Jackson, David I am an actor and director in D.C. (I've worked at the Shakespeare Theatre--where I first got to know Ed--and most of the other theatres in the area). I'm also an attorney, and I am the managing editor of a weekly legal publication. My interest in Shakespeare veers between the academic and the theatrical; my research over the years covering such things as the location of Prospero's Island (Brereton's account of Cuttyhunk, etc.) to editing Antony and Cleopatra to be performable by 22 actors while not mutilating the text, and particularly the changing perceptions of Shakespeare plays in performance during the last 100 years. =============================================================================== *Jacob, Nicole My name is Nicole Jacob and I am studying at Kassel, Germany. My main subjects are English Literature and British Studies but I also study sociology and psychology. This semester I attend a class where we are dealing with Hamlet and Macbeth. I had the idea to subscribe to a list to get some more information not only about these two plays, but also about everything that is related to Shakespeare and his works. ============================================================= *Jacobs, Jeremy R. My name is Jeremiah (Jeremy) Raphael Jacobs. I am presently in my first year of graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Department of English. I am pursuing an MA and a PhD in English, and also hope to earn PhD certificates in Cultural Studies and in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. I received my BA from Duke University, English in 1992, where I also took a year of graduate studies as a part-time student. Since my career is just getting underway, I have not yet published or presented any papers, and this term is unlikely to produce anything in the Shakespeare field since my papers are all on thoroughly eighteenth and nineteenth century topics. Nevertheless I have a strong interest in Shakespeare and the English Renaissance and hope to prepare something for publication next semester, when I will be taking a course on Shakespeare with Marianne Novy. I am also one of only two first year student members of the local informal Medieval and Renaissance Reading Group run by Pitt and Carnegie-Mellon professors James and Peggy Knapp. I can be reached by voice phone at (412) 683-4147 and by surface mail at 262 N. Dithridge St. Apt 204, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. =============================================================================== *Jacobson, Beverly <76645.3610@CompuServe.com > 11210 Dice Road Freeland, MI 48623 USA (517) 781-3429 I am a doctoral student in the English department at Michigan State University, presently preparing for my area exams. My primary area is Middle English literature and language, but I also have a keen interest in sixteenth and seventeenth century English Drama, especially Shakespeare. To date I have published nothing, but have two papers on Shakespeare's language, one on the Duke's language in _Measure_for_ _Measure_ and the other on Hamlet's use and misuse of language, that are promising, but require further revision and the time to do so. I am most interested in Shakespeare's language, but performance criticism, rhetoric, computer applications, and genre studies, as well as medieval connections to Shakespeare, interest me. My post-dissertation dream is to explore the development of fairy, magic, and other world elements from early Middle English literature to mid-seventeenth century English literature. I received my BA in English from Alma College and my MA from the University of Michigan. At present I am a part-time instructor of English at Saginaw Valley State University. I do not belong to any Shakespeare organizations and would to know more about various organizations, conferences, and festivals. I plan to make a dual purpose visit to England this summer to examine the extant ME manuscripts of _Richard_Cour_de_Lion_ for my dissertation and to experience the summer Shakespeare festival for myself. I am always willing to share whatever I have done, but I prefer to keep works in progress until they are polished and ready for presentation. ========================================================================= *Jacobson, Christine I wish to join Shaksper. I am a student currently enrolled in Shakespeare 312B at Medicine Hat College, credit to transfer to my B.A. English major programme at Athabasca University in northern Alberta. Most of my elective subjects have been completed and include courses in art history, classical civilization and history plus one fine arts course. I am very interested in Shakespeare and am looking forward to discussing relevant information on the internet on Shakespeare with all kinds of people. =============================================================================== *Jae-Deog Yoo My name is Jae-Deog Yoo. I finished the doctor's coursework in 1993. Now I am under course of preparing or the Ph.D. dissertation about the renaissance drama. Also, I am a member of Scholars for English Studies in Korea(SESK). I have been interested in the relation between drama and history. I think that the study of the close relation of the Tudor drama and the court is important to understand the Tudor drama. It is said that the court was the cultural center of the Tudor age. Because many writers relied economically and intellectually on the court, there remained the traces of the court in their works in many respects. But I think that the relationship of the court and their works was not always homogeneous. Especially I think that the Shakespeare's drama have an unique relationship with the court (and courtesy literature). Now I research the materials for dissertation in University of Florida. ============================================================= *Jafferl, John You asked for a biography in order to subscribe to SHAKSPER. I am an attorney practicing in Sarasota, FL. My interest in Shakespeare is in two law-related areas: 1) Biography of Shakespeare as relates to legal aspects, for example will, litigation, property transactions 2) Legal references in plays. =============================================================================== *Jagodzinski, Cecile M. I'm the collection development librarian at Milner Library, Illinois State University (formerly a cataloger). My M.L.S. is from SUNY/Buffalo, my M.A. in English from Northwestern University, and I am currently a doctoral candidate in English (Renaissance) at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. I' ve also done more advanced library science work (mostly book history and bibliography) at the now defunct University of Chicago library school. My special interests are rare books (though this is only an amateur's interest) , and the history of reading. I am one year into my dissertation work; I am trying to show some connection between the rise of "private life" during the 17 