The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0119 Sunday, 24 February 2008
From: Hardy M. Cook <
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Date: Sunday, February 24, 2008
Subject: SHAKSPER Book Review Panel Members
Dear SHAKSPEReans,
I am delighted to announce the members of the SHAKSPER Book Review
Panel: Mark Aune, Jeremy Fiebig, Arthur Lindley, Martin Mueller, Peter
Paolucci, and Murray Schwartz.
These six represent an interesting cross-section of SHAKSPER's
membership as their biographies below reveal.
Jeremy Fiebig:
Jeremy is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Waldorf College in Forest
City, Iowa and a graduate of the Mary Baldwin College/American
Shakespeare Center program in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in
Performance. He served as Assistant Director and Stage Manager for the
American Shakespeare Center's 2006 Resident Troupe season including
productions of As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest with director Giles
Block, and Othello. He has directed Measure for Measure, The Two Noble
Kinsmen, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Yasmina Reza's Art, The Tempest
(ASC's Young Company), and Twelfth Night. Jeremy has performed in nearly
40 productions in the past decade. Highlights include Claudius in
Hamlet, the title role in King John, Don Armado in Love's Labour's Lost
, Malcolm and Duncan in Macbeth, Antony in Sweeney Todd, and many
others. Jeremy is a four-time Kennedy Center/American College Theatre
Festival Irene Ryan nominee and an Equity Member Candidate.
Jeremy has presented research including Lear Unwritten: Examing New and
Renewed Aesthetics for the College English Association, "Ourself shall
mingle with society": Commendatory Plays and Original Staging as an
M.Litt thesis presented for the Third Blackfriars Conference, Malvolio
in Purgatory: Tragedy and the Deuteronomic Cycle in Twelfth Night for
the West Virginia Shakespeare Conference, and The Practice of Original
Practices: The Next Stage of the Original Practice Movement at Maryland
Shakespeare Festival's "Making Shakespeare Matter" conference. Jeremy is
a member of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT),
the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and the
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA).
Fiebig is a respondent for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre
Festival Region V and a visiting artist at Pigeon Creek Shakespeare in
Grand Haven, Michigan. He also coordinates the Waldorf College minor in
Shakespeare in cooperation with other Theatre, English, and History faculty.
Arthur Lindley:
Arthur Lindley is currently an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of
Advanced Research at the University of Birmingham (UK), having
previously taught for many years at the National University of
Singapore. He is the author of *Hyperion and the Hobbyhorse *(Delaware,
1996), a study of carnival and privative evil in early modern English
literature, including *Hamlet* and *Antony and Cleopatra. *His work has
appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including *ELH, PMLA, JEGP,
Exemplaria *and *MLR*. He is currently writing a book on religious
doctrine and the grotesque in Jacobean drama. An offshoot of that
project is a forthcoming study of the role of intimacy in Elizabethan
and Stuart revenge drama. His other research areas are late medieval
Enlgish literature and film studies.
Murray Schwartz:
Murray M. Schwartz received his Ph.D. from the University of California
at Berkeley in 1964 and has since then been a faculty member at
SUNY/Buffalo, UMass/Amherst, Claremont Graduate University and,
currently, Emerson College in Boston. He has held appointments in
English, Comparative Literature, Psychology and Psychiatry Departments.
He was also a Dean, Provost or Academic Vice President at these
institutions for twenty-five years. He has conducted NEH summer
seminars, in Shakespeare and in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary
Criticism. His interdisciplinary interests have included Shakespeare,
Psychoanalysis, the Holocaust and literary theory. He has co-edited two
anthologies, Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays, with
Coppelia Kahn (Johns Hopkins, 1980) and Memory and Desire: Aging,
Literature, Psychoanalysis, with Kathleen Woodward (Indiana, 1983). He
has written many essays, on Shakespeare's Romances, King Richard II,
Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis, D. H. Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Trauma
Theory and other subjects. With Norman N. Holland, he has recently
published Know Thyself: Delphi Seminars (online at lulu.com). He
co-edits the online journal PsyArt and is President of The PsyArt
Foundation (psyart.org). He was a research scholar at Harvard University
from 2005-2007. He is a member of the Psychoanalytic Historiography
Group sponsored by the Freud Archives in New York. He is a scholar
member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and teaches Shakespeare,
Holocaust Literature and Literature of Extreme Situations at Emerson
College. He is currently completing a book on the African-American
dancer and anthropologist Pearl Primus with his wife, Peggy Schwartz,
and co-editing a collection of papers from the Twenty-Fourth
International Conference on Literature and Psychology in Belgrade, 2007.
