Kaegi, Ann My principal research interests are in the area of early modern drama. History plays (broadly defined) are a particular interest as are rhetorical forms of persuasion in early modern English culture. I have worked as a lecturer for several years, principally at Staffordshire University and also briefly at Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds, lecturing on English Renaissance Literature, the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Canadian Fiction. This past year I completed a doctorate at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, England. My thesis, entitled "Political Persuasions: Rhetoric, Power and History in Shakespeare," investigates the political and ideological significance of the dynamic of persuasion in Shakespeare's English history and Roman plays. ============================================================= *Kagan, Shirley We would very much like to become members of your Shakespeare service. My husband, Matthew Dubroff, and I are ardent fans of the Bard and have had several occassions to direct and act in productions of his works around the world. We are currently graduate students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Matt is getting his M.F.A. in Asian Theatre Directing and I am getting mine in Directing. This August we staged "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as a free outdoor production. It was a lot of fun and very successful. Besides this, I put together a Shakespeare project for which I received honors upon graduation from Williams College in 1989. =============================================================================== *Kahn, Drew My name is Drew Kahn and I teach voice, movement and acting at Buffalo State College (SUNY system). I received my M.F.A. in Acting from Southern Methodist University and my B.A. in Theatre at San Diego State University. I have been fortunate to act off-broadway, regionally, various Shakespeare festivals, feature films, and television (most of the T.V./Film was to support my Shakespeare habit)--I was fortunate to have been introduced to Shakepeare by Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenberg--they exposed me to and infected me with their love of language and Shakespeare. My specific interest lies in delivering his plays to a contemporary audience, thus relishing the language and ability to pinpoint the human condition and and releasing the "traditional" means of performance--the process of defining and redifining the palatable format for Shakespeare in performance is very exciting to me--dk =============================================================================== *Kamen, Jack M. Jack M. Kamen:I am a virtually retired physician whose past publications have been exclusively medicine related. The single exception is a review of 'Shylock', published in the 'Jewish Post and Opinion' weekly (1/10/96). I am submitting same to seek entry to SHAKSPER. Although I have held faculty appointments at Northwestern University and the Indiana University School of Medicine, they were, again, in the field of biological science. My intense interest in Shakespeare and matters Shakesperean ignited about fifteen years ago after attending seminars sponsored by the University of Chicago. These were conducted as a prelude to trips to the Canadian Stratford Theatres. My wife and I have attended near to all the Shakesperean plays presented there and in the Chicago area. I have read the entire canon and much tangential literature and would desire to join your group to enter into , and sample the waters, of the current mainstream of Shakesperean criticism. =============================================================================== *Kamholtz, Jonathan I am a colleague of Bill Godshalk's at the University of Cincinnati. I would like to become a member of SHAKSPER. Jonathan Kamholtz Associate Professor, Department of English University of Cincinnati Cincinnati OH 45221-0069 =============================================================================== *Kapitaniak, Pierre I teach English literature and Shakespeare at the University of Le Mans (France) and prepare a PhD at the University of Sorbonne (Paris) on Renaissance drama. The subject of my thesis is ghost-lore and its representation on stage from 1576 to 1642. My main interest in examining nearly a hundred plays is to establish the differences between the ghost-lore of the time and the figure of the stage-ghost such as was used by the dramatists. The hypothesis is that there are religious and political interests at stake which affect the use of such supernatural devices. I intend to finish the PhD by the end of 1999, and am constantly looking for new sources of the period dealing with ghosts or alluding to them. I am also part of a research group at the Sorbonne which focuses on the VOICE and MUSIC in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. ============================================================= *Kaplan, D. I am a real estate executive who resides in the Hartford, Connecticut area. I obtained a B.A. degree from Williams College in 1981. Since graduating college, I have attended several graduate level literature courses at both the University of Virginia and Trinity College, Hartford, although I do not possess a graduate degree. I have seen all of Shakespeare's plays at least twice in live performances at Stratford-upon-Avon, England, Stratford, Ontario (to which I have traveled every year since 1987), New York, and other locations. I have attempted to keep abreast of Shakespearean criticism since attending graduate school, but I have done so with only limited satisfaction and success due to time constraints. I would hope to make more time available for both reviewing and contributing information to "Shaksper" if you were to accept me as a subscriber. =============================================================================== Iyengar, Sujata I'm an advanced graduate student in the English department at Stanford University. =============================================================================== *Kasten, Sydney My last academic effort in Shakespeare was a term paper in second premeds (University of Toronto - graduated 1957) over forty years ago on the radio as being an appropriate medium for conveying Shakespearean drama. Since then my experience in Shakespeare has been that of a consumer. Trained as a psychiatrist (University of Toronto and the Royal Cologe of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada), and having spent the last thirty seven years attempting to cleanse stuffed bosoms of that perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart using whatever sweet delerious antidote available, I have been repeatedly impressed by Shakespeare's facility and accuracy in depicting clinical states and the convolutions of human intercourse. The phenomenon of the man himself must engage any student of the human mind. My collection of Shakespearean video casettes numbers twenty five including different productions of particular plays, as well as musical versions by Mendelssohn, Verdi, Tchaikhovsky, Prokofiev and Bernstein. I have seen performances in Stratford, Ontario and in Stratford-on-Avon. In searching for other pertinent facts to flesh out this biography I might offer that the city of my birth, Toronto, was onced called York. My present abode is Jerusalem, and God willing I will, in His good time, achieve the aspiration of the Lancastrian king. =============================================================================== *Kathman, David J. My name is David J. Kathman (Dave for short), and I am a graduate student in Linguistics at the University of Chicago, planning to complete my Ph.D in Spring of 1994. My longstanding interest in Shakespeare is primarily that of an amateur, in that I have not published anything on Shakespeare, but my scholarly training in linguistics has, I think, given me the kind of critical tools which would allow me to interact with the professional Shakespearean community without too much presumption, especially when it comes to such linguistics-related areas as attribution studies. My primary interests are in Shakespearean biography and the history of Elizabethan/ Jacobean England, though I'll read anything related to Shakespeare or other Elizabethan playwrights that catches my eye. I've been reading a lot lately on the anti-Stratfordians and their arguments, and have found that these arguments largely rely on ignorance of Elizabethan cultural history (e.g. the shopworn anti-Stratfordian arguments about the spelling of Shakespeare's name and the lack of school records, both of which collapse utterly when looked at in the proper context). I've also been fascinated by the various computer-aided attribution studies that have been worked on in the last few years, though I have neither the time nor the resources to do such studies myself. I was particularly fascinated, as I'm sure many Shakespeareans were, by Donald Foster's reports on the roles Shakespeare prpbably played in his own plays, and the implications this may have for Shakespeare's biography. I've also followed with interest the reports of the archeological digs at the sites of the Globe and the Rose. Such things give one hope that there are still new things to be discovered about Shakespeare, even after 400 years, and that excites me. As I mentioned above, I have not published anything relating to Shakespeare, but have toyed with the idea of doing an exhaustive study of the spelling and pronunciation of Shakespeare's name. This is an area I first started looking into as a result of my reading the anti-Stratfordian literature, but it would presumably have some interest for all Shakespeareans, and my training in linguistics would give me some claim to expertise. Such projects will, however, have to await the completion of my dissertation, which has nothing to do with Shakespeare. I can be reached by snail mail at the Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, 1010 E. 59th St., Chicago, IL 60637. David J. Kathman djk1@midway.uchicago.edu =============================================================================== *Katka, Bill My name is Bill katka. Presently I am teaching English, Speech and Theatre at Dublin Christian Academy in Dublin, New Hampshire. DCA is a secondary college preparatory school located in the Mount Monadnock Region of Southwestern New Hampshire. My chief involvement in Shakespeare has been in acting and directing. While a graduate assistant (M.A. in Dramatic Production) an Bob Jones University in South Carolina, I acted in various Shakespearean productions and assistant directed others. I am interested in recent research and information about things Shakspearean for use in the English classroom and for use in theatre classes. I am toying with the idea of further studies in theatre and Shakespeare would be my probable study goal if I should decide to work on an advanced degree. So, I am also interested in SHAKSPER with the idea of surveying and staying up with current research in the field. =============================================================================== *Kato, Michiyo My name is Michiyo Kato. I am a Japanese student at the Shakespeare Institute, the University of Birmingham. I finished the postgraduate diploma in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute in the end of September 1998 and have just started my research for the MPhil degree from October. Therefore, I have never published anything in my life yet. My research topic for the MPhil degree is "the Emblem of the Phoenix in Shakespeare's Poems and Plays." My interests involve emblems, iconography, cultural contexts in Elizabethan and Jacobean times, political and social usages of icons and emblems in those days, the cult of Elizabeth I, the treatments of death and rebirth in 16th to 17th centuries and so on. ============================================================= *Katz, Alan Name: Alan H. Katz Company: Wyeth-Ayerst Research Occupation: Computer-Assisted Drug Design Phone: 908-274-4531 Education: BS Chemistry (SUNY@Buffalo), 1978 PhD Chemistry (Princeton), 1983 Although my research interest are in the field of chemistry, I have a strong personal interest in Shakespeare. Probably the best evidence for this is my collection of audio recordings of the various plays. I now have roughly 40 different recordings of roughly 25-30 of the plays (I am always looking for something new, but it isn't easy to find on the open market). I also have a rather bizzare interest in studying foreign language versions of some of the plays. I find this an interesting way of learning a new language ( since I know the translation so well). It also provides an interesting interpertation on the english meaning since the literal translations are often very simple and modern (eg. in english: "lend me your ears", in german "hort mich an" or "listen to me"). =============================================================================== *Kausikan, Kalyani I am (Ms)Kalyani P S Kausikan of the Republic of Singapore, where I am a teacher at St Andrew's Junior College. The College which has a student population of 1800 (ages 16 - 18) offers a 2 year A level education following the syllabus of the Cambridge University Examinations Syndicate. I lecture and tutor English literature as well as a subject known as the General Paper. In fact, I lecture the Shakespeare component of the syllabus. I have a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English literature conferred by the National University of Singapore. My academic exercise (dissertation) was on the Detective Novel as Comedy of Manners ( specifically the works of Dorothy L Sayers) I also have a post-graduate Diploma-in-Education conferred by the National Institute of Education, Singapore. I am also a founder member ( and Resident Lighting Designer) of a local professional English langauge theatre company Theatreworks. Some of our productions have toured Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom. Apart from my professional interest as an English literature lecturer in how best to introduce adolescents to Shakespeare and develop their critical faculties with regard to responses to texts, I am also interested in production adaptations of Shakespearean texts particularly in Asian contexts. It is my wish to, someday, see Singaporean adaptations. In fact, one that I feel has relevance to our local context is Othello. =============================================================================== *Kaye, David I have recently finished school, having effectively majored in English Literature, History, French and Philosophy. I am taking a year out before going to St John's College, Oxford in October 1997. I wanted to join this list because during my past few years of study I have developed a real interest in and love for Shakespeare. I have concentrated mainly on the tragedies, particularly "King Lear", "Hamlet" and "Othello". I would like to gain insight into modern, informed perspectives on Shakespeare and his work. Most recently I have been developing my ideas on the ethical and moral 'messages' of Shakespeare's work with reference to the tragedies. The role of God and the pagan Gods has also been an interest of mine. =============================================================================== *Kean, Jeff Jeff Kean: I am Artistic Director of the Harbor Playhouse in Corpus Christi, TX USA. I hold a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from UNC Greensboro. I have been a professional director/designer since 1979, taught theatre arts in the Penn State system for two years, am a Managing