th century and the habit of reading. My efforts thus far have focused primaril y on popular and pamphlet literature, and especially religious literature, thou gh Donne and Bunyan have worked their way into my writing thus far. I've staye d away from Shakespeare in all this, because I am not sure I can unearth anythi ng new. I'd like to join the list because, despite these years of education, I still feel dreadfully ignorant about an author whom I enjoy reading. =============================================================================== *James, Heather Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (English, Latin, Italian), University of California, Berkeley. Academic appointments: niversity of Southern California, 1995 to present; Yale University, 1991 to 1995. Publications:"Shakespeare's Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire," forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (1997). articles on Titus Andronicus, Antony and Cleopatra, and Milton. ============================================================= *Jamison, Porter Porter Jamison: Started as actor, became director and teacher, have lately branched out into design. Always an amateur Shakespearean scholar, even as an actor... My interest is historical and pragmatic rather than rarefied theory-- I'm not anti-theory, mind you, just not especially interested in concepts designed more to demonstrate a pedant's cleverness than a scholar's insight. I have almost 300 stage credits in acting, directing, design, management, and writing. My rag-tag company, Blu Gnu Stew, has presented MND and TwN, and plans are in the works to do R3 in 1996. Married to Deborah Terrell. No children, three cats (Ondine, Aphra Behn, Moth). Have been descibed as a cross between Sir Toby Belch and Hamlet... Born the same day as Edward de Vere, April 12. Not an Oxfordian, really, but a long-time anti-Stratfordian. Been online since 1990, but just recently entered the Internet. =============================================================================== *Janes, Jerald J. By request, I submit a brief bio. My name is Jerry Janes and I am a graduate student (2nd trimester) in the English program at Governors State University, University Park, Illinois. My current interests include ESL, the Internet (I'm a "newbie", as well as a teacher of computers to pre-schoolers), and Shakespeare, hence my subscription. But, the biggest interest of mine, at the moment, is my pursuit of the MA in English. I forsee a lot of use with this group, considering that I am enrolled in a "Modern Problems with Shakespeare" course, this trimester. My bachelor is in English, with a concentration in Creative Writing, emphasis in Drama, from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. My associate degree is in Sociology, from Joliet Junior College. =============================================================================== *Jansen, Jennifer Leigh My name is Jennifer Jansen, and I am currently in my freshman year at Purdue University. I am eighteen years of age, and I am originally from Indianapolis, Indiana. I have been a great fan of Shakespeare since reading "Romeo and Juliet" when I was in seventh grade. I am currently doing a project on the reconstruction of the Globe Theater for an information strategies class, and I had hoped that "eavesdropping" on this listserv would be helpful in this endeavor (as well as interesting to me personally). ============================================================= *Jarman, Robert Formerly: - Associate Director, Zootango Theatre Company, The State Theatre Company of Tasmania Currently: - Freelance theatre director and dramaturg. - Part-time Tutor in Performance and Communications (First Year students) Part-time Tutor in Movement and Stagecraft (all years) Conservatorium of Music, University of Tasmania. - Director, major Music-Theatre project: "Plato's Symposium" (for which I am also the writer/adaptor) Conservatorium of Music, University of Tasmania. Current research area: - The use of theatre game-playing techniques in aural training for vocalists and conductors, with particular reference to their usefulness in the development of part-thinking skills and in ensemble work. Relevant past productions include: - Director: Twelfth Night A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing - Dramaturg: As You Like It Future (1996/97)directorial engagements include productions of: - Measure for Measure Hamlet The Cherry Orchard David and Me (a new Tasmanian play) The Play of Daniel (in the local Anglican Cathedral) A "New Opera" project (currently untitled) on the Irish Catholic uprising in Tasmania last century Appointments: - Member, Theatre Panel, Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board (State arts funding, policy development and Ministerial Advisory body) You will note that much of my current work is in the field of music theatre and the extension of theatrical practice into the field of music training and production. Whilst this work is important and stimulating (and helps pay the rent), my personal interest and on-going development remains in the area of "drama". =============================================================================== *Jayko, Margaret My name is Margaret Jayko. I am a student at both Laney Community College in Oakland, California; and I take correspondence courses at the University of California, Berkeley. I am working on obtaining a Bachelor's Degree. I am currently an assembly line worker at New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI), located in Fremont, California. I am a member of United Auto Workers Local 2244. My last two jobs were as a garment worker in a union-organized sweatshop in San Francisco, and as a laborer in a steel mill in Pittsburg, California. I spent 10 years as a socialist journalist in New York City, where I lived up until recently, writing mainly on politics and history for newspapers and magazines published in English and Spanish. I was able to travel extensively--from North Korea to the Philippines, from northern Ireland to Nicaragua. Though my interest in Shakespeare is relatively new, I would argue it is no less ardent than that of many academics and professionals who are SHAKSPER members. As a Catholic school youth, I had a total of one encounter with Shakespeare--our high school class was taken to see a modern version of A Midsummer's Night Dream on Broadway. We were given no preparation in the way of reading the play--or even being told a word about Shakespeare. I remember my shock, therefore--being a rebellious youth who assumed the worst about the totally unknown Shakespeare--at how much I enjoyed the performance. My next contact with Shakespeare was watching Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet , which I also loved, along with its modern-day counterpart,West Side Story. My third acquaintance with Shakespeare was about five years ago--I went with some friends to see an