Peter Paolucci:
Peter Paolucci has literary specializations in the fields of the
Renaissance, horror literature, and stylistics. He is currently the
Coordinator for the Professional Writing Program. Dr. Paolucci has also
taught theory and practice of interface design to senior undergraduate
Computer Science students. He also teaches XHTML, XML, JavaScript, Unix,
and other web-based languages for Seneca College. Currently, he is a
special videoconferencing advisor to The Schulich School of Medicine and
Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, and the co-recipient of
grant money from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
to research ways of improving the delivery of medical and dental
instruction through videoconferencing. For the past fifteen years, he
has been a faculty development advisor in technology and pedagogy for
the universities of Ottawa, Guelph, Carleton, Trent, and York, and for
the community colleges in south-western Ontario.
In 2000 Dr. Paolucci formed Learn Canada (http://www.learncanada.org/).
As part of a consortium of Internet-based training and educational
companies, Learn Canada is dedicated to advancement of all digitally
based teaching and learning. Comprised of humanist-oriented academics
with high levels of technological expertise and aptitude, Learn Canada
employs and partners with university and community college faculty,
primary and high school teachers, technical trainers, web and database
programmers, instructional designers, information architects and other
specialists, for the primary purpose of developing sound pedagogy for
the delivery of digital content. Learn Canada builds strategic alliances
between universities, community colleges, industry, and corporations.
Peter's current research (The Shakespeare XML Project) involves the use
of Facebook-related technologies to create online editions of
Shakespeare that are infinitely unique and continuously changing
(http://www.shakespearexml.ca/).
For fifteen years, Professor Paolucci taught a course in rock-and-roll
and York University, and he currently enjoys working professionally with
a group called The Coyotes (http://www.thecoyotes.ca).
Martin Mueller:
Martin Mueller was educated at the Universities of Munich, Hamburg,
Berlin, Trinity College, Dublin, and Indiana University, where he got a
PhD in Classics (1966). He taught at Brandeis University (1965-67) and
the University of Toronto (1967-76) before moving to Northwestern
University, where he has taught since 1976. At Northwestern, he has held
various administrative positions, including Director of Comparative
Literature (1976-81), Director of the Humanities Program (1979-81),
Chair of the English Department (1983-90), and Acting Chair of Hispanic
Studies (1997-99).
His primary research field has been the uses of ancient epic and tragedy
by European writers since the Renaissance. He has also written on Homer
and Shakespeare. More recently he has become interested in the uses of
information technology for traditional philological inquiries. Together
with Ahuvia Kahane, he is the editor of The Chicago Homer, a
multilingual web site that uses the search and display capabilities of
digital media to make distinctive features of Early Greek epic
accessible to readers with and without Greek. He is the general editor
of WordHoard, an application for the close reading and scholarly
analysis of deeply tagged texts, and one of the editors of the MONK
Project, a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars
discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study.
Aune, Mark:
M. G. Aune finished his PhD at Wayne State University, worked at North
Dakota State University for several years and currently is an assistant
professor in the English Department at California University of
Pennsylvania. He divides his research into two streams, one involves
Shakespeare and includes performance, film, and popular culture; the
other explores modern and early modern travel writing and visual
culture. His articles and reviews have appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin,
Early Modern Literary Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, Theatre Journal,
and Sixteenth Century Journal.
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