Partner of the Tennessee Stage Co., and Founder and first Artistic Director of the East Tennessee Shakespeare in the Park in Knoxville TN. My interests are primarily in performance and text analysis for performance. My career has not allowed me nearly enough exposure to in-depth study or collaboration with top professionals. Designing one's career in this field has more to do with wishing on a star than any coherent plan of attack but I hope to be able to affiliate with an organization devoted to classical works and Shakespearean production in particular. All that and make a living! I have no published articles to contribute but I do have a theatre with an audience hungry for well-produced Shakespeare. =============================================================================== *Keane, Thomas I, Thomas Keane, am a student in Dr. Boni's Engl. 330 class which is studying Shakespeare's comedies and romances. I am beginning to look for topics on "The Tempest" for a research paper due in December. According to some of the other students this discussion group is a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration. =============================================================================== *Kearns, Terrance B. Terrance. B. Kearns, Chair Dept. of English University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 (501) 450-5103 Biographical sketch: Born: Staten Island, NY; 7-15-46 Education: Mt. St. Joseph H.S., Baltimore, MD 1964 B.A., College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., 1968 Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1978 (Diss.: "Prisoner to the Palsy": A Study of Shakespeare's History Plays Director: Charles R. Forker) Academic employment: since 1974, Dept. of English, University of Central Arkansas. Current position: professor and chair. Current interests: Shakespeare's history plays, _Coriolanus_, computer applications in the humanities. =============================================================================== *Kearsley, Chad D. 1521 East Franklin St., Apt. B107 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919) 968-2597 M.A. Candidate Department of English University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill There's no point hiding the fact that I'm a novice entering the demesne of Shakespearean scholars far beyond my meager abilities. I'm currently working on my M.A. at Carolina and intend to proceed on, with any luck, to the Ph.D. I was graduated with a B.A. in English and Scandinavian Studies by Brigham Young University in 1991. I am currently looking at Shakespeare's use of pageantry in the drama as a reflection of Renaissance political uses of pageantry as means to assert power structures. Also, I have recently been awarded a Fulbright Grant for 1992-93 to study and research the work of Henrik Ibsen at the Ibsen Center at the University of Oslo, Norway. Research Interests and Topics: Pageantry in the Renaissance Power Structures and the Drama Theatre History Theory of the Drama ========================================================================= *Keegan, Susan I hold an M.A. in English from Sonoma State University (1993) and currently teach at both Sonoma State and at Mendocino College. This semester, Spring 1997, I will be teaching a distance education section of Shakespeare for Mendocino College. This is my second semester teaching the class, and the last time I taught, I relied heavily upon the discussions and resources of SHAKSPER to fuel my thinking. =============================================================================== *Keegan, Susan Susan Keegan (M.A. 1993, Sonoma State University) is a part-time instructor of English at Mendocino College in Ukiah, CA. In addition to both freshman and developmental composition classes, during the Spring '95 semester, she will teach a media Shakespeare class. She is looking for both inspiration and information in preparation for this undertaking. =============================================================================== *Keever, Tom Dale _New York Shakespeare Festival_ British Captain - Cymbeline ( Dir: JoAnne Akalaitis ) _Florida Shakespeare Theatre_ Benedick - Much Ado About Nothing The Duke - Two Gentlemen of Verona _Mabou Mines_ Alchemy Announcer - Dead End Kids _Virginia Shakespeare Festival_ Buckingham - Richard III Lord Dumaine - All's Well That Ends Well Robert - Merry Wives of Windsor _National Shakespeare Company_ Buckingham - Richard III Capulet - Romeo and Juliet Solinus / Pinch - Comedy of Errors _ Chamber Theater (National Tour)_ Mark Twain - Mark Twain Sketches _Tufts Arena Theater (Guest Artist)_ Porter Milgram - Deathtrap Senator Hedges - Born Yesterday _Jean Cocteau Repertory_ Macbeth - Macbeth Claudius - Hamlet Antonio - The Tempest Silvius - As You Like It Hardcastle - She Stoops to Conquer Cradeau - No Exit Botard - Rhinoceros Ferovius - Androcles and the Lion Lord Lovell- A New Way to Pay Old Debts Marzio - The Cenci Lind - Love's Comedy Richard Talbott - The Scarecrow Captain of the Guard-The Brass Butterfly Tigellinus-Salome Donado - 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Magistrate - Volpone Don Arias - Le Cid Hoboy - A Mad World, My Masters Briquet - He Who Gets Slapped Santa Cruz - Ruy Blas Alibius - The Changeling Aesoppus - The Roman Actor The Hawaiian Lady - In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel _NY Metropolitan Opera_ Roberti - Tosca (dir: Zeffirelli) _Off-Off-Broadway_ Pontius Pilate - The Master and Margarita ( van Italie ) Beacon Project: Lussurioso - The Revengers Tragedy Pelican Company: Sir Toby Belch - Twelfth Night Solstice: Davy Dahumma - A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Theco: God/Military Recruiter - The Journal of Albion Moonlight Jewish Repertory: Journeyman - Andorra Brooklyn Heights Players: Richard Greatham - Hay Fever _Film and Television_ Radio Days, See You in the Morning, The Equalizer, Law and Order, Street Smart, The Believers, Leg Work, Stations (Dir: Robert Wilson) _Solo Performance_ Lord Buckley: Hight Priest of the Church of the Living Swing _Set Designer_ Jean Cocteau Repertory: Exit the King Creation Productions: Ice Station Zebra Creation / LaMama ETC: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Queens Circle: Talley's Folly House of Candles: The Balcony _Lighting Designer_ La Gran Scena Opera, Edinburgh and Manchester Festivals Prandit Pran Nath, N. Indian Vocal Concerts, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine Downtown Ballet, Encuentro III, 1992 Pilar Rioja, Spanish and Flamenco Dance, national tours _Additional Experience_ Instructor, National Shakespeare Conservatory Moderator, MindVox "Theater" Forum =============================================================================== *Keilen, Sean Philip My name is Sean Keilen. I am a first year doctoral student in Stanford University's Department of English. I received my first BA from Williams College in English and Latin (1992). Last June, I took my MA in English from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where I had been a Herchel Smith Scholar for two years. Presently, I hold a Jacob K Javits fellowship for graduate study. I am a member of the Dante Society of America, whose Dante Prize I won in 1993 for an essay about Ovid's presence in the /Commedia/. One of my Master's dissertations at Cambridge, called "Domestick Privacies and Exterior Appendages: Johnsonian Biography and the Swiftian Self" won the /Cambridge Quarterly/ Prize for best submission to the Faculty of English at Cambridge; it is published in the Spring volume of the /Quarterly/ this year. This term, I am at work on a piece about Shakespeare and humanist pedagogy under the direction of Stephen Orgel. Later this summer, I will begin a project on Elizabethan and Stuart representations of Ireland under the direction of Patricia Parker. In general, my work concerns the recuperation and use of classical texts by Early Modern English authors. =============================================================================== *Keinanen, Neky Nely Keinanen Senior Lecturer, Department of English University of Helsinki, Finland Degree: Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1993 Dissertation Title: "Female Bonds in Shakespeare's Plays" Director: Michael Shapiro (Carol Neely and Richard Wheeler, committee) My dissertation examines Shakespeare's representations of bonds between female friends, mistresses and servants, and mothers and daughters in the context of early modern discourses on female friendship, focusing specifically on the ways female characters mediate for one another. Although the majority of Renaissance theorists of friendship assumed that women were incapable of forming bonds with each other, we find in Shakespeare's work a complex array of female friendships. Bonds between women in Shakespeare primarily function to elicit and channel female desire towards the appropriate man as defined by the woman; depending on the genre, these efforts are met with applause (comedy), uneasiness (problem play), derision and death (tragedy), or acceptance (romance). Shakespeare's female friendships thus function both to support patriarchal ideals (in that women seek heterosexual bonds) and to challenge them (since the women question the male prerogative to exchange women). In order to understand how Shakespeare's representations of female friendship might function culturally, in producing and/or challenging ideas about female friendship, I read his plays in relation to important works by women writers, including Mary Wroth and Elizabeth Cary, which contain similar plots or themes. By reading these works together, the study contributes to our understanding of how ideas about female friendship and female mediation were articulated in early modern England. Since finishing my dissertation and taking up my teaching post in Finland, I've mainly been working to expand my knowledge of women's attitudes towards friendship, so I've been reading letters and other material written by women. I've also been thinking about the ways we can read these texts together, or across one another, so I've been reading the works of new-historicist and feminist theorists. I'm interested in questions of subjectivity and power, mainly in the ways that pairs or groups of women could establish identities in relation to each other and not only in relation to men (as daughters or wives), and in how they could work together to get what they wanted. Thus I've been looking at instances of female mediation, where one woman actively tries to help another woman. I'm also interested in the theater, and even had my own small theater company in graduate school, where I directed _Epicoene_ and _The Devil is an Ass_. The production of _Epicoence_ was done with cross-gender casting, which was quite fun (and made possible's Epicoene's dramatic unveiling at the end). That's about it: I've done a couple of conference presentations, but I haven't as yet published anything. I'm hoping that this list will help me keep up with what's happening across the Atlantic and elsewhere, particularly what's happening in Europe. =============================================================================== *Keith, Rhonda I have a master's degree in English from the University of Akron (Ohio), and did one year of doctoral work at the University of Tulsa, in the studies in women's literature program started by Germaine Greer (I didn't finish; was raising two sons). My one and only publication in a scholarly journal was a note in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, on a Shakespearean allusion by Jane Austen ("tender and chilly"). I had no specialty in Shakespeare studies and am not a Shakespearean scholar by any means, but thought this list would be interesting. I saw a production of "Midsummer Night's Dream" in Boston last summer; a simple and very beautiful production; how could it not be? I now work as a freelance writer and editor, with an oral history publishing business. I subscribe to the copyediting listserve. =============================================================================== *Kellogg, Edward "Zip" Reference Librarian University of Southern Maine Library Portland, Maine I am a reference librarian at the Univ. of Southern Maine Library in Portland, Maine. I deal with students whose questions cover a broad range of subjects. While it is primarily undergrads I deal with, the "clientele" also includes graduate students and faculty. I have an M.L.S. which I received from Southern Ct. State U. in 1980 after having graduated from Gettysburg College a year before with a major there in comparative religion. This year at age 40 I decided it was time to take a closer look at Shakespeare than one is afforded by the typical high school treatment of Macbeth. Why it took me until 40 I'm not sure (I'm a little slow sometimes) but I sure discovered I was ready and enjoyed the class I took here immensely. So I'm a neophyte but an interested one. Over the years I've traveled widely (Stratford, etc.) and have attended many a performance of W.S., and now feel ready to take a much closer look at what he has to offer. For these reasons and because I'll have several questions for the network as well, I look forward to membership. =============================================================================== *Witmore, Mike I received my BA in English in 1989, and am interested in two issues (in particular) in the Bard's plays. The first is the role of visual perception and observation in the plays ("ocular proofs")--both those of the players and of the audience. The second area that intrigues me is the way Nature is figured in the plays. I will soon be a graduate student at Berkeley where I will be studying Rhetoric. My scholarly interests are in the rhetoric of scientific inquiry, and the particularities of the scientific discourse on Nature. While my current interests are in the history of geology and natural theology, I keep returning to Shakespeare's work because he seems to understand so well how mutable, mute, and resistant Nature is to those who try to understand it. =============================================================================== *Walker, Jae or Programmer Analyst SIS Project, Michigan State University I received my B.A. from Michigan State University in Arts and Letters in 1975 (dual major of Theater and English). At the time Shakespeare was my primary area of interest. As with so many other Liberal Arts graduates, I am now gainfully employed far from my original major - I am a Programmer Analyst for Michigan State University, toiling away to automate registration for the Office of Financial Aids (my current employer). I have no scholarly publications, and my enjoyment of Shakespeare is greatest in performance, where I deeply believe Shakespeare belongs. I fear that the "literary" aura of Shakespeare frightens away the very sort of people the plays were originally written to entertain. Mind you, I'm not claiming that Shakespeare's works are not literary. Simply that the focus on their "classic" status deprives many of the enjoyment of their musical language. Indeed, I was thrilled to see both Henry V and Hamlet making the voyage to the public eye (even if they did hack Hamlet to little pieces, and focus more than necessary on various portions of the Gibson anatomy). =============================================================================== *Hampsten, Richard F. or North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network I teach Shakespeare regularly, hence am at least a faithful reader. I've done no publishing in the field (all my excess energy is currently going into