The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0030 Tuesday, 20 January 2009
From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Subject: SHAKSPER Book Review Feature (SBReviews)
For some time now, members of the SHAKSPER Book Review Panel have been
working behind the scenes.
I announced the members of the Panel in February of last year: Mark
Aune, Jeremy Fiebig, Arthur Lindley, Martin Mueller, Peter Paolucci, and
Murray Schwartz <http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2008/0114.html>. These
six represent a representative cross-section of SHAKSPER's academic
membership (brief biographies are included below).
Since February, the Panel has put together a list of works for possible
review; several members have volunteered to be the first to write
reviews of some of the titles that have been selected. In the future,
the Panel will issue calls for reviewers and will select reviewers from
among SHAKSPER members who express an interest in reviewing particular
works from the list. The Panel will peer review all resulting
submissions before "publication" on SHAKSPER. Approved reviews will
initially distributed in regular SHAKSPER mailings before a "pdf"
version in mounted on the SHAKSPER file server.
Today, I will distribute the first two of the SHAKSPER Book Reviews
(which shall be known as SBReviews from here on):
SBReview_1: Arthur Lindley of Institute for Advanced Research,
University of Birmingham, reviews Elena Levy-Navarro. The Culture of
Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson,
Middleton, and Skelton (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
SBReview_2: Murray M. Schwartz of Department of Writing, Literature &
Publishing at Emerson College reviews Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare (West
Lafayette, Indiana: Parlor Press, 2007), a collection of Kenneth Burke's
essays edited by Scott L. Newstok.
Other Panel members also have reviews in the pipeline.
My thanks to all of the SHAKSPER Book Review Panel members.
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.
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
English 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. 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/).
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).
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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