off-Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice, starring Sigourney Weaver as Portia. Again, I didn't have a clue as to what the play was about, but it was an incredibly enjoyable experience. And my political appetite to learn more was whetted by the fact that some people were distributing flyers prior to the performance, characterizing The Merchant of Venice as "anti-semitic"--a charge which I found to be groundless. When I recently decided that I really did want to learn about Shakespeare, I began watching videos and reading the plays as I went along. Orson Welles' Othello, Olivier's Hamlet, and Kurosawa's Ran--these gave me an inkling that there was much to be enjoyed and learned from in Shakespeare, but that I needed some help to do so. I then enrolled in UCB's correspondence course on Shakespeare, taught by the Shakespearian scholar, Bertrand Evans. I have learned so much from this course--and this professor. I've now read more than half of Shakespeare's plays, seen many live and filmed performances, and read some Shakespeare critics. The more I learn, however, the hungrier I am to learn more. It is this which motivated me to ask to join SHAKSPER. My address is: Margaret Jayko, 406 Van Buren Ave., #204, Oakland, CA 94610. My phone number is: (510) 763-2279. =============================================================================== *Jaynes, Nanette My name is Nanette Jaynes. I would like to join the Shakesper conference. I have been reading some of it through the peachnet gopher and my major professor, Dr. Frances Teague, has forwarded thing from it to me. I am very impressed and wish to be a part. I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia working on my dissertation on selected works of Shakespeare. I am also a ull time faculty member at Floyd College. I look forward to being a part of the conference. =============================================================================== *Jaynes, Nanette Ph.D. English 1995 The University of Georgia diss. title: Nurturing Processes and the Creation and Stabilization of Self in Selected Works of Shakespeare Major Professor: Frances N. Teague The Shakespeare Association of America Modern Language Association South Atlantic Modern Language Association Currently employed at Floyd College, Rome, Georgia =============================================================================== *Jensen, Mike Mike Jensen, Marketing Coordinator, Mayfield Publishing Company (a college textbook publisher), Menlo Park, CA My degree was in English, but my grad work was not. I should have stuck with English. I came to Shakespeare despite a Shakespeare professor who clearly did not like me. The words drew me in, despite the obstacle. What I enjoy has broadened over the years. Current main interests are: >Performance, special interest in the RSC >Shakespeare on film and TV. Doing very heavy research in TV at the moment >Textual criticism >Canon and collaboration >Hermeneutical issues (does anyone talk about those anymore?) >History of Shakespeare scholarship >Image clusters. Yes, I know about Spurgeon. It's a great book. Has anybody done a proper catalog of image clusters? >Particular interest in Hamlet, Much Ado, Henry V Disinterests are: >The "isms"- Psychoanalytical, Gender, Structuralism, etc. criticism. They often tell us far more about the commentators than they do about the texts. There are a few wonderful exceptions. >The Earl of Oxford >Someone's new interpretation of the Sonnets based on their unquestioning assumption they must be autobiographical >Canon revisited. The Edward Samms approach does not work for me Shakespeare publications in: Shakespeare on Film Newsletter Shakespeare Bulletin Small Press Magazine I was the Shakespeare reviewer for Small Press for about three years. Believe me, I wish I were more interesting. ============================================================= *Jensen, Thomas W. Thomas W. Jensen, Ph.D. Director of R&D and General Manager Design Software Group, Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation. (P. O. Box 58700, Salt Lake City, Utah 84158, (801) 582 5847) EMAIL: tjensen@dsd.es.com Education: PhD., Mathematics, University of Utah, 1984. M.A., Mathematics, University of Utah, 1977. B.A., Mathematics, University of Utah, 1975. B.A., English, University of Utah, 1974. Select Publications and Honors: Winner in the Category of Book-length Fiction, Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition, 1992. Invited Speaker, Conference on Freiformkurven und Freiformflachen, Mathematiches Forschungsintitut Overwolfach, Germany, June 1993. "Practical Curves and Surfaces for a Geometric Modeler," with M. Watkins and C. Petersen, Computer Aided Geometric Design 8, 357-369. "Assembling Triangular and Rectangular Patches and Multivariate Splines," Geometric Modeling: Algorithms and New Trends, edited by G. Farin, S.I.A.M., 1987. As is apparent from my academic and professional background, I have a diverse set of interests and endeavors. As a mathematician and administrator my focus in the problem of representing complex surfaces in terms of algorithms and formulae and the application of those to real world problems. I am also a novelist, as is apparent from the above, and my short fiction has appeared in a number of respected literary magazines, i.e. The Kansas Quarterly. My interest in the shaksper group derives from a life long fondness for the works, particularly the Histories and Tragedies, a current fictional project (which I have no intent of inflicting on the news group), and extensive theatre-going experience in the US and UK. As an undergraduate, I centered my studies in English on Elizabethan Drama and Literature. For the rest, I am married and 40 years old. When I am not writing or working or going to plays, (which is most of the time), I ski and play bridge. While I am not an active researcher in Shakespearean or Elizabethan studies, I have a keen interest in current work. =============================================================================== *Jermann, Jenny jermannj@UBACLU.UNIBAS.CH I'm a doctoral student at the university of Basle, Switzerland, and I am working on a bilingual edition of the First Part of Henry VI. ============================================================= *Johnson, Betty Jo My name is Betty Jo Johnson. I am a senior English Literature major at the University of Dayton. My interest in the Shakespeare list is merely that of a listener and student. =============================================================================== *Johnson, Brian My name is Brian Johnson and I am a native resident of Kansas City, Missouri. I am a graduate student at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, studying English Literature and Language. I am thirty years of age and single with, as of yet, no romantic interests other than that which pertains to literature. I spent four years serving my country, at least that's what they told