Chinese). But I would like to make this contact. Special interests: metrics and versification Shakespeare in China. Ph. D. from U of Washington, 1963. =============================================================================== *Milles, Eberly or Ph.D. Candidate, St. Louis University, Department of English BA (English) Louisiana College (1980) MA (English) The University of Texas at Austin (1982) Ph. D. candidate St. Louis University (1991?) I am currently writing my dissertation which is a study of twentieth century criticism on *Twelfth Night* in the light of current critical theory and practice. The dissertation lays the groundwork for a further project--the survey of criticism for The New Variorum Shakespeare Edition of *Twelfth Night* edited by William C. McAvoy. For the past 3 years, I have been assimilating, reading, and analyzing criticism, collating editions, and checking textual notes to assist in the variorum project. In addition to my interest in current criticism, I am interested in the application of computer technology to the future of variorums. The cumulative effect of my dissertation project has been to make me much more interested in Shakespeare and textual editing than when I started. I look forward to the discussions. =============================================================================== *McGarghan, Kimberly J. Computer Operations Digital Equipment Corporation 24 John Street, Apartment 1 Providence, RI 02906 401-453-6877 I'm pursuing an undergraduate degree in English literature. I'm also a historical reenactor who is specializing in the Elizabethan era. I've always enjoyed Shakespeare, whether watching, performing, or reading. I am hoping to continue my studies as a graduate upon receipt of my Bachelor's. I have not yet written any papers about the Bard. I have taken a few courses about the plays. Several of my friends share this interest. I hope to continue my education beyond the undergraduate and am contemplating a Ph.D. in medieval studies, combining literature and history. Additionally, I enjoy language permutations and enjoy the progression from Middle English to present-day usage. I also read Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, ... I write poetry and short fiction in addition to composing songs and stories in the medieval tradition based on contemporary legends. Mundanely I am a senior computer operator seeking employment as a technical writer here at Digital. My role model is Beatrice. :-) ======================================================================== *Kelly, Blair Name: Blair Kelly III Address: 1309 Beltram Court; Odenton, MD 21113-2102 USA e-mail: bfkelly@afterlife.ncsc.mil phone: (410) 674-5968 I am not an academic, just an interested amateur. (By profession, I am an applied mathematician.) Since 1991 I have been a member of the Washington (D.C.) Shakespeare Reading Group, which meets approximately fortnightly to read a work by the Bard. Each member reads a different character, trying to put as much acting into their voice as possible. From 1988-1991 I was a member of the Cheltenham (England) Shakespeare Society, which also reads the works of Shakespeare. Interestingly, the Cheltenham Shakespeare Society seems to be the last surviving chapter of the British Imperial Shakespeare Society which started prior to 1900, had chapters in various parts of the British Empire, but sadly seems to have died around the time of World War II. (At least my Cheltenham friends do not know of any other surviving chapters.) And naturally I have been an active theatre-goer to local Shakespeare productions. I've seen over 100 productions of Shakespeare and am somewhat of an amateur critic. (And I would dearly love to see a production of Henry VIII, so that I could say that I have seen on stage every play in the standard 37 play canon!) =============================================================================== McFadden, David Surface mail: 552 Church Street Box 40 Toronto, Ontario Canada M4Y 2H0 416-972-1940 Now that I know what I'm getting into I still want to get into it. But I must make a horrible confession: I am not a Shakespearean scholar and I have no academic affiliations, in fact no degrees. However, I have managed to wangle an e-mail address at York University (does that count at all?), with a full-access account promised there in the near future. This came about because of my work with high-school creating-writing students in the Writers-in-Electronic-Residence (WIER) program. And that came about in turn because I'm a poet of a certain notoriety, with a long list of books to my credit, most recently _Anonymity Suite_ (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992), _Gypsy Guitar_ (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1989) and _A Trip around Lake Ontario_ (Toronto: Coach House, 1988). I serve on the editorial board of Coach House Press and occasionally take freelance editing jobs. I'm a member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Writer's Union of Canada and PEN International and have been writer in residence at Simon Fraser University, the University of Western Ontario, the Metropolitan Toronto Public Library and the Hamilton Public Library. My interest in Shakespeare has been getting stronger in recent years, and there are interesting Shakespearean references and traces of the Bard in the first two of the three books mentioned above, at least. Last year I devoted myself to reading all of the plays, poems and sonnets, in John Dover Wilson's Cambridge University Press edition, along with Wilson's lovely critical introductions and so on. And I'm currently working off and on, as inspiration strikes, on a Shakespearean suite, a poem based on each of the plays. Three have been completed--"Antony and Cleopatra," "Much Ado about Nothing," "Timon of Athens." "As You Like It" is currently languishing in a state of half-completion as I slave away on the final draft of a book about Ireland with the working title "Among the Rough Rug-Headed Kerns." I've made several pilgrimages to Stratford upon Avon, most recently with my elderly father last June. My favourite Shakespearean film is the 1938(?) Laurence Olivier version of _As You Like It,_ which I've seen about twenty times. And the most wonderful theatrical production I've seen was a version of _Twelfth Night_ put on by an amateur group in a small town in the remote West Kootenay region of British Columbia in 1979. I suspect I'll spend most of my time eavesdropping on the conference, probably getting much more out of it than I could possibly contribute. I hereby promise not to submit any of my poems. But perhaps I'll be able to get involved at some point in the "spontaneous informal discussions" you speak of. I do occasionally come up with original takes--at least they seem original to me--on various aspects of the plays, and maybe I'll work up the courage to offer an idea or two on an informal basis. I hasten to add that I am not one of those poets who scorns the academic crowd. In fact I generally admire academics tremendously and--though, of course, I try not to let them know--I'm usually in awe of them in many ways. I also should add that I'm delighted to hear from your note that the Shaksper conference is much more international in scope than I had imagined. This is exciting! =============================================================================== *Kelly, Jason M. I have just finished my BA in history at the Pennsylvania State University. Next week, I will continue to study history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My emphasis is Early Modern European Cultural History. In October 1996, I presented a paper to the American Society of Semiotics entitled "Rising Sun, Golden Vapors: Alchemy in the Work of J.M.W. Turner." It will be published in an upcoming special issue of The American Journal of Semiotics. Presently, I am working on a paper concerning the use of the dialectic in Shakespeare's Tempest. ============================================================= *Kelly, Jason M. Jason M. Kelly: I have just finished my BA in history at the Pennsylvania State University. Beginning in September, I will continue to study history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My emphasis is Early Modern European History, but I want to emphasize on the intellectual and cultural aspects. In October 1996, I presented a paper to the American Society of Semiotics entitled "Rising Sun, Golden Vapors: Alchemy in the Work of J.M.W. Turner." It will be published in an upcoming special issue of The American Journal of Semiotics. Presently, I am working on a paper concerning the use of the dialectic in Shakespeare's Tempest. ============================================================= *Kelly, Kathleen Kathleen A. Kelly, Ph.D. (Ohio State University), is Associate Professor of English in the Arts and Humanities Division of Babson College, a school of management in Wellesley, Massachusetts (address: Babson Park, MA 02157), where she teaches and publishes in literature, composition, and management writing. A member of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), she has contributed two papers during seminars held at SAA national meetings: "Othello, History and Culture: A Review of Recent Criticism," at the 1993 conference in Atlanta; and "Militarism and Pacifism in Antony and Cleopatra, " at the 1995 conference in Chicago. =============================================================================== *Kelly, Sean K. I am a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton University. I am currently working on a dissertation which is presently entitled "Faulkner, Shakespeare and Other Pagans: Revisiting the Haunts of Justice." This work attempts to define the necessity of reevaluating the position of the "ghost story" in light of contemporary theoretical debates. My areas of specialization are High Modern fiction, ghost stories, and critical theory. My specific interest in Shakespeare is in the figure of the ghost as it evolves through the Elizabethans and into Shakespeare. I am convinced that several vital changes are made by Shakespeare, which can help us to not only reevaluate this figure, but also to rethink the dramatic and the just in relation to a revitalized thinking of the eschatological. =============================================================================== *Kemp, J. Scott I am an English major at Western Carolina University, in Cullowhee, NC. I will graduate at the end of this semester, and will continue to seek my M.A. in English lit. at Western this summer. I already have a degree in computer science, and have been teaching computer science at Tri-County Community College in Murphy, NC for three years. I am using my computer skills and growing knowledge of English literature together now, and hope to teach English at Tri-County early next year. I have taken two 400-level classes on Shakespeare: Engl 450 - Shakespeare's Comedies Engl 450 - Shakespeare's Tragedies and I have read or seen almost every Shakespeare play and read many of his sonnets. Please include me among your subscribers, as I believe that I could contribute from time to time, and would grow from the exposure to so many Shakespeare scholars. =============================================================================== *Kemp, William Professor of English Mary Washington College Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401 USA Telephone: (703) 899-4910 Publications: [edition of] John Marston's The Wonder of Women. Garland Press, 1982. "Animal Communication Systems," Language: Introductory Readings. 4th ed. St. Martin's Press, 1985. Memberships: MLA, SSA, Society for Textual Studies, Computers in the Humanities. Current Project: a hypertext edition of King Lear (Q1 and F1). The edition (modern spelling) is in rough form, the texts entered and links established but typographical and collational errors not fully purged. Also some secondary presentational decisions not yet made (how to handle line numbering, for example). The software vehicle is Owl International's GUIDE; it runs on both Macintosh and MS-DOS platforms and allows distribution of run-time versions. Interests: textual matters and textual theory; Shakespeare's narrative methods; the plays as scripts; teaching Shakespeare; digitized images of Shakespeare and related subjects. ======================================================================= *Kenagy, Roy My name is Roy Kenagy. My undergraduate degree is from Central Missouri State (B.S. in Ed, English, 1970) and I have a library degree is from the University of Illinois (M.S.L.S., 1977). I have worked as a reference librarian, head of adult services, assistant director, and head of public services in medium-to-large public libraries in the Midwest. I am presently a consultant for the State Library of Iowa, based in Des Moines. I specialize in services to youth and in public library collection development, providing onsite consultation to Iowa's 560 public libraries and organizing or teaching about 20-25 continuing education workshops annually. I am interested in maintaining and enhancing the position of the public library as a cultural and educational institution, in the face of pressure to fundamentally recast the library as a business-oriented "information resource," and I work with the department of cultural affairs to encourage cultural activities and programming in public libraries. I have a particular interest in using rhetorical theory to describe how the public library and its collections function as cultural objects, and I am in the outlining stages of a book on that topic. I have maintained an interest in Shakespeare, especially live performance, since my high school days. Attending Shakespeare in performance and keeping in touch with the scholarly literature are my principal avocations, and I look forward to joining SHAKSPER as an effective means of keeping abreast of current scholarly developments. ============================================================= *Kendall, Chris I hold no degrees of any kind, though I studied Theatre Arts at Colorado State University for three years. I am currently employed as a computer programmer at Carl Systems, Inc., the library software people, (I worked extensively on the University of Maryland system, in fact), whence I have my connection to the Internet. I |also work periodically as an actor here in Denver. The only qualifications that I could name are an abiding interest in, and love for, Shakespeare. I have recently undertaken to read the entire canon in chronological order (Oxford edition; I'm up to Troilus and Cressida). I would have preferred to do this reading with a group, where the experience could be seasoned with open discussion. When I saw your group listed, I thought that it might be a forum for such discussion. =============================================================================== *Kendall, Gillian Murray Gillian Murray Kendall is an Associate Professor of English at Smith College. She has written mostly on Shakespeare; some articles are "'Lend Me Thy Hand': Metaphor and Mayhem in Titus Andronicus", Shakespeare Quarterly, Fall, 1989; "Overkill in Shakespeare," Shakespeare Quarterly, Spring, 1992; "Ritual and Identity: THe Edgar-Edmund Combat in King Lear" in True and Maimed Rites, Linda Woodbridge and Edward Berry, eds., University of Illinois Press. She is currently at work on a book-length study of the body as political palimpsest in non-Shakespearean Renaissance tragedy. In her spare time she rides her horse and jumps over increasingly large obstacles. =============================================================================== *Kendrick, Kathleen