INOUE, Junji name: Junji Inoue department: faculty of social welfare institute: Nihon Fukushi University (Aichi, Japan) birth day and place: Aug,10,1948 Osaka, Japan education: 1973 BA from Kobe City University of Foreign Study 1977 MA from Kanazawa University profession: associate professor of English at Nihon Fukushi University membership: the Shakespeare Society of Japan My current interest is the historical view of the English Renaissance through Shakespeare's History Plays in terms of power relashionships. ============================================================================== *Iancu, Dorina My name is Dorina Iancu, I am an MA student and teaching assistant in the English Department at Tel Aviv University. My field of interest is Shakespeare, although at this point, having recently begun my MA studies, I have not yet decided on a more specific aspect of Shakespeare research. =============================================================================== *Ichikawa, Mariko I was born in Gumma, Japan in 1954. I got my MA degree from Tokyo Gakugei University in 1979. I have been working for three Japanese universities: i.e., Otaru University of Commerce (1981-86); Bunkyo University (1986-92); Ibaraki University (since 1992). My main interest is in the original staging of Shakespeare. In particular, I have been studying entrances and exits for more than ten years. My article, 'Time Allowed for Exits in Shakespeare's Plays' will be published in "International Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries" by the University of Delaware Press. =============================================================================== *Ida, Michael P. Michael P. Ida (ida@casbah.acns.nwu.edu) 17 June, 1969 - present Dept. of Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics Northwestern University Evanston, IL Far from being a serious and knowledgeable student, steeped in Shakespearian lore, I am merely an interested bystander whose formal education, at least in the subject in question, extends little beyond secondary English and collegiate survey courses. Rather than a wealth of publications and impressive credentials therefore, I bring to this newslist only a broad and unbiased curiosity about Elizabethan England in general, and the works of W.S. in particular. While unspectacular in the context of the culture surrounding the electronic medium which is employed in the distribution of this list, my background is, I suspect, somewhat unusual in the much narrower context of those whose interests coincide with the much more traditional folio and quarto. My Bachelor's degree was obtained at the California Institute of Technology in June of 1991, after which I began the pursuit of a Doctorate degree in the field of applied mathematics at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois. As is evident from my address, I am still engaged in the pursuit of this degree, and will be so for several more years. As I am definitely NOT a literary scholar, my interests in Shakespearian literature are nebulous and ill-defined at best. My intent, in joining this list, is to listen and learn as I do not envision having anything worthwhile or profound to contribute to the discussion at hand. I very much appreciate your patience, and your tolerance of my presence. ========================================================================= *Inman, James I am pursuing my MA at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia, U.S.A., and I am attempting to pinpoint my interests. One of the authors I have most enjoyed is Shakespeare, so I am writing to you to ask how one might join the SHAKSPER list. I would like to subscribe in order to listen to the discussions about Shakespeare and his works. After all, so much of the study of literature seems to depend upon what scholars in a particular field deem appropriate or innovative. I believe that being on the SHAKSPER list would help me to decide if Shakespeare scholarship truly is the path that I should choose for my future. =============================================================================== *Irwin, Keith My name is Keith Irwin and I'm currently in the Masters Degree program at Oregon State University. It's an interdiciplinary program and my areas are History, English Lit (specifically Renaissance lit) and Creative Writing. (Which doesn't sound interdiscplinary, does it?) I'm only a beginning Shakespearean, and haven't even read all the plays yet and am familiar in any useful way with only _Hamlet_ and _King Lear_, although I have a suspicion that I've only been staring at the tip of the ice berg. So far, what has peaked my interest in Shakespeare is his characterization, and his formal construction. These are things I can begin to grasp. Thematically, I'm swimming in a whirlpool, or that's at least how I feel after reading _King Lear_ several times (and seeing several movie versions). =========================================================================== *Isaac, Megan L I finished my Ph.D. at UCLA in 1994 with a dissertation entitled "Stages of Witchcraft: Occult Beliefs and Early Modern Drama" which examined the representation of witchcraft