me I was doing, in the U.S. Army as a combat engineer. After the Army I decided to use the GI Bill to finish my bachelors degree which as well was in English literature. Needless to say I enjoyed school so much that I decided to stay in for a while longer and earn a Masters of Arts degree. As for my interests, I love to read, especially eighteenth century literature. I love the epistolary novel. I also fancy myself a bit of a movie buff, in particular the classics. Basically, if its filmed in b/w, it's for me. I love Shakespeare and Star Trek in which I find many similarities, and hope to find stimulating and fun conversation through this discussion group. ============================================================= *Johnson, Dean I am the senior editor in charge of THE RIVERSIDE SHAKESPEARE at Houghton Mifflin Company, College Division, 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116-3764. ============================================================= *Johnson, Donald OK, My name is Donald Johnston. I am a post-doctoral fellow at Meharry Medical College in Nashville TN, working on Chaga's disease. My degree is in genetics. I studied Shakespeare as a graduate student at Humboldt State University in California, primarily taught by Jack Turner. When there's a play around, I usually go, but I'm not religious about it. I have my own ideas about why Shakespeare endures -- he speaks to everyone because he structured his verse to carry multiple meanings; everyone understands something about what he wrote. It may not be possible to defend this very well, but I often find myself wondering whether he meant, for example, that R3 was seeking escape, or seeking power, when he would trade his kingdom for a horse. Was a horse a woman? "capers nimbly". Was it power? "barbed steeds". It is an ambiguous image in my mind, although professor Turner, in a rare moment of off-handed dismissal said something to the effect that "the image was unambiguous". Ah well, maybe I'm just riding my own horse on this one. =============================================================================== *Johnson, Jay My name is Dr. Jay Johnson and I have been an English instructor at Medicine Hat College in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada for fifteen years. Our college is a transfer institution, and so my teaching is at the first and second year university level. One of my ongoing teaching assignments is a second-year Intro to Shakespeare course which is always interesting and provides a focus for my Shakespeare addiction. I don't hesitate to try different things in this class, and I've some successes and some failures. One aspect of this course emphasises performance, and last year, instead of just having my students do small scenes in front of their classmates, I developed a cut-down, one-act version of Twelfth Night, got everyone involved in the production, and then entered it in a Theatre Festival for one-act plays. This was a tremendous challenge and a lot of fun, but also a very stressful situation for everyone. I'm not doing it again this year, though I'm sure I will again. For me, the task of cutting the full play to a one-act was almost the best part; I feel there is a place for one-act versions of the plays for classroom performance, and I have made notes on several other plays with a view to sometime publishing a group of one-act cut versions with some performance suggestions. Another innovation that I tried a couple of years ago was an Electronic Journal. Using the college's mainframe computer, I set up a bulletin board for my students and required them to participate, at least once a week in an on-going discussion. The point of this was to break the discussion out of the classroom and to allow new things to happen in new ways. Because I did not have e-mail access on my own office computer at that time, the logistics of the whole thing were impossible, and ultimately it collapsed. Now that I do have an on-line computer in my office, I am determined to get my students on-line as well talking to me and to each other electronically, and also accessing Internet resources such as Shaksper. These are a couple of my current thoughts and concerns about Shakespeare. I look forward to getting involved with Shaksper, and eventually introducing my students to it. =============================================================================== *Johnson, Jennie I am a post Graduate student of Education at the University of Hertfordshire, North of London. My first degree is in English Literature, of which Shakespeare played a great part. I think I studied about twleve or more plays in varying depths, and I am facinated by the diversity of his knowledge, in a pre- Fruedian context, he really understood the frailties of human nature, form Kings to gardeners, to murderers etc. I don't know if he really understood women though, his women characters are a bit polarised. Anyway, about myself. I am studying to teach English in secondary schools in England, and as it happens I am about to teach Macbeth to a group of fourteen/ fifteen year olds. I would therefore appreciate any tips, hints or insights into the text that I have maybe overloooked. If you wouldn't mind, you could put the word out, since I don't know at this precise moment how to send a message to 'the list'. So my interest in Shakespeare is two-fold. Both as an accademic text and a personal interest in what others have to say. I can re-read Shakespeare and suddenly see an image that I missed purely because it is so saturated with imagery. So that's me in a nutshell; I'm 27 and also have an interest in going to teach English in Italy; it's my favourite country, and full of literary associations for us Brits. It also has the best pizzas in the world, and wonderful weather, most of the time. =============================================================================== *Johnson, Mary S. My name is Mary Johnson, and I am very much interested in becoming a member of your discussion group. Since I first expressed my interest in SHAKSPER, I have been following the contributions of various members, and I must say that I have been interested, amused and even annoyed--all reactions which I enjoy greatly. First of all, I am still an undergraduate at Gettysburg College, and although I have decided to concentrate upon American and French literature, I feel that I can still offer some insight to the group. Mostly, of course, I would like to be an observer of more educated opinions than my own. Of all the Shakespearean plays, I believe that I am most proficient in "Othello"---regarding the play itself as well as the criticism which exists since the 17th century. I would very much enjoy seeing some commentary upon this play in particular since I believe that I have most to offer in this area. Of course, I am highly proficient in all of the plays except for the historical ones, and I hope that you will consider my membership to your