My name is Kitty Kendrick and I am currently enrolled in a seminar in Shakespearean plays at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Illinois. Professor John Boni, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, suggested that the students in his seminar subscribe to your operation. I am an undergraduate student, who has returned to again work towards my degree, after raising my family and working full time for the last 18 years. My last position was office manager of a nationwide commercial/industrial real estate appraisal firm. I was employed with the firm for a period of eight years. Prior to that I managed a small medical center performing not only managerial duties but x-ray tech, electrocardiograms, minor surgical assistance and phlebotomy. I have taken night school courses along the way as my schedule allowed. I am enjoying Shakespeare for the first time and would very much like to be added to your list. Thank you for your consideration. =============================================================================== *Kennedy, Dennis Dennis Kennedy, PhD Professor of Theatre Arts University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA office 412.1624.6156 fax 412.624.6338 Dennis Kennedy is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Theatre Arts department of the University of Pittsburgh. His books (from Cambridge University Press) include GRANVILLE BARKER AND THE DREAM OF THEATRE, which won the George Freedley Award for theatre history; PLAYS BY HARLEY GRANVILLE BARKER (1987); LOOKING AT SHAKESPEARE, a visual history of 20th century performance (1993); and a forthcoming collection of essays called FOREIGN SHAKESPEARE, on contemporary performance outside the English- sopeaking theatre (due Oct. 1993)> He has given papers at the meetings of MLA, ASTR, SAA, ISA, the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, and elsewhere, and has lectured widely from Katmandu to Los Angeles. His essays have appeared in many theatre and performance studies journals. Twice a fellow of NEH; was Senior Fulbright Lecturer at Univ. of Karachi in Pakistan. His own plays have been performed in London, New York, and at regional theatre across the US, and he has won numerous playwriting honors and awards. He also works frequently as a professional dramaturg, most recently at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, the City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and the Lyric Hammersmith in London. =============================================================================== *Kennedy, Georgina My name is Georgina Kennedy and I am currently studying English at Texas A&M, at the graduate level. My current endeavours include a course in Shakespeare, but my official 'areas of interest' are Old & Middle English Language and Literature, Arthurian Literature, Fiction Writing, and Literature of the Fantastic. As of now (Spring 1997) I am in my second semester as a graduate student; I earned my B.A. at Sarah Lawrence College in 1994. Other literary interests include Greek tragedy, The Inklings (otherwise known as J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, et al), and I seem to be aquiring a taste for Victorian novels. I plan to earn my PhD and become a professor of English as well as a novelist. Although I currently reside in College Station, Texas, I frequently visit South Florida, and I am generally in the New York/New Jersey area once a year. Aside from my classes (and my assistantship), I am recently occupied with the daunting prospect of writing a paper on either Hamlet or Macbeth (I haven't decided which) for Dr. James Harner. Suggestions and/or encouragement are welcome. ============================================================= *Kennedy, Judith M. Biography: Judith M. Kennedy, Professor, Department of English, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5G3. I have also taught at Goucher College (1957-8) and St. Thomas More College of the University of Sask. (1960-66). Degrees from Somerville College, Oxford (BA 1957, BLitt 1966). I have edited Yong's translation of Montemayor's Diana etc (Oxford 1968), Googe's Eclogues etc. (Toronto 1989), Ford's Honor Triumphant (in the Non-Dramatic Works of John Ford, ed. Stock, RETS), and contributed to the Spenser Encyclopedia. My SAA paper for New Mexico is "Images of Oberon from Blake to Bayreuth". My current major project (with R. Kennedy, S. May, and D. Rowan) is the New Variorum edition of MND. I teach mainly Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare. I'm interested in opera and art. =============================================================================== *Kennedy, Richard I am in the Oxfordian discussion group and have posted a bit, and John Mucci kindly send me the Polonius/Hamlet discussions of several months ago. I enjoyed and learned from both sides of the case, and I look forward to other such discussions, even though, so I gather, the Oxfordians are kept in another room, in a corner, so to speak, with dunce hats on. Nevermind that. I am glad to lurk about for any Shakespeare talk. Perhaps you will be happier to let me have access if you know I am a rather unorthodoxfordian. Some of the arguments I find to be weak. =============================================================================== *Keogh, John John Frederick Keogh Born in U.K. Educated at Downside School, Somerset. Emigrated to Australia 1953 B.A Dip. Ed. (Melbourne) Secondary Teacher all my working life. Now 59 years old. Have taught English Literature and Shakespeare every year to Year 12 for the past 29 years at: Melbourne Grammar School. Domain Rd. South Yarra. VICTORIA. Tel: 868 7100 Was Deputy Head of the English Dept. for many years. Housemaster for 20 years, Director of the School Play for 28 years. Currently teaching "King Lear" and "Hamlet" to Year 12 and Year 11 respectively =============================================================================== *Kern, Iver Name: Iver J. Kern Occupation: Attorney Firm Name: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Palo Alto, CA 94306 Educational Background: B.A. Yale College 1969 Ph.D. program in English, University of California, Berkeley--M.A. 1975 Area of specialization: 17th century poetry, especially Andrew Marvell J.D. Yale Law School 1984 Interests: Catching up with what is happening in Shakespeare criticism and literary criticism and theory in general after an approximately fifteen years' absence from the academic community. =============================================================================== *Kerr, Wendy I'm a student of Peter Paolucci's at York University. I'm in my third year of Honours English and (if all goes well) will graduate next spring. I'm writing in hopes of joining the Shakespeare discussion group. As an English major, I find this concept fascinating and am intrigued by the idea of eavesdropping, and perhaps one day interacting, on and with some of the world's leading Shakespeare scholars. I look forward to hearing a response and to being a part of such an exciting community. =============================================================================== *Kerwin, William I am completing my Ph.D in Renaissance literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am writing a dissertation on renaissance drama as a mediating site for a variety of medical conflicts in early modern England; the work is not so much a foray into medical theory as into social history. As such I am particularly interested in cultural studies approaches to working with Shakespeare, and in other readers with an interest in medicine. My work covers a variety of playwrights, including Samuel Daniel, John Webster, John Ford, Philip Massinger, Shakespeare, Lyly, Fletcher, Jonson and Heywood. =============================================================================== *Kessler, Karen I am interested in joining the mailing list. I have only be slow in returnin your request for a bio because I have been incredibly busy in the last month. =============================================================================== *Keunecke, Cristina My name is Cristina Keunecke, I am 26 years old and I am from Porto Alegre, a city in south of Brazil. I study Psychology at UFRGS, the public University of my State. At this moment, I am finishing my course (I am in the last semester) and I will graduate next March. My interest in this listserv is that I really love the work of William Shakespeare. By my own interests in Psychology, I discovered that Shakespeare had a great knowledge of the human conduts and motivations, even though he had written his plays more than 300 years before the birth of Psychology (1879) and the Psychoanalysis (1896). Like Sigmund Freud, who used several shakespearean plots as samples throughout his whole work, I have written my articles about Psychology quoting some shakespearean characters and their behavior. In addition, I have an individual project (not academic) involving Shakespeare: I am writing an article about the psychological aspects of some of his plays and characters. At this moment, I am working in the comedies "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "All's Well That Ends Well" and "Measure for Measure". My "leitmotiv" in this article is the confused relationship between men and women. In the future, I want to expand this work to the tragedies, specially "Hamlet" and "Othelo". My purpose in joining the Shaksper Listserv is to be in touch with people who study Shakespeare, or, at least, who have the same interest than me, to change ideas and opinions. I would be glad if I could find some papers about the plays that I cited above, mainly the comedies. =============================================================================== *Keunecke, Cristina Specifically for my career, I have no need of academic research in Shakespeare, but I enjoy to be part of this listserv just because the Shakespearean plays are my favorite literature. I also love to write some little notes and articles about the plays. At the University, I wrote some papers and monographs using some of the plays (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream,...) to explore their psychoanalytical possibilities.... Besides Shakespeare and Psychology I also have interest in Arts (painting, sculpture), Medieval and Renaissance istory, Classical Music and foreign languages - I also speak German and Italian (but not so easy as English). ============================================================= *Khalil, Amina My name is Amina Khalil. I am a Junior at the American University in Cairo in the Mass Communication department. I am interested in insights into human nature and discussions in a great number of topics. ============================================================= *Khan, Shifaat Yar My name is Shifaat Yar Khan and I am an Assistant Professor of English at Govt. College, Bosan Road, Multan, Pakistan. My keenest interest is in Shakespeare, Eliot, and the meaningful poets (Keats, Blake, Coleridge, and the Symbolists). I did my Masters from B.Z. University as an external candidate (that means that I did not take any lectures or attended any classes but rather appeared in the examination on my own. All that I know about literature is thus my own achievement and I cannot blame any one for the faults therein. I was not always a literature student and did my B.Sc. with major in biological sciences. I was given admission to B.B.A. and then M.B.A. in Temple University, Penn. But could not get a visa, as I could not convince the American Counsel that I was a genuine student. That's how I happened to appear in the M.A. examination in 1984 to show him how I was interested in studies. I topped the list of external candidates, which is no big deal seeing the standard of literacy in Pakistan. Then I genuinely became interested in literature-One of my uncles is a critic of some repute in Urdu literature and served as the Head of the Urdu department. the University Of the Punjab. In 1988 I completed a commentary on "King Lear" of some considerable length, but did not have the time or the courage to pursue its publication. Pakistan's literacy rate may be 25 or 35 per cent, its standard of education is hopeless as poverty and drive for subsistence paralyze all senses, 6th, 7th, and all. It is with this that we have to be contented with. My interest in Shakespeare and his moral philosophy led me to start work on another book on the notions of evil in his dramas. My reading of Shakespeare seemed to indicate that he had a certain philosophy of evil and that his villains were presented as a product of the world they inhabited rather than as devils incarnate. It seemed to me that they were just a magnification of the evil reflected in the tragic flaw of the hero. In 1996 I applied to get this registered for a Ph.D. The application is still under process due to what we have to be contented with. I am married and have two children, a son and a daughter. I live in a joint family set-up with my parents. ============================================================= *Kidnie, M. J. I'm one of those Canadians who travels around for a while and then has trouble making it back home again! I came over to England in 1990 to do a one-year Masters degree at the Shakespeare Institute, and enjoyed myself so much, I decided to stay to do my doctorate. I graduated in the summer of 1996 from the Institute, where I edited Philip Stubbes's *The Anatomie of Abuses* under the supervision of Stanley Wells. Since graduation, I have taken up a post at LSU where I teach Renaissance drama and critical theory. My research interests include editorial and textual theory, 16th century women's writing, and performance and film studies. I am currently revising my edition of the *Abuses* for publication with RETS and editing a collection of four Jonson plays for the World's Classics Series. I am also preparing an article on *Swetnam the Woman-hater*. On a personal note, I enjoy hiking and camping, and have recently taken up roller-blading. ============================================================= *Kiefer, Lauren Lauren Kiefer Assistant Professor, Dept. of English State University of New York College at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Cornell University, 1994 B.A. in English and Classics, Stanford University, 1985 My interest is primarily in medieval literature, especially late (14th century) Middle English literature. However, I am teaching a survey course which covers the Renaissance, and was hoping to lurk on this list to see what sort of useful ideas I could pick up and pass on. (I have no plans to trouble anyone on the list with questions of my own.) I would be glad to describe my work in medieval literature, if you think it is relevant. =============================================================================== *Kiernander, Adrian My name and various addresses are below. I am a senior lecturer in the Drama Section of the English Department. I am both a writer and director (and, in the past, actor). My Shakespeare productions include Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand, respectively and The Tempest in Brisbane. I have also directed the Nikolai opera of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. I have written fairly extensively about Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil, having worked with the company for a year in 1985, and a book on her work, which includes a study of her so-called Kabuki Shakespeare cycle is due out with Cambridge University Press early next year. I am also a member of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association and gave a paper at the conference earlier in the year entitled "Prospero's Island of the Dead: Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata as a source for The Tempest." This is due to be published shortly, but I'll see if the publishers mind it being lodged electronically with SKAKSPER. My major current research interest is a study of the career of a well-known Australian director and actor John Bell who currently heads his own Shakespeare Company. I worked with him as an assistant director on his production of Richard III earlier this year, and hope to start serious work on the book over the Christmas break. I am leaving for a six-month study leave shortly, and will be directing a production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Wellington Summer Shakespeare, which I founded 11 years ago, in New Zealand. =============================================================================== *Killeen, Tony Dr. A. A. Killeen, University of Minnesota, Dept. Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Box 198 UMHC, 420 Delaware St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455. Phone: (612) 626-4309 Fax: (612) 625-6994 I am a pathologist, not a Shakespeare expert, but I do love his plays and would like to join the list. =============================================================================== *Kim, Kyong Hahn Kyong Hahn Kim: I was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1962. My father was a military officer but I was educated in a very liberal manner. My mother was a devout Christian housewife and tried to take me to church every sunday, but as a matter of fact, I still don't belive in God. I remember They used to tell me that I like being and thinking alone. I graduated from Seoul National University, which is the best school in Korea. I majored in English education and English/American Literature. I was especially interested in American drama. My MA thesis on Eugene O'Neill's tragedies reflects such interest of mine. I am now working on, however, English Renaissance Literature. I am trying to write about Christian humanism researching five works of the English Renaissance for my dissertation. I like a historical, political criticism, but I think the theological aspect was a decisive factor in shaping Renaissance English culture. I think SHAKSPER is a good internet forum for a useful discussion for my interest. I am sure I will be an active participant in this group even when I come back to my country. =============================================================================== *Kim, Tai-Won As a dotoral student of English in University of Florida, I am interested in a variety of subjects that have to do with the early modern English culture. My main attention has always been given to Shakespeare, whose theatrical and imaginative works has encouraged me to challange the established ways of thinking about the texts and the world. With an emphasis on Shakespeare, however, the whole early modern literature is within the range of my scholarly interest. Currently I am at work on a study of Shakespearean dramaturgy in terms of his medieval inheritance. Based on the achievements of David Bevington and Bernard Beckerman in 60's, I would like to develop Robert Weimann's approach on popular tradition and Shakespeare(1967: trans. 1978). The two recent works of John Cox(1989) and Michael Mooney(1990) seem to show two different possible directions we can develop from Weimann's ideas. Besides their works, my recent reading list is including such scholars as Alan Dessen(1977), Jean Howard(1984), Kent Cartwright(1991), and Thomas Cartelli(1991). From the recent superb works of the Pattersons(Lee-1987; Annabel-1989), I leraned lots of things about how to read the pre-modern English culture even though in some trivial matters I could not agree on their opinions. I would also like to learn more from Joel Altman's pioneering study on the relationship between rhetoric and Renaissance drama. =============================================================================== *Kimber, Kay Hello, my name is Kay KIMBER. I am a secondary school teacher of English at Brisbane Girls' Grammar School, Queensland, Australia. I have about twenty-five years of teaching experience but have just been introduced to the wonders of electronic mail and the Internet. I have prepared a modest Shakespeare File on our School's Intranet with hot links to many of the key Shakespearean sites. I desperately need the richness of critiques and analyses to add to the file. I would also like the opportunity to encourage my students to pursue some electronic discussion on details from their study of "King Lear" in August. I love teaching English and media studies. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Graduate Diploma in Media (from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School) and a recently completed Master of Education in Teaching and Learning. Needless to say, I seem to have spent half my life studying part time while teaching full time. I would love to undertake a PhD (fulltime) in aspects of English teaching but my mortgage could not stand the strain. My approaches in class are based on constructivism in particular, so I am anxious to include the latest in technological tools for my students. This year, I have been lucky enough to be selected as the English teacher to trial a "Teaching and Learning with Computers" program based on the IBM model. There are five classrooms in different faculties set up in the following manner: four networked computers, a data display screen and projection unit which relays computer screen or video, permanently in the class room. With this impetus, the students and I have been experimenting with some different approaches to teaching and learning in their study of literature and media. We have loved the challenge but are the first to admit that there is so much more to learn. In summary, my immediate interest in joining this group is to focus on "King Lear" for Year 12 students. =============================================================================== *Kimmel, Richard Otherwise: My name is Richard Kimmel, I'm Artistic Director of Empty Gate, an international ensemble of actors. We've been working in Chicago, London, Boston, and are preparing to work in Atlanta this year. My avid interest in Shakespeare began as an undergraduate at Brandeis University (I graduated summa cum laude, with highest honors in Theatre Arts). I spent my junior year in London, studying Shakespeare intensively both as an actor and academically. We are planning a production of Macbeth sometime in the next eighteen months and so my interest in this list is practical as well as educational. I have had the good fortune to see quite a lot of productions both in London and here in the US and this perhaps may be of interest and use to the group. =============================================================================== *Kincaid, Rick I would like to request a subscription to SHAKSPER. I am an actor here in NY City. I would be especially interested on information on his life and times. =============================================================================== *Kind, Nicholas Nicholas Kind is currently Electronic Development Editor of The Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of the British publishers Thomas Nelson, which in its turn is part of The Thomson Corporation. Of particular interest to him are any applications of "new media" to education, notably the teaching and study of Shakespeare both as text and in performance. Nick took an undergraduate degree in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. His time at Cambridge was spent not only in the library but also on the stage - including an outdoor performance as Mercutio - and in the offices of the electronically-produced university newspaper. Following this, he was taken on to the Thomson Corporation graduate training scheme, and started work for Jane's Information Group, the defense, aerospace and geopolitical information publisher. A year-long spell in the marketing department led to promotion into electronic publishing; Nick was then responsible for a series of CD-ROMs and had substantial input into Jane's wider electronic publishing strategy, including the company's internet plans. In March 1997 Nick returned to his roots and real interests - electronic media, education, literature, the theatre and Shakespeare - by taking up his current position. ============================================================ My full name is Robert James Stubbs and I live with my wife Diane and our four sons in the North West of the United Kingdom between the sea port of Liverpool and the walled city of Chester, originally settled by the Romans. I took my Honours Degree in English Literature as a mature student with the Open University. I work full-time as a Cost Engineer and so my studies were carried out during evenings and at weekends and stretched over six years. I was pleased to be awarded a distinction for the Shakespeare element of my work, and also have a special interest in the Renaissance, Drama and Philosophy. Although not involved in academia, I am presently investigating the possibility of a part-time teaching post at a local college with the aim of sharing my love of literature with 6th form or mature students. During my time with the Open University I met Diane, took on her then two small boys and my own older boys following the death of their mother, married and went through all the trials and tribulations of building and integrating our family. I have emerged sane, I think. Last year Diane and I spent a memorable week in Tuscany, Italy and visited the Renaissance treasure-house of Florence. ============================================================= *Kinder, Jackie My name is Jackie Kinder. I'm a reference librarian at the University of the South and I am interested in joining the Shakesper List. I have an MLS from Indiana University and some theatre coursework and lots of practical theatre experience. =============================================================================== *King, Devorah My name is Deborah Ann King. I am 36, hold a bachelor's degree in pshychology and live in Indianapolis, Indiana. I have no academic credits and am uncertain how much I could add to your list, but I have always loved Shakespeare. I first read the plays in the summer between sixth and seventh grade. Believe it or not an issue of "The Teen Titans" comic book was what got me started. The plot of the issue in question drew heavily on "Romeo and Juliet" via reincarnations. That made me curious enough to hop on my bicycle and head over to the local library. And thus began a life long love affair with the Bard. I have been fortunate enough to attend the Strattford Festival and never miss a local performance (although they are, unfortunately, rare). =============================================================================== *King, John Paul John Paul King is an actor who resides with his wife Suzy in Mesa, Arizona. He has had a love affair with the language, the drama and the powerful human truths of Shakespeare since seeing the Olivier film of Hamlet at 13. The pull he felt towards this material was instrumental in his decision to become an actor. As a resident company performer with Mesa's Southwest Shakespeare Company, he has worked his way up through the ranks of the Bard's characters: Biondello (Taming of the Shrew), Bloody Sergeant and Second Murderer (Macbeth), Antonio (The Tempest), Justice Shallow (Merry Wives of Windsor- and what a lot of makeup!), Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet- he has also played Mercutio, in another production), Autolycus (The Winter's Tale), Cassius (Julius Caesar), Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and the title character in Henry V. He recently won a 1996 AriZoni (the local theatrical award) for his performance as Puck, and in 1995 took one home as a director for Comedy of Errors. He has numerous non-Shakespearean credits, including Sterling in Jeffrey, Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Azdak and the Singer in Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire and even Harold Hill in The Music Man. With his wife Suzy and some actor friends, he co-founded the Platypus Theatre Troupe, where he has directed and/or appeared in a number or plays by Joe Orton (The Ruffian on the Stair, The Good and Faithful Servant an d The Erpingham Camp) as well as Christopher Durang's 'Dentity Crisis. Other credits include productions of The Grapes of Wrath, Hair, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Imaginary Invalid, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and The Importance of Being Earnest (he played Lady Bracknell!); but his primary love and interest remains with Shakespeare, and he is in constant pursuit of more knowledge and experience within the magic realm of his body of work. =============================================================================== *King, Mary-Anne I've been in love with Shakespeare for 30 years. I am not a scholar, nor do I wish to be-but an appreciator of his words, his art. I never took, Shakespeare in college-I didn't go to college-but, I did read and I did talk to people who did take him in school and even some who taught. When I first heard about your list, I was very happy. Ever since I got on the internet I've been looking for you-and couldn't find anything close. But, I'm told you want either academics or English students and technically I'm neither. I love English literature-from the Everyman to AA Milne, I love Shakespeare's plays. And I would love to hear what other people think about them. Other insights. I am an ongoing student and I never want to stop. I got married out of high school, read everything - averaging 5 or more books a week- everything from the Pearl Poet to Voltaire to Mickey Spillaine. I have a passion for English History - preferable the 15th & 16th Centuries. I am self-taught and still learning. After I got divorced, I took jobs till my daughter was older, then went on a certificate program to become a graphic designer- I am an artist-but as you can imagine it's not lucrative. ============================================================= *King, Patricia Ann I have been a secondary English teacher for about 33 years and am not really computer literate but am working at it. I am fascinated with the opportunities that are there for truly educational pursuits. I really want to open this door of opportunity to a class that I teach at South Carroll High School. This class is entitled Advanced Literature and Composition. It is a prepartory class for the students wishing to take the Advanced Placement English test in May for college credit. As a part of this course we do a close critical study of _Hamlet_ using the Norton edition plus the rather large collection of reference materials in our media center here at South Carroll. We also have access to Western Maryland College's library and are connected to the Infotrac program. I would like my classes to have the opportunity to join the 21st century accessing the Interent by seeking information, asking questions, and just "throwing out" ideas that they have either for comment or criticism. This would be a valuable source for them and for me as they are writing and researching topics related to Shakespeare and specifically _Hamlet_. I want to connect my computer to the Internet this summer; and if I do, I plan to take full advantage of your service. I can't wait to be a part of this fantastic