.  Considering law....yes,
yes I know.

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*Baumgaertner, Jill Pelaez <Jill.Baumgaertner@wheaton.edu>

I would like to subscribe to the SHAKESPER list.  I am Professor of
English at Wheaton College where I teach in the are of  Sixteenth- and
Seventeenth-Century British literature and Creative Writing.  I have
published a poetry textbook with HBJ, a book on the work of Flannery
O'Connor, three volumes of poetry, and numerous articles in publications
such as John Donne Journal, Review of English Studies, Hispanofila,
Durham University Journal, etc.  Currently I am working on a book with a
New Historicist slant-on a number of works, including the King James
version of the Bible and poems and plays by Donne, Shakespeare, and
Aemilia Lanyer --all of which were published or performed in 1611-12.

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*Moody, Ellen <ellen2@jimandellen.org>

You can go to my homepage and read my biography and résumé and a list of
my publications there: http://mason.gmu.edu/~emoody.  You will find that
I am still in the midst of attempting to put my complete translation of
the poems of Vittoria Colonna onto the page.  You will also find a
half-finished biography of Anne Finch and annotated chronology of her
poems.  There is a small section devoted to Veronica Gambara, a
translation of her Quando miro and accompanying bibliography.  There is
a section devoted to my drawing of calendars from each of Jane Austen's
novels and to a group read I led on Clarissa on Clary-l.  My
publications were until a few years ago all on the 18th century or
Renaissance my original areas (Katherine Philips; Anne Cecil, wife of
the man whom some would give Shakespeare's oeuvre to); I have kept up by
writing reviews which are listed on the resume (they appeared in
scholarly journals).  PQ will be publishing my A Calendar for S&S next
fall. My interests have changed somewhat.   I will not let go of my
original vocations and loves:   I have been asked to write a narrative
life and pick out some poems by Anne Finch for a musical program
centering on her life which will tour England next year; the group
performs 16th through 18th century music, _Musica Dolce they call
themselves.  Still I have moved on to the nineteenth century-this partly
as a result of my long experience on two Trollope lists and Victoria.  I
wrote a book on Trollope and my experiences on the Net writing about
him.  It is scholarly but also meant for the common reader.  It will be
the free book for the Trollope Society in England and is to be published
by Hambledon Press; the title is Trollope on the Net.  John Letts,
chairman of the Society has now asked me to write and to deliver the
lecture to be given at the annual AGM in London. I think that more or
less covers the ground of what I am doing as a scholar, teacher and
writer-author and reader.  My Ph.D. is from the Graduate School of the
City University of New York; it was called Richardson, Reverie, and
Romance.  I am interested in French literature too and read French
fluently.  I teach at George Mason University as a part-time adjunct
lecturer.  Under 'teaching' on the homepage you can see my activities
there. I love Shakespeare.  I once had a dream of writing my
dissertation on Cymbeline.

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*Rydberg-Cox, Jeffrey <jrydberg@perseus.tufts.edu>

My academic training is in the field of Classics and Ancient History.  I
obtained my Ph.D. from the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World
at the University of Chicago in 1998.  My primary scholarly interests
are in ancient Greek rhetoric, myth, and religion and also in the
computational analysis of ancient Greek texts..  I have a handful of
articles on classical topics in print and I have a book on Lysias under
contract that will appear in October, 2000. I am currently working as
the Assistant Editor for Greek Language and Lexicography at the Perseus
project (www.perseus.tufts.edu) located in the Department of Classics at
Tufts University.  I have two primary areas of responsibility:  1>
editing reference works for the study of ancient Greek texts for
electronic publication at the Perseus project and 2> adapting the
methods of corpus linguistics to ancient texts.  The Perseus project is
also involved in the electronic publication of the New Variorum
Shakespeare series and I am peripherally involved in this project as
well.

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*Brookes, Tim <tbrookes@zoo.uvm.edu>

I'm a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Vermont.
My interest in Shakespeare arises not in the usual scholarly way, but
because I'm a writer. (At UVM I primarily teaching writing classes.) I'm
writing a novel set in 1594/5, and I may also be doing a project on
Shakespeare for National Geographic. With this in mind, I'm very
grateful for expert help and suggestions on certain specific questions
that may not be answered in the general books on Shakespeare. At the
moment, for example, I'm trying to find out as much as I can about
Richard Topcliffe.

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*McDermott, Kristen <Krismcd@aol.com>

Kristen McDermott, formerly Assistant Professor of Renaissance
Literature at Spelman College, joins the English Department of Central
Michigan University in August 1999 as Assistant Professor of English
Literature before 1800.  Her areas of specialty are Ben Jonson,
Renaissance Drama, and Shakespeare.  She is currently editing "Masques
of Difference," a selection of Jonson's masques, for the Student Revels
Editions published by U Manchester Press.  Her most recent article,
"Puppets, Poets and Paternity," appears in "Critical Essays on Ben
Jonson," edited by R.N. Watson for G.K. Hall.  Her dissertation,
completed in 1995 for UCLA, is "Locating Jonson in Bartholomew Fair."
She has also written "Staging the Classroom" for Shakespeare Magazine
(Spring 1998) and is interested in incorporating performance techniques
and multimedia technology into the teaching of Shakespeare.  Her
husband, Ari Berk (PhD in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, U
of Arizona), also joins the CMU English Department as Assistant
Professor of Folklore, Mythology and Native American Literature.

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*Pressler, Charlotte <pressler@acsu.buffalo.edu>

Charlotte Pressler is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at SUNY
at Buffalo, specializing in Renaissance literature. Her dissertation,
"Enargeia: Presentational Rhetorics and Renaissance Poetics from
Petrarch to Shakespeare," studies the ways in which theories of the
imagination or phantasia, as found in Renaissance medical and
philosophical writers, affected Renaissance rhetoric and poetics. The
works discussed in the dissertation include a number of Shakespeare's
plays, as well as the Secretum of Petrarch, the plays of the early Tudor
reformer John Bale, and the sixteenth century prose fictions of
Bandello, Fenton, Painter, and Riche. An excerpt from her dissertation,
"Passing from Play to Play: The English Novella as Mediating Genre in
the Sixteenth Century English Response to Italian Comedy," was presented
at the 1999 Shakespeare Association meeting, and may be found in the
SHAKSPER archives. Her other interests include: literary theory as
practiced in the Renaissance, neo-Latin literature, and gender and
sexuality theory. She has recently completed a research trip to the
Warburg Institute Library, funded by SUNY at Buffalo.

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*Terry, David <magius@wpi.edu>

I am currently a junior at WPI.  At this institution we are required to
participate in the Humanities in order to be more well rounded
students.  Having been very interested in Shakespeare in High School I
thought that I would pursue this route further in college.  I have no
completed several classes on Shakespeare and I'm in the process of
writing a large research paper.  I hope to continue my education
concerning Shakespeare as I mature in my educational endeavors.  I feel
that SHAKSPER will be very helpful to gain incite to current scholarly
topics.
Current Project:  As stated briefly before I am working on a large
research paper.  I have
done work concerning how different productions of Shakespeare plays
often
grant the viewer a much different perspective.  I plan to extend this
project to view how different cultures make Shakespeare their own and
the
effect of this on the overall production.

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