group. Finally, I would like to mention a few of my interests. Beyond scholarly pursuits, I enjoy travelling and planning dinner parties for my close friends. I absolutely love hiking--especially in Brittany or in the French Alps. This past year, I studied at the Universite de l'Haute Bretagne in Rennes, France, and I believe that by this point I am proficient enough in French to live there for any length of time. Hopefully, I will be able to include France in my career plans. =============================================================================== *Johnson, Michael I am not an academic, although I entertain the idea of going to graduate school occasionally, especially when life in the entertainment industry becomes unbearable. I currently work at a literary agency that sells TV and movie scripts. I am the 'script boy' who photocopies 30,000 to 60,000 pages a week of scripts to be sent out to studios, networks, and production companies. I should be reading the scripts I am photocopying, but I have my powerbook fully loaded with Shakespeare, Whitman, Wordsworth, and Joyce. We can't read everything in this life, so that which we read had better be worth it. So, I keep on reading that which is beautiful, instead of that which could earn me thousands later on when I become one of the agents who sell the scripts. My only hope is that the essence of drama and comedy, which is Shakespeare, will enable me to pick the right scripts. I am fascinated at the differences between a feature film on paper and Macbeth, or King Lear, on paper. A man made out of words can be a paltry sketch, or it can be a portrait in which all of life can be seen. If it weren't for Shaksepeare I would die of starvation since TV characters and movie characters are so inarticulate. I came to Los Angeles after graduating from Harvard to be an actor. Now I am in an agent training program. (This is a common occurence. The disillusioned actor turned agent.) And to many this will appear to be selling-out. But, I have given-up on being an actor, or postponed this aspiration, the future will tell, for good reason. If the definition of peace is the prescence of play, I wanted to be an actor for the best reason of all - actors, the best actors, play with each other all day long. I found in Los Angeles, very few actors who sought this type of communal experience. I found it impossible to endure feeling betrayed on-stage night after night by those who I most wanted to trust. So, now I am in business. The slimiest, roughest, most competitive business there is. And still, I meet and work with people I love. The capacity to endure great loss, and the capacity to survive the wheel of fortune is something that the entertainment industry requires of everyone in it. There is something admirable, mixed-in with all that is detestable, in those who seem determined to survive even if it means re-creating themselves. In their best moments the people I work with can not escape how meaningless their work is. Yet they still persevere, hoping for something better. I don't know if I have surpassed the 500 word requirement, but I don't feel particularly interested in anything else I have to say. I love bulldogs. I have an eighth month old bulldog right now, and I am planning on buying a female for him to mate with. That's about it. I read Shakespeare to experience greatness, to participate in an experience that will live long after I do. The most memorable moments are those that are painful. That is probably why Shakespeare lasts. Cognitive acuity, power of invention, and linguistic energy, whose apotheosis is Shaksepeare, combine to help us to come to terms with our losses, our limitations, and our deaths. =============================================================================== *Johnson, Nancy I am a happy dilettante who pursues her own interests by teaching one course per semester on the topic of my choosing. My most recent course was an interdisciplinary study of Elizabethan England. ============================================================= *Johnson, Nate English Graduate Student Graduate Field of English, Goldwyn Smith, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 USA 607-272-7133 I am a first year graduate student, currently fighting a losing battle against the tendency of my interests to grow ever wider. (Shakespeare, Renaissance, French drama, Theory, Modern Chinese literature.) I graduated with a B.A. from Whitman College in 1989 and spent two years working for the ACLU of Washington as a legislative assistant and sometime newsletter editor/reporter before coming to Cornell. I also like to write occasional freelance articles on subjects far removed from my academic field. ========================================================================= *Johnson, Nora M. Nora M. Johnson is currently finishing her Ph.D. in English at the University of California at Berkeley. She is at work on _The Author Onstage: Shakespeare's Late Romances and the Sexual Stigma of the Theater_. =============================================================================== *Johnson, Terry I am interested in joining SHAKSPER. I am a graduate student majoring in Literature at the University of Houston Clear Lake. My undergraduate degree is a BS in Education from the University of North Texas, 1966. As you can see, I have been away from the academic community for some time and graduate school is quite a challenge. I hope SHAKSPER can help me obtain current information. =============================================================================== *Johnson-DeBaufre, Eric My name is Eric Johnson-DeBaufre, and I am currently a doctoral candidate in English at Boston University. Although I am relatively new to the field, I have always been intrigued by the role theatre played in Elizabethan and Jacobean England--both affirming and resisting the terms of the dominant discourse. My current research interests reflect many of the things that initially attracted me to the Renaissance: the theatre's relationship to political systems, representations of monarchy, and depictions of the socially marginalized. In my dissertation I hope to chart the ways in which new understandings about visual power and new developments in visual technologies both aided and challenged articulations of absolutism. Changes in theatrical space during the Renaissance will therefore necessarily form a large part of my project. =============================================================================== *Johnston, Belinda My name is Belinda Johnston and I am a PhD candidate in the English Department of the University of Melbourne. I am writing a thesis on witchcraft, statecraft and theatricality in Jacobean England and currently teach in a course which focuses on both Shakespearean texts and the critical, cultural and literary institutions and discourses which have formed around them. =============================================================================== *Johnston, C. Todd