group! =============================================================================== *King, Rosalind I am a lecturer in the department of English and drama at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. I serve on the academic and education board of SHakespeare's Globe (ISGC) and on the board of the English Shakespeare Company. I also work as a dramaturg. I am completing an edition for Manchester University Press of the Collected Works of Richard Edwards including the play 'Damon and Pythias' for which I was the dramaturg last summer for the performance at the Globe. This edition will also include Edwards poems, an account of his lost play 'Palamon and Arcyte' and the extant contemporary musical settings of his poems which are presumably his own. I am also completing a book on Shakespeare textual variants and the implications for performance. ============================================================= *Kirby, Naomi My name is Naomi S. Kirby. I am a high school teacher of English and Latin in Melbourne, Australia, at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. I was formerly an English and journalism teacher at Ben Franklin High School in New Orleans, until I received a NEH grant to study Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon with Miriam Gilbert in 1989. On my flight there I met an Australian who gradually wormed his way into my heart and soul and created in me the desire to immigrate to Australia to be his bride. The six-week seminar changed my life in more than one way. From a casual interest in and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays, I developed what seems to have become a lifelong passion for his work. During those six weeks we studied Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet in terms of teaching them to students as plays awaiting production, not text awaiting dissection. Following the seminar I went back to school aflame and started a one-year Shakespeare course in which we studied 8 - 10 plays through both texts and performance. The second year of the course I took two students over to England to see RSC productions for the first two weeks of the summer. The following year, having moved to Australia to be married, I no longer taught the Shakespeare course, but upon my return to New Orleans took students to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival shortly before moving to Australia for good. Now I teach primarily Latin with only one English class, although I prepare some of the work and materials for other teachers on Shakespeare. Self indulgently, on the recent Latin trip to England and Italy, I included a stopover in Stratford for a Macbeth break. (I enjoyed it - the kids are keeping quiet.) I have this half-baked dream of writing a book someday on fathers and daughters in Shakespeare, but I'm not really terrible scholarly, so I doubt it will ever come to fruition. Primarily I love Shakepeare's plays: his themes, his language, his view of the world. I look forward to an arena in which I may learn more and expand my enjoyment and knowledge. =============================================================================== *Kischner, Michael Michael Kischner: I am an instructor of English at North Seattle Community College. I teach Shakespeare to freshmen and sophomores about once every two years; at other times, I am teaching British LIterature surveys, the Bible as Literature, and many history-of-ideas courses in interdisciplinary settings. Ten years ago, I collaborated with Charles Frey on a successful grant proposal called "Writing About Shakespeare" which resulted in our putting on a workshop for Seattle high school teachers. For that workshop, I helped ccreate teacing materials. I also delivered a paper called "Shakespeare as a Basic Skill" to the Washington Community Colleges Humanities Association in April, 1985; in this paper I argued for using Shakespeare with developmentalk/remedial students in community colleges. Another conference presentation, with Edith Wollin, was called "Working Closely with an Asp," and was about teaching Shakespeare -- specially Antony and Cleopatra -- collaboratively with a female colleague. =============================================================================== Pierce, Tom I am a community college instructor. I teach philosophy and a three quarter survey of Western humanities from ancient Greece to the modern world. In one of those courses I am able to do at least one Shakespearean play, usually Othello or Hamlet. Occasionally I squeeze in a comedy, but when I do two plays other things must be sacrificed. I'm embarrassed to say I am the only instructor doing Shakespeare (and Chaucer and many other things). No one on the English faculty is interested. My graduate school training was in philosophy, but I majored in English as an undergraduate. My formal study of Shakespeare was as an undergraduate. I also have a keen interest in the performance of Shakespeare and have seen many productions around the U.S. and in England. I've led tours of students to the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. I am always looking for new ways to present Shakespeare to students. Thus, my interest in this list is mainly pedogogical. I do, however, have a personal interest in Shakespearan research and in Elizabethan history. =============================================================================== *Kjos, David J. I am a Media Specialist and Theatre Teacher in the Minot Public School System. I have a degree in Speech and Theatre from Minot State University and two years of graduate study at the University of North Dakota. I have founded a Summer theatre e program for High School Students and work with the Western Plains Opera Company ; most recently co-directing a production of Gilbert and Sullivans "Patience". I am involved in theatre year around and have a particular interest in Shakespeare e. I am currently directing a production of Twelfth Night. My primary interests are in the production of Shakespeares plays and training young actors. =============================================================================== *Klappholz, David I'm a professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. I'm working on a biography of A. Edward Newton who was a friend of both Horace Howard Furness Sr. and Horace Howard Furness Jr. (and of Felix Schelling). My interest in SHAKSPER is an interest in determining more about the lives of these scholars and the assessment by today's world of scholarship of the durability, if any, of their contribution. ============================================================= *Klautsch, Richard I am currently the head of the Acting and Directing areas within the Department of Theatre Arts at Boise State University. Prior to this appointment, I taught acting and directing classes at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I was hired by and worked closely with John Russell Brown for several years. My PhD and MFA degrees are from Wayne State University, Detroit. I am currently a principal AEA actor with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, a growing company attracting professional directors and actors from around the country. As a graduate student at Wayne State I developed a deep love for Shakespeare and the classic drama, as well as the study of the history of Elizabethan theatre (we had the fortune of having C. Walter Hodges on faculty for a full term). My interest in Shakespeare's drama, and in those theatres and individuals has continued to grow. As an instructor of theatre, I believe Shakespeare continues to offer us a multitude of creative challenges and problems, and I hope to become acquainted with a larger number of artists and scholars through this group. =============================================================================== *Klein, Bernard I am currently (1996) completing a PhD on literature and cartography in early modern England and Ireland, a topic on which I have published a number of articles ver the past two years. My M.A. thesis (completed in 1993) dealt with representations of Ireland and the Irish in the sixteenth century. I've joined the Frankfurt English Dept as a member of staff in Oct 1993, my current contract runs until the end of 1998. =============================================================================== *Klein, Holger "On completing my university studies under Wolfgang Clemen in Munich, I began my professional career 1966 at the English Department of Cologne University, then went to teach English and Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England (1970-1990), then took a chair in English at the University of Poitiers (1990-1991), finally moved to the chair of English Literature at Salzburg University in 1991. My publications include a critical edition and translation into German prose of Hamlet (2 vols, Stuttgart: Reclam, 1984), and one of Much Ado About Nothing (1 vol, Stuttgart: Reclam, 1993, which has also been published as a monolingual edn (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992). I have modern interests as well, particularly with regard to war literature and to J.B. Priestley, but have continually concentrated on the sixteenth and seventeenth centureis, starting with my doctoral thesis on the feminine portrait in English Renaissance verse (1970), contributing articles on Shakespeare to various journals, editing Whetstones's Heptameron (1582) and the anonymous Westward for Smelts (1620, etc. In 1993 I agreed to take over the Shakespeare Yearbook published by The Mellen Press, and it is this which makes me particularly interested in the network, of course."=20 =============================================================================== *Klein, Penelope Jane PENELOPE J.M. KLEIN I am planning to obtain a doctorate in theology following completi on of the M.L.S., and am particularly interested in working in special collection s. However, I am also interested in working in academic or research libraries. I have a great deal of theatre experience, including performance, and have worked as a dramaturg for two theatres in the Twin Cities area. I was also the theatre critic for the school newspaper and wrote a weekly review for it. I was part of the "Project Shakespeare" planning committee - we successfully pla nned a day-long Shakespeare reading marathon as a community-building event. We a lso planned other events: I was responsible for planning an "Acting Shakespeare" workshop which was fairly well-attended. =============================================================================== *Klene, Jean I am interested in SHAKSPER for scholarly purposes and because I teach one introductory undergraduate course in Shakespearean drama for majors and another for non-majors. =============================================================================== *Kliest, Vicki My full name is Vicki Lyn Marie Kleist. I am a theatre major at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota. I have studied Shakespeare a little in performance workshops, and am presently taking a Shakespearean course here at St. Mary's. I am extremely interested in joining this conference, because I think it would not only be very informative and helpful, but also very interesting. Shakespeare is a subject which intrigues and delights me, and which I wish to learn as much as I can about. My surface mail address is: Vicki Kleist Box 513 St. Mary's College 700 Terrace Heights Winona, MN 55987 My school telephone number is (507) 457-7307, and my home number is (507) 864-2583. =============================================================================== *Kliman, Bernice My full name is Bernice W. Kliman. I can be reached most easily at my home address, 70 Glen Cove Drive, Glen Head, NY 11545. I am a Professor of English at Nassau Community College on Long Island. My most recent publication arrived in the mail today! Macbeth for the Manchester UP series on Shakespeare in Performance. I am the coordinator of a group working on the NV Hamlet. Nick Clary told me about you, and he is a member of our team. You may remember me as the co-editor of the Shakespeare on Film Newsletter (SFNL), which has now merged with the Shakespeare Bulletin. My main interest now is 18thc editing practices and personalities. I intend to be at SAA this spring and will hope to make personal contact there with all the people I will get to know through e-mail, if I ever master this thing. =============================================================================== *Klingspon, Ronald Pa After studies at Queen's, Carleton. and the University of Toronto (A.B.D.1977), and a decade teaching secondary school, I assumed my present position at a small, new, public, liberal arts college about 350km. north of Toronto. At Nipissing, I teach courses in Shakespeare, 18th-century literature, the Bible and English literature, etc. to English majors and Honours students, many of whom plan to enroll in our Faculty of Education after graduation. Understandably, I have a keen interest in all aspects of Shakespearian pedagogy-not just the "tricks of the trade", but the larger challenge of heightening and illuminating student pleasure in reading, watching and playing Shakespeare by introducing them, tactfully, to the discourses of the rapidly changing field of Shakespearian scholarship and criticism. The cultural impact of the Reformation, the developing canon of writings by Early Modern women, and the ludic approach to literature are among the other of my central interests. I have been a member of the SAA since the late 70's and have attended as participant or observer most of the annual conferences in the last twenty years. ============================================================= *Klitgaard, Anders I have come to English literature, and to Shakespeare, via philosophy. This means that I have what may look like a somewhat 'philosophical approach' to English literature (and to literature in general). This, at least, is how it seems from the perspective of literature, because, on the other hand, I am often reproached by philosophers for having a rather 'literary approach' to philosophy. I was happy when I discovered that I was not the only one trapped in this dilemma - in terms of interests, I feel I have a kindred spirit in Walter Kaufmann the late Princeton philosopher. I very much depart from Kaufmann, however, when it comes to the actual readings of the texts. But I shall not be too wide of the mark, I don't think, if I determine my interests, in the spirit of Kaufmann, as being centred around Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Shakespeare. That Shakespeare belongs in a group with Kierkegaard and Nietzsche is, in a sense, quite obvious - for what is Shakespeare if not the true father of Existentialism? For me, however, it has taken many years to arrive at this understanding. From my point of departure in philosophy and in Kierkegaard to my destination in literature and in Shakespeare, I've had to fight many battles against restrictive (mis)conceptions of philosophy. Recently, I have become very engaged in, and very liberated by, the study of the magnificent Harold Bloom. My view of Shakespeare has actually changed as a result of this. Under the Bloomian 'influence' (I suppose), I am now working on a longer study on the subject of Shakespeare's significance for subsequent Continental philosophy. Currently, I am looking for jobs world wide. I'm based in Denmark but would enjoy working abroad. If you find my profile of interest, professionally or otherwise, then please don't hesitate to e-mail me. ============================================================= *Kluznik, Elizabeth A. My full name is Elizabeth