in both the legal courts and the public theaters in the late 16th and early 17th century. Although I am still interested in this topic, the direction of my interests has shifted substantially in the past two years due to my work at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. As I have been teaching a great deal of Children's Literature courses, I have begun looking for intersections between Children's Literature and Shakespeare. I'm interested in adaptations of Shakespeare for children-and the political and social interpretations such adaptations necessarily entail. I am also exploring how writers for young readers have revised or appropriated Shakespeare in new stories (as Naylor has done with MAMA DAY and Smiley has done with 1000 ACRES in the arena of adult fiction). In addition to exploring this topic in my papers for the 1996 and 1997 Shakespeare Association of America seminars, I will be directing a seminar on Shakespeare and Children's Literature for the 1998 SAA in Cleveland. My writing and teaching have also been influenced by Ralph Cohen's 1995 NEH Summer Institute, at the Center for Renaissance and Shakespearean Staging (more fondly referred to as C.R.A.S.S.) in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Spending six weeks working with colleagues and the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express actors was a transformational experience for me. I'm very interested in learning more about how others use performance (both on-your-feet exercises and discussions of performance) as they teach Shakespeare to undergraduates and graduates. ============================================================= Rochester, Joanne I am a former visual artist who has reconstructed herself as an academic, much to the disgust of my parents, who were hoping for something along the lines of accounting. In part because of my previous experience, I am interested in the 17th century construction of the concept of "art", visual, verbal and theatrical. My thesis focuses on the use of metadramatic inserts in Massinger's plays-plays-within, masques and works of art (statues, pictures). I've chosen to focus on Massinger because of "The Roman Actor", which is arguably the most metadramatic play written in the period; I've chosen to focus on the Caroline drama because I want to examine the ways in which it differs from the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Therefore, my primary interests lie on the fringes of this list, with Shakespeare's contemporaries, competitors, and successors. Specific topics and authors include: Beaumont & Fetcher, Marston, Middleton. Caroline drama and dramatists; Ford, Shirley, Brome, Jonson's "Dotages" and the "sons of Ben". The Courtier playwrights; Suckling, Davenant and other members of the Queen's circle. Court drama and its relation to the Restoration Rhymed Heroic Play. Drama and dramatic activity from 1642-1660. Tragicomedy and romance, and their development into the Restoration. Collaboration; the problems of scholarship on collaborative works, and also the nature and structure of art produced in collaboration. Use of visual and spectacular elements in the theatre 1620-1680; the status of the "actress" as image and how (or if!) this shifted with the introduction of women to the stage. ============================================================= *Isser, Edward R. > Ed Isser is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the College of the Holy Cross. Prior to teaching at Holy Cross, he was a lecturer in Theatre at the University of Pennsylvania. Isser holds a joint doctorate in Drama and Humanities from Stanford University. He has published articles in numerous journals, including MODERN DRAMA, ESSAYS IN THEATRE, and the BERNARD SHAW ANNUAL. He is the author of STAGES OF ANNIHILATION, forthcoming from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Isser is currently (1995-96) a participant in the N.E.H. sponsored Humanities Institute at the Folger Library: Shakespeare Through Performance. Before attending graduate school, Isser worked professionally as an actor and stage manager on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in Regional Theatre. =============================================================================== *Ivic, Chris I'm Chris Ivic. Currently I'm in the second year of a four year doctoral program in English at Western. Although my field is Renaissance non-dramatic (Spenser, in particular), I'm interested in Shakespeare info. Last year I took a course with Paul Werstine here at Western. I wrote a paper on 3 Henry 6 for Paul and he advised me to publish it. If you know of a conference or journal I could write to please tell me. The paper concerns the representation of Margaret: I argue that the response to Margaret--fear and loathing from the Yorkists, awe and inspiration from Henry's camp--is not unlike contemporaneous writings about Elizabeth which celebrate her victory at Tilsbury, yet display a certain anxiety of female power. Well here's my address: Chris Ivic English Dept. University College U of Western N6A 3K7 =============================================================================== *