I am interested in joining the SHAKSPER list. I am currently a MA student at Carleton University in Ottawa. The main focus of my present study is in Middle English, but I am also enrolled in a course dealing with Renaissance tragedy where two Shakespeare plays are covered (Romeo and Juliet; Othello). My future plans for study involve doctoral research in Old English with particular attention to Anglo-Saxon onomastics and etymology. I received my undergraduate degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax. =============================================================================== *Jones, Cameron Thomas I am a student of English at Dalhousie University, Halifax N.S. Canada. I am in my third year of undergraduate study, and my first year of an honours program. Your site was recommended by my professor as an intriguing place to read on about Shakespeare, and some of the academic communities focuses. It is unlikely that I will be a contributor to the site. My purpose is simply to enjoy what is being written by others. If my interest is sparked I may involve myself more, but as for now it is simply a site of interest. ============================================================= *Jones, Gabriel Gabriel Jones: I am presently a graduate student in English at Northwestern University & have done fairly extensive research on Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage. =============================================================================== *Jones, Gordon Jones, Gordon Professor, Department of English Language & Literature Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Nfld., Canada A1C 5S7. B.A. (Leeds); M.A. (McMaster); Ph.D. (London) Tel. 709-737-8277 (office); 709-726-0805 (home) Interests: Shakespeare; theatre Publications on Shakespeare, Malcolm Lowry, Frederick Rolfe, English language, John Payne Collier, distance-education, Shakespeare on television. Theatrical direction: Measure for Measure, Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice, Love's Labour's Lost, Midsummer Night's Dream, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet. Preparing to direct As You Like It this summer. Regular theatre reviewer for CBC Radio, St, John's (Morning Show) and for the Canadian theatre magazine, Theatrum. 1992 co-winner of Nathan Cohen Award for broadcast theatre reviews awarded by Canadian Theatre Critics Association. Member of Board of Governors of National Theatre School of Canada. Member of Shakespeare Association of America. =============================================================================== *Jones, Jordan I am a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor and essayist. For five years, I have edited and published BAKUNIN, a literary/arts journal "for the dead Russian anarchist in all of us." We publish poetry, fiction, essays, black and white visual arts, book reviews, plays, etc. While many of the pieces in BAKUNIN reflect the magazine*s iconoclastic leftist politics of racial, social, and sexual commentary, BAKUNIN is certainly not a predictable and politically correct magazine. We publish well-executed pieces that confront the complex pains and joys of being alive. We are as open to the apolitical as we are to the boldly political. My interest in Shakespeare is only budding. Although I have a BA in Honors in English (California State University, Northridge, 1987) and an MA in English (Creative Writing Emphasis, UC Davis, 1991), I have only read the poems and a half dozen of the plays. Feeling a lack, I am beginning to dive into the seemingly unfathomable works of English literature: those of Shakespeare, Joyce, and Melville. I am primarily interested in the presentation of the darker side of human nature in these authors. =============================================================================== *Jones, Joseph Name: Joseph Jones Title: Reference Librarian Institution: University of British Columbia Library Graduate work in English at the University of Toronto with concentration in Jacobean drama. Then library school at the University of British Columbia with a focus on bibliography. Recent work on Martianus Capella and the Hebrew Bible. Ongoing project is a reference guide for Canadian literature in English. =============================================================================== *Jones, Keith Keith Jones: I am a graduate of the University of Alberta with two degrees. My first degree was in Economics, the second was a Bachelor of Fine Arts-Acting degree. I graduated with distinction in 1991 and have been a proffessional actor ever since. I have worked mainly in Western Canada under the direction of Robin Phillips (Citadel Theatre), Jim Guedo (Phoenix Theatre), and many other talented directors. I am interested in learning about productions of Shakespear's work and their interpretations around the world. I have my own Theatre company (Janus Theatre) and may wish to tackle one of his plays someday as a director. Needless to say this discussion group would be invaluable to me for this reason. i am also interested in learning more about the opening of The Globe in London. A few colleagues and I are toying with the idea of going there for the opening. I have only written papers at the undergraduate level on Shakespear. =============================================================================== *Jones, Ken Name: Ken Jones Surface Mail Address: 22, Durham Road North Harrow Middlesex HA1 4PG U.K. Email Address: kjones@bowsher.demon.co.uk Telephone: (U.K.) 081 427 5060 Fax: (U.K.) 081 248 4631 Mobile: (U.K.) 0585 423815 Occupation: Retired (plus a little management consultancy work) Career History: Stage Manager, English Stage Company, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London Employee Relations Manager, Marks & Spencer plc. Interests: Theatre; Shakespeare; Family History; Classical Guitar; Cooking Shakespearian Concerns: Shakespeare as a theatrical animal - the way the plays work in the theatre - the resonance of language - the pace and versatility of the Elizabethan playhouse - the identification of the correct text. P.S. Born on April 23rd (!) =============================================================================== *Jones, Louise I am Louise Conley Jones, Assistant Professor in English and Theatre at William Penn College, 201 Trueblood Ave. Oskaloosa, IA 52577. This Fall I will have published, STAGE ACTION AS METAPHOR, which contends that Marlowe's work is not understood fully unless it is performed, and includes a director's book of Marlowe's DOCTOR FAUSTUS. I have also published an article comparing Havel's TEMPTATION with Marlowe's DOCTOR FAUSTUS. I am currently (and have taught) Shakespeare; I have directed several Shakespearean plays for both university and community theatre, including an outdoor 1914 version of MUCH ADO this past summer which earned an Iowa Humanties Grant. I hold a Ph.D. in British Literature (before 1700) from