A. Kluznik. I'm in my senior year as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. I'm writing a term paper on the reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe in London. I'm interested in information about the architects and theater historians who were involved in the project and I'm also looking for more information on Sam Wanamaker, the reconstructed Globe's driving force. My paper will discuss Wanamaker's struggle to rebuild the Globe and the debates between scholars and how they finally came to agree upon what the Globe's diameter was, how many sides it had, etc. ============================================================= *Knauer, David J. 833 Ridge Dr., #511/DeKalb, IL 60115 Dept. of English/Northern Illinois I am currently a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant in the Dept. of English at NIU. I am also an editorial associate for Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography (AEB) and the assistant executive editor for Style, two journals published by NIU. I received a B.A. and M.A. in English from The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. My main research emphases are English Renaissance drama, 20th-century American novel and contemporary literary criticism. Presently, I am working on an article that applies three different critical ideologies--New Historicism, Lacanian/Feminism, and Deconstruction--to the Flannery O'Connor story "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" as a demonstration of the defining techniques of each. My Ph.D. dissertation (in progress) is an analysis of how the shift from public to private theatre- going in early 17th-century England may have affected dramatic texts performed in both places. I am particularly interested in play texts that exist in two or more substantially different forms and for which there is evidence of both public and private performance. ======================================================================== *Kneidel, Gregory I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. Currently, I am directing my research (and probably my dissertation) towards an examination of the connection between humanist rhetoric and reformation ideology--specifically on the link between sophistic methods of argumentation and Protestant paradigms for individual salavation in Elizabethan poetry and drama--in Tudor and Stuart England. =============================================================================== *Knight, Dudley DUDLEY KNIGHT Associate Professor, Head of Acting Division Department of Drama, University of California--Irvine Irvine California 92717 Degrees: B.A. Haverford College (English), M.F.A. Yale School of Drama (Acting). A founding member of Long Wharf Theatre. Regional theatre work also includes major acting roles at American Conservatory Theatre, Magic Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe Theatre, Padua Hills Playwrights' Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, LA Theatre Center,six seasons as Guest Artist at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, two seasons at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival (where I currently am playing Mamaev in "Diary of A Scoundrel;" through September 4). Numerous film and TV roles, radio dramas, commercials, voiceovers, etc., and I have directed over 40 stage or radio drama productions. Voice Production study with Kristin Linklater and Catherine Fitzmaurice. I have taught voice for actors, speech, dialects, classical text, acting and directing at The American Conservatory Theatre, California Institute of the Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, UCLA, and have voice/speech/dialect coached at American Conservatory Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Los Angeles Theatre Center, among others. I currently am a member of the Artistic Staff at South Coast Repertory as resident voice/dialect coach. =============================================================================== *Knight, John Name John Knight DOB 23 jul 53 Home Sydney Australia Job Consultant Physician - Paediatric Nephrology Quals BA MB BS FRACP Educ Bread and Butter six years medical school four years paediatrics four years nephrology Krug and Caviar three years arts degree (major in Shakespeare and modern poetry) currently enrolled in MA programme at Sydney University - Shakespeare and post-modern prose Have beem a fan of WS since primary school days; read him for pleasure, study him for pleasure, am currently writing a treatise on the early plays for the masters programme esp Henry VI parts 1 2 and 3 and King John. Probably more aligned to the New Historicism than any other current school of thought but am attracted to Hawkes _Meaning by Shakespeare_ and other politicised deconstructions, if only I could manage to wipe the slightly incredulous grin off of my face. Have no papers to contribute at the present time (assuming you won't accept stuff on the molecular biology of autoimmune renal disease) but promise to upload my term essay holus bolus if you're that keen to have it. =============================================================================== *Knoll, David My name is David Knoll. I was born in Tel-Aviv on December 27, 1976. I was a pupil in Yod Daled High School since 1992 and graduated two weeks ago. I was aleays interested in literature and especially in Shakespeare and other Elizabethan playwrights. I took several courses in Everyman`s University including one titled as "The Shakespearean Vision". I am now a soldier in the IDF. =============================================================================== *Knowles, Denis I have been teaching at an independent girls' school in Boston, MA (The Winsor School) for the past twenty-three years. At this very academic school, I teach the Shakespeare course every three or so years (there are three of us who rotate it). My course consists of *The Sonnets*, *Twelfth Night* (one of my colleagues prefers to teach *As You Like It*), *Henry IV, part one*, *Othello* (this year instead of *Twelfth Night*), *Hamlet*, and *King Lear*. In addition the students read E.M.W. Tillyard's *The Elizabethan World Picture*. For 10th-12th graders providing this philosophical/intellectual context is crucial. I did my doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in the area of Irish and Black drama--a parallel study. I taught as a TA for three+ years during this period: Romantic Literature, Shaw and the Anglo-Irish Drama, and Anglo-Irish Literature, the English Lit. survey course, and, of course, Freshman Composition. Subsequently, I taught at Dartmouth college and Boston University but did not complete writing my thesis. Its topic was too broad, demanding statistical analytic skills that I did not have. In addition, I discovered that I loved teaching, far more than being a scholar. I have never regretted this decision to be a "generalist", perhaps because I became the Head of the English Department at Winsor immediately after making it and have enjoyed every moment of my twenty-three years there as teacher and department head. At Winsor, a 5th-12th grade college preparatory school, I have taught many electives including Early English Literature, Nineteenth-Century English Lit, Twentieth-Century English Lit., Nineteenth-Century Russian Lit., Southern Lit. (20c American), Justice and Law in Literature, Women Writers, Lives of the Authors: Woolf, Dickinson, Fitzgerald and Keats, Many Voices: Literature of Africa, Latin America, India & Japan, Children in Literature, Creative Writing, Expository Writing (our only required course), etc. Of all of these electives the one on Shakespeare's work lies closest to my heart. it is for this reason that I welcome the opportunity to be part of this group. =============================================================================== *Ko, Yu Jin Yu Jin Ko SUNY New Paltz 995 Route 299 #1 Department of English Gardiner, NY 12525 New Paltz, NY 12561 (914) 256-0816 (914) 257-2753 EDUCATION: 1987 - 1993 Yale University Ph.D. (December 1993), English Literature 1983 - 1985 Clare College, Cambridge University Honours B.A. (M.A.), English Literature 1979 - 1983 Columbia College, Columbia University B.A., English Literature Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa CURRENT AREA OF INTEREST: Forms of struggle in the Renaissance against inherited conceptions of selfhood. TEACHING POSITION: SUNY New Paltz: 9/93 - present Assistant Professor PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS: "Shakespeare's Rosalind: The Charactor of Contingency," GENDER AND HUMOR, Shannon Hengen, ed. (Gordon and Breach), forthcoming. "Surrey and Translation," to be delivered at the XIXth International Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Villanova University, October 7-9, 1994. "Civilization and Its Disconnections: Actor, Character, and Caliban," delivered at The Ninth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, March 10-12, 1994. "A Select Bibliography for Sardanapalus," Studies in Romanticism, Fall 1992. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Coordinator for "Shakespeare in Performance" Symposium to be held at SUNY New Paltz in Spring 1995. Member: MLA, Shakespeare Association of America, Medieval- Renaissance Drama Society, The Medieval-Renaissance Roundtable at SUNY New Paltz =============================================================================== *Kobayashi, Masao Born and brought up in Tochigi Prefecture, sixty miles north of Tokyo, I went up to enter Tokyo University of Education. When I was a junior of the English Department, I acted as Hamlet on the occasion of the university festival. A number of teachers on and out of the staff helped us put up the play. Among them was Prof. Kuniyoshi Munakata who was later to be known for his performances of Shakespeare in the traditional Noh style. Actually Prof. Munakata had played the role of Hamlet as a university student. He often called me Hamlet II. Prof. Shigehiko Toyama, who was then reading 'Hamlet' for us, encouraged us and very shortly afterwards became well-known in Japan for his textual studies of Shakespeare and reader-oriented criticism. For me it was one and only experience of standing on the stage. And yet it decided my future course and quite naturally led me into the world of Shakespeare. From the late 1970's on, under the influence of President Prof. Yasumasa Okamoto at Tokyo Gakugei Univ.-formerly teaching at our university and having acted as Marcellus in 'Munakata Hamlet I'-I was engaged in audience response criticism. For several years I had also joined Prof. Okamoto's research group which aimed at the computer-assisted comprehensive study of 'Elizabethan Stage Directions.' I can properly say that always at the centre of my interest has been 'stage,' 'performance' and 'theory of drama.' I am now interested in the concept of 'metamorphosis' in its relationship to the principle of drama in general. Ovid and Shakespeare is surely in my scope, though it's not especially new. I've recently translated Rene Girard's "A Theatre of Envy"(OUP, 1991) with my colleague into Japanese, which will be published very soon. ============================================================= *Koch, G. C. The Verify Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to solving literary mysteries. Founded in 1996, its principal source of income is through the tax-deductible contributions of individuals. By providing funds for the creation of educational materials, public information services and organizational assistance, the Fund encourages the understanding and direct involvement of individuals and institutions as to the social and cultural rewards of discovering great works of literature. The current on-line project titled Buffalo Free-Net Literary Detectives, welcomes any evidence, clues and theories with respect to the existence of Shakespeare's manuscripts. ============================================================= *Kodmur, Daniel Daniel Kodmur Ph.D Student Department of History UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 USA e-mail: dkodmur@ocf.berkeley.edu I am writing a dissertation in American cultural history from 1870 to 1920. Though my work per se has little to do with theater, acting and Shakespeare have always been passions of mine, ever since I played Puck in elementary school....... I am currently preparing to teach a senior-level undergraduate research seminar on the cultural history of the performing arts in America. I certainly hope that at least one of my students next term will choose to focus on a Shakespearean theme. Favorite Plays: Henry IV Part 1, Henry V, Midsummer Night's Dream Favorite Productions I Wish I'd Seen: ANYTHING with Olivier, the WPA Federal Theatre Project's "voodoo Macbeth" Favorite Topics: Filmed adaptations Musical adaptations Operatic adaptations History of Shakespeare performance/reception in US =============================================================================== *Koellerer, Christian I would like to join SHAKSPER. My name is Christian Koellerer. I am graduate student (Master of Philosophy) at Salzburg University (Austria). My research subjects are mainly the theory/history of literary criticism and "philosophy and literature". ============================================================= *Koger, Malia L I am a graduating Master's student at Michigan State University with a genuine interest in Shakespeare. My course of study has included a PhD level course in the textual analysis of Shakespeare and the study of Shakespearean genre. I have not, as yet, published any articles, however am very interested in the role that the study of Shakespeare plays in the education of the youth of today. I am seeking to write my thesis on a textual analysis of Shakespeare for Children, specifically "The Tempest" and a play titled "Prospero's Magic Cape." I would like to determine the relevence of Shakespeare to the youth of today beginning with the basic comparison of the two texts with the possible expansion to include the aforementioned relevence in today's Elementary through Secondary classroom. Additionally, I have always had an interest in Shakespeare and found this renewed after my recent visitation to England, Stratford and the like. I am a Theatre student and am constantly interested in the production aspect of the classics as well as contemporary interpretations and their basis. =============================================================================== *Kohn, Michael Steven My name is Michael Steven Kohn. In 1988, I graduated from York University with a a B.A. in Creative Writing. Currently, I am an M.A. student in English at Dalhousie. My past papers on Shakespeare include a study of the game of bowls as a plot metaphor for the circuitous route that Hamlet takes in avenging his father's murder, and an examination of Prince Hal's oppression of polyphony as symboli symbolized in his banishment of Falstaff (who describes his own belly as a 'womb of tongues spawning wombs'). My current interests involve the politics of quotation of texts from Shakespeare's canon. I am particularly intrigued by the use of Shakespeare in other genres and media--specifically in 'Star Trek', "The Next Generation' and various 'Star Trek' movies. While Shakespeare is frequently quoted in the 'Star Trek' canon as the representative of of humanism, the con- texts of some quotations often draw attention to the act of quotation itself. For example, in the first eposode of 'The Next Generation', Jean-Luc Picard, the Captain of the Enterprise, squares off against his demi-godlike nemesis 'Q' in a heated exchange of lines taken from 'Hamlet', setting