Ball State Univ. with special emphasis on Theatre in Performance. I am most interested in creative and innovative ways to perform Shakespeare and look forward to sharing with online colleagues.jonesl@wmpenn.edu =============================================================================== *Jones, Nicholas Nicholas Jones is Associate Professor of English at Oberlin College (Dept. of English, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH 44074). E-mail address: Nicholas.Jones@oberlin.edu. Web page: www.oberlin.edu/~njones. His teaching is divided between courses in Shakespeare and in British Romantic Literature. He has been involved in teaching drama (and Shakespeare in particular) through performance, Shakespeare and Film, and a general education (non-English major) course (Introduction to Shakespeare), as well as Oberlin's standard Shakespeare courses. His scholarly work currently centers on women writers in the early 19th century. He has published articles in the Dictionary of Literary Biography on Felicia Hemans, Mary Russell Mitford, Mary and William Howitt, and Hannah More, and has given numerous conference papers on the life and work of Hemans. He is at work on a biography of Hemans. His earlier scholarship includes papers on Milton and Herbert and a book on the sermon in Puritan America. =============================================================================== *Jones, Renee My name is Renee Jones, and I'm excited about finding people who share my excitement for Shakespeare. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and have a BA in literature. I am an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher. I work for a private language school and primarily teach Japanese expats. My students range in age from 7 to 50 and are students, homemakers, and professionals. In college my primary interest was in 18th century satire (Pope, Swift, & Dryden), and I seriously neglected Shakespeare. The movie "Twelfth Night" prompted me to read (and study) the play again for the first time in 10 years. This time around I got so much more out of it than I had in college, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Since then, I have fallen in love with Shakespeare and have been going through the plays on my own and seeing as many different productions as possible. The comedies are my favorites; I am especially interested in the figurative language and the allegorical aspects of the plays. ============================================================= *Jones, Rick Rick Jones Dept. of Theatre & Communications Studies, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA 52314 Phone: 319-895-4233 FAX: 319-895-4492 e-mail: rjones@cornell-iowa.edu. My name is Rick Jones; I am currently Assistant Professor of Theatre and Communications Studies at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. I earned my AB with various honors at Dartmouth College, and my MA by thesis at the University of Birmingham, England. My thesis examined the relationship of John Lyly, perhaps Shakespeare's most important English comic predecessor, with the private theatre audience for which he wrote. I subsequently spent an extended season in summer stock, taught for three years at Union College in Kentucky, entered the doctoral program in Theatre Arts at Cornell University (where I'm still ABD), and then moved to Iowa to accept my current position. As one of two full-time theatre people here, I have taught the majority of our theatre history and dramatic literature courses (including all of the department's pre-modern offerings), and have taken on production responsibilities as a director, designer, technician, and actor. (I've also taught acting, directing, and tech courses.) My experience with Shakespearean production is rather limited: one role as an actor, a few scenes with undergraduate actors as a director or acting coach. Most of my current work is focussed in other areas: I'm a member of the executive committee of the Theatre as a Liberal Art forum of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and have concentrated most of my attention there for the past year or two. I do continue to maintain memberships in the Speech Communication Association, Classical Association of the Middle West & South, and American Conference for Irish Studies -- none of them, clearly, particularly Shakespeare-related. I've published reviews in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, and Classical World, am awaiting publication of my article on fine arts practicum courses in a collection of essays to be published by the University of North Texas Press, and am currently working on an chapter on Synge for the Greenwood Press. I would, however, like to renew my work on the private theatres in England in the late 16th century, and to extend this analysis to Shakespeare's various theatres. I don't consider myself a member of any particular school of criticism, but I suppose I'm more Marxist-structuralist than anything else. I look forward to joing the SHAKSPER list as a means of following through on my interest in Renaissance theatre in general, and in Shakespeare and his contemporaries in particular. ============================================================================= *Jones, Roland My name is Roland Jones. I am a Secondary Education English/Philosophy student at Arizona State University. Shortly I will begin working on a Masters in English Literature. I am unpublished but hope to be able to do so in the near future. Currently, I am involved with a group working on multimedia educational materials for a college-level Shakespeare course. My interests involve the use of technology to analyze, teach and learn about literature; the study of social issues in Shakespeare (especially in opposition to some more recent views of Othello and Merchant); a newfound understanding of the history plays; and a general love for the texts and desire to quench a personal appetite for learning. ============================================================= *Jones, Terry My name is Terry Jones. I enjoy reading and studying Shakespeare. Although I am an actress for love (CPA for money), I have only played one small role in a Shakespearean production - the problem of very few roles for women! I enjoy attending Shakespeare plays, and have participated in various Shakespeare reading groups and classes. I live in Arlington, Virginia and would welcome the opportunity to get together and see Shakespeare performed with others in the Washington, D.C. area. =============================================================================== *Jordan, Meg My name is Meg Jordan and I am currently an undergraduate student at California State University, Sacramento, though I plan to transfer to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in two years to major in Journalism. I am presently taking a course in summer school which studies Shakespeare's later plays, including Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, and The Tempest. I am interested in Shakespeare's plays both for their literary and theatrical content, as I have a background in both areas. My main intention on joining this list is to observe the discussion, as I am relatively new to studying Shakespeare's plays, although I hope to join in on the discussions as my knowledge increases. ============================================================= *Jordan, Richard D. Senior Lecturer in English Department of English University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC 3052 AUSTRALIA Telephone (03)344 4000 On exchange in 1992 to: School of Humanities and Social Sciences Ballarat University College Ballarat, VIC 3353 AUSTRALIA Telephone (053)33-9368 Born: Omaha, Nebraska 29 April 1943 Education: Omaha Central High School; Wayne [Nebraska] State College, B.F.A.Ed.; Michigan State University, M.A., Ph.D. [Supervisor: Prof. Joseph H. Summers: Doctoral thesis: Thomas Traherne] Teaching experience: Michigan State University (Graduate Assistant in English) Middle Tennessee State University University of Western Australia University of Melbourne Ballarat University College Publications: The temple of eternity: Thomas Traherne's Philosophy of Time. Literature in context. The quiet hero: figures of temperance in Spenser, Donne, Milton and Joyce. Article and notes on Milton, Herbert, Joyce, Traherne, Spenser. Current teaching areas: Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, American literature, Australian literature. Current research interests: Meditation and seventeenth-century literature; nineteenth-century Australian literature. ======================================================================= *Jowett, John I was sand-grown near Blackpool, Lancashire, UK, took my BA and MA at Newcastle upon Tyne, and studied for my doctorate at Liverpool. My thesis was a critical edition of Henry Chettle's "Tragedy of Hoffman". I subsequently became an editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works, and then an associate general editor of the forthcoming Oxford edition of Thomas Middleton's Collected Works. The Companion volume to the Middleton edition will include my study of Middleton's early readers. I am also at present editing "Richard III" for the World's Classics series. Articles I have had published include pieces on text and textuality in Shakespeare, Chettle, Jonson, and Middleton, and I am Shakespeare Survey's current reviewer of Shakespeare editions and textual studies. My first full-time teaching position was at the University of Waikato, New Zealand (1987-92). It was followed by a year at Glasgow University, and I became a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute in 1993. Here I contribute to the MA and Postgraduate Diploma courses as well as to the undergraduate teaching in Birmingham. I supervise a number of research students, some of whom are working in the fields of bibliography, editing, and textual study. ============================================================= *Juengling, Charles F Fritz Juengling TA German Dept. U of MN I am a philologist at the U of Mn, just completing my MA. I took my exams in Old English and Gothic. My main interests are in Old, Middle and E Mod English, as well as Modern English dialects. I am particularly interested in studying old texts for linguistic features, esp. dialect. I am presently working on the settlement history for the Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Northwest. When I am finished with my studies in MN, I would like to relocate to the PNW to take up dialect study there. My interest in Shaksper is to familiarize myself with works and people who have to do with the BARD. My literary background is not as strong as my linguistic and I would like to make up for that in this small way. =============================================================================== *Jukovsky, Martin I'm an editor at a high-tech consulting firm in downtown Boston. Before this I edited a section of a computer magazine and did technical editing for a computer manufacturer. I also edited a journal of photography history and criticism for a couple of years. I live in Cambridge, Mass., with my wife and two public-school-aged daughters. I am interested in all aspects of Shakespeare, particularly adaptations to film. =============================================================================== *Jukovsky, Marty Presently a full-time editor at a high-tech consulting firm in Boston. Was Buyers Guide Editor at IDG's *Digital News* (1990-1992). Was tech editor at Bull HN (1987-1990). Edited *Views* (photo criticism & history journal) for the New England Photographic Resource Center (1982-1984). Founder and editor of *Sprite*, the BCS Commodore User Group's magazine (1984-1987). Published works includes film criticism, poetry, software/hardware reviews, and medical articles. B.A. in film, City College of New York, 1968. Currently a Mac user at home and at work. =============================================================================== *Jung, Hae-Ryong I am interested in studying Shakespeare as our contemporary, especially what he means to us, Koreans. ============================================================= *Jung, Jimmy I was interested in the Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference. I'm a grad student at the University of Maryland and am probably only interested in eavesdropping on the conversations. =============================================================================== *Junger, Peter D. INTERNET: --or-- BITNET: Case Western Reserve University Law School Cleveland, Ohio My name is Peter D. Junger and I am a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. I am quite active on Humanist, but would not expect to be a very active member of this list. My A.B. degree was in English, but that, I fear, will not suffice as a qualification for membership. My major scholarly interest is in the evolution of common law remedies, and this does not seem to me to be unrelated to the evolution of literary genres. It helps me if I can get a `feel' for the way people thought about technical legal issues in earlier times--I need something like the `negative capability' that Keat's ascribes to Shakespear. At least one play, the Merchant of Venice, gives a remarkable insight into the way ordinary Englishmen (but not Venetians) understood `bonds' (or `obligations') in Shakespear's time. I am not sure what I will get from the list, but I am pretty sure that there is something there for me. I am, however, doubtful whether I can give much in return. ======================================================================== *Justice, Hilary K. Research interests include British Literature at the rise and decline of the Empire, Anglo-Italian cross-cultural colonization, Hemingway's short fiction, and Drama. =============================================================================== *