his own quotes (Shakespeare as defender of the noble human spirit) against Q's misquotes (Shakespeare as critic of human flaws). My intention is not to critique representations of Shakespeare as either right or wrong (all quotations are, to some degree, out of one context and into another) but to interpret how they are used to establish their quoters as authorities and to establish what goals or agenda the quoters are trying to forward with their use. I will also be exploring Star Trek's use of Shakespeare in terms of how quotation lends greater authority to, and in effect can aid in the canonization of the 'quoting text' while further canonizing the 'quoted text.' =============================================================================== *Kois, Daniel I am a junior Dramatic Art / Communications Studies major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Though I don't have any scholarly articles to my credit, being a pathetic loser undergrad, I do have an active interest in Shakespeare's works from both dramatic and literary standpoints. Aside from being a student (which takes up a surprising amount of time) I am a playwright, author, actor, and director. I have directed three plays (including two of my own) and five short films; I have acted in roughly twenty plays and ten short films; I am a student in the honors creative writing program at UNC and recently won the Carolina Quarterly Short Fiction Award. Currently I am acting in Adam LeFevre's "Grant at Windsor," preparing to direct a one-act I wrote called "Morass," and raising funding for the filming of my 40 minute screenplay "Debris." My interest in Shakespeare and his works is profound; to me, he is the greatest playwright imaginable and the apex of the artistic in the West. Plus, he was a snappy dresser. I would very much like to join SHAKESPER to keep up with scholarly studies of the subject. =============================================================================== *Kolar, Melissa F. My name is Melissa F. Kolar, and I am the chairperson of the English dept. at Westmont Hilltop High School in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Our school recently became involved in working with the "information superhighway," and I saw your listserv listing. I may not be the type of person you expected to subscribe to your group, but I have for many years taught Advanced Placement, gifted, and honors classes of English lit. Of course, Shakespeare is a major portion of my course of study. Therefore, I wondered if I could share information that I learned from your group with my students. =============================================================================== *Kolman, Al Department of Computer Science Saint Mary's College Winona, MN USA Hi, I'd like to be a member of the Shakespeare discussion list. I can't really say that I'm an English major; in fact, I'm a super-senior (that's what they call fifth-year seniors around here) in Computer Science and Mathematics here at Saint Mary's College in scenic Winona, MN. Bill and I go way back - I dug him when I was introduced to him in high school, and when I took it again (in college this time) a year and a half later, I got into a nasty argument over Merchant with the teacher. Heh.. Aside from that, we usually do one of his plays about once every other year, where I usually do tech stuff, but got to play Young Cato in Julius Caesar last spring (oh, wow, Hollywood here I come...). My interest in Bill now revolves mainly around theatre, although I have written a paper comparing The Tempest to Moliere's Le Misanthrope, but I'm a scientist, so I don't have that many opportunities to write scholarly papers about literature. Oh well. ======================================================================= *Komara, Kirsten My name is Kirsten Komara and I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio). I am presently working on a dissertation in Renaissance drama. In my dissertation, I am examining dramatic trial as ritual, most specifically when kings/husbands and high church officials try women. I investigate the representation of cultural discourses and habitus for and about women in the dramatic trial, and their affect on behavior and on the various levels of audience response. As a CWRU graduate student, I have received special grants to present papers at the Midwest Modern Language Conference, the Shakespeare Association of America, the National Graduate Student Conference and the Northeast Ohio Conference on Composition. I have also received special grants for weekend seminars/conferences at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the University of Pennsylvania and the Medieval Congress. I am a member of the Modern Language Association, the Midwest Modern Language Association, the Shakespeare Assocation of America, the Medieval Renaissance Drama Society and the Society for Critical Exchange. Also, as a CWRU graduate student, I have designed and taught introductory and advanced composition classes to both native and non-native speakers of English. I am the editor of the 'Guilford Gallery', an annual publication of "the best of English Composition." Recently, I was appointed as the Assistant Director of the Composition Program, beginning the 1994 academic year. My dominant areas of interest are the English Renaissance, English Nineteenth Century, feminist theory, cultural theory and composition theory. I received my B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame Indiana, and my M.A. from Case Western Reserve University. My surface mailing address is Kirsten Komara, 1939 Coltman Rd. #1, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. My office phone number is #216-368-2340, and my home phone number is #216-231-6911. =============================================================================== *Koory, Mary Ann Mary Ann Koory received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in December. The title of her dissertation is "'I Am Not The Man I Once Was:' Conversion and Martyrdom in the Lyrics of Francesco Petrarch, Sir Philip Sidney and John Donne." The dissertation committee was chaired by Paul Alpers, and included Donald Friedman and Timothy Hampton. Her most recent paper, "'England's Second Austine:' John Donne's Resistance to Conversion," was delivered at the Northern California Renaissance Conference at Mills College in April. She looks forward to presenting a paper on the re-creation of Sherlock Holmes in contemporary women's murder mysteries at the upcoming MLA. Most of Koory's research in Shakespeare has been to consider the implications of generically lyric moments in the plays (e.g., the transfer of the crown from Richard to Bolingbroke in Richard II, the wooing of Anne by Richard in Richard III and the meeting of Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet) and the interaction of perspectival language in the Sonnets and Richard III. In addtion to her own research, Koory has taught several college level classes that have included Shakespeare plays. Recently, her interest in Shakespeare has become both pedagogical and technological. She has agreed to develop a class in Shakespeare to be presented on-line for the University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning. Koory is hoping that SHAKSPER will help further both of these latter interests. =============================================================================== *Korda, Natasha NATASHA KORDA is assistant professor of English Renaissance Literature at Wesleyan University. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University in 1995. She is currently working on a book entitled, "Household Stuff: Shakespeare's Domestic Economies," the first chapter of which appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of Shakespeare Quarterly. She is also editing an anthology together with Jonathan Gil Harris of Ithaca College, entitled, "Staged Properties: Props and Property in Early Modern English Drama." =============================================================================== *Kordus, Jennifer My name if Jennifer (Jenna) Kordus. I am studying for my Master's degree in English literature at Kent State University. I am in my second year and hope to graduate by August of 1997. I am currently researching the eighteenth century and am writing my thesis on Alexander Pope's _The Rape of the Lock_. Other authors that interest me are: Homer, Aeschylus, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Horace, Longinus, Shakespeare, and Robert Frost. Over and above the fact that I am interested in Shakespeare, I wish to be a part of the Shaksper Electronic Conference because I am currently taking a Shakespearean class which focuses specifically on _King Lear_. Also, all of the students in this seminar have been asked by our professor to subscribe to this group. There is such a wealth of information on Shakespeare that being a part of this conference seems very worthwhile. I graduated in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin--Oshkosh. I took two and a half years off, wrote a draft for a novel, and entered the Master's program here at KSU in the fall of 1995. I served as the assistant editor to _Prose Studies_ last year and taught one semester of English Composition 10002. I am currently teaching two sections of English Composition 10001 and will teach two sections of 10002 in the spring. After I attain my Master's degree, I hope to study at the University of Wisconsin--Madison for my Phd and become a college-level teacher. =============================================================================== *Kosinsky, Gary My name is Gary Kosinsky. I have no special credentials in English Literature, or in Shakespearean studies. I have, however, a layman's interest in Shakespeare, having read the plays and most of the poetry, and would enjoy increasing my knowledge of Shakespeare via the postings in the SHAKSPER mailing list. =================================================== ng with issues of marvel and women's death. I am hoping, as well, to integrate some of my previous exploration, concerning the way in which Shakespeare handles the death of his women in the tragedies as well. (I wrote a term paper for a class with Professor Harold Bloom last semester, which investigated these questions.) In the process of turning from girl to woman, there have been two life forces which have cemented themselves in my growth, proving undiminshable sources of delight and inspiration - the theater and Shakespeare. I am an actor - through my acting, I am an artist and a humanist. I began acting when I was six years old, skinny and bubbly - upon the counsel of a dance teacher who urged my mother to "do something constructive with all this ham energy". In the theatrically very rich soil of Yale, I have come to be wedded to the theater in a magical and permanent way. I ebb and I flow with that passion - it is what, in many ways, brought me to Shakespeare. I approach Shakespeare's works in a variety of ways, certainly as an actor who sees that little on stage will be as viable, compelling and easy as Shakespeare. Most recently, beginning with my first reading of "Romeo and Juliet" as a mawkish pre-pubescent eighth grader, I have approached Shakespeare as a scholar. His work has been the focus of my studies in English Literature at Yale - the senior seminar I am taking now marks my third literature class on Shakespeare here. Most fundamentally and inescapably though, I am come to Shakespeare as a lover. Reading his texts for the fifty-ninth time at 3 am, while typing an essay furiously, marking up my Arden edition during rehearsal, thumbing through my Riverside while sipping tea over breakfast- it is the same act of sweet pleasure, and I come to it with the same enthusiasm and fervor. SHAKSPER would be tremendously helpful right now, as I am trying to get together a thesis in the next few weeks. Once I begin work on the essay, it would be deeply useful in guiding me with feedback and discussion of resources and past studies. I have many, many things to say about Shakespeare's work, and many, many questions to ask. ============================================================= *Kothari, Kamal My full name is Kamal Kothari, I am Male, 42 years, married, wife's name is Priti, have 1 son named Rahul. I am into the business of Corporate Financial Consultancy. We syndicate funds for large corporates. I am the Managing Director of Oriental Corporate Consultants Pvt. Ltd. I completed Senior Cambridge schooling from Bombay, India and am a Commerce and Law post-graduate. In school we had Shakespeare from 7th standard (grade) onwards. We studied Midsummer Nights Dream as a reader (not as a play) and Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice, Macbeth and Julius Caesar as full plays. I opted for Julius Caesar in the final year at school. So I have been a Shakespeare "student" from early days and have enjoyed his works. In 1987 I had visited England (based in London) for a holiday and my wife & I rented a car and went driving all over England and Scotland. Loved it. On the way to the Lake District I had scheduled a stopover at Stratford-upon-Avon and we spent the whole day there. My wife loved Ann Hathaway's cottage and surroundings. We wound up the day with strawberries and cream. Wonderful and memorable... Since the last 2 years I have "rediscovered" Shakespeare as it were. I am a student of Vedanta based on ancient Indian (read Hindu) scriptures. It is a practical Vedanta way of life that is taught at our weekly classes. The Institution that I go to is called Vedanta Life Institute and is run by a great man called Swami Parthasarathy. You may visit them at http://www.homeindia.com/vedanta Incidentally, I have played a major role in putting up the site. Its simple, in keeping with the ideologies of the Institution. Swami Parthasarathy is an ardent admirer of Shakespeare and freely quotes the Bard. It was a sheer quirk of fate that I happened to meet him...another Bardophile! He taught how to look at the philosophical aspects of Shakespeare's writings. So now I have started seeking the Bards teachings seriously and have completed Othello, Macbeth and am on the Sonnets. I intend to study the Sonnets properly and systematically....from a friend, Julia, on the Shakespeare list (humanities.literature.arts.shakespeare) I am in Bombay, India. Bombay, as you may be aware, is the commercial capital of the country. India is a great country and a huge place with diverse religions and ways of life. Wonder how many of you have visited. ============================================================= *Kovacs, Diane or Humanities Reference Librarian Kent State University Libraries Reference Office, Kent, Ohio 44242 phone: 216-672-3045 I am interested in eavesdropping on SHAKSPER for several reasons. The central one is to be able to pass information about it to Shakespeare scholars on my campus... and hopefully convince them to become involved in electronic conferencing. The second reason is that I am taking the graduate Shakespeare class this Fall and deciding if I should pursue my Ph.D. in English Literature... if I did I would choose to study Shakespeare, Tolkien or Chaucer... or all three. SHAKSPER's e-texts also interest me. I am working with the English faculty on a grant proposal to do a Shakespeare Hypertext system as a instructional tool for undergraduate Shakespeare and a research tool for the graduate and faculty Shakespearean scholars. I am interested in knowing if it is permissable to download the e-texts so we don't have to re-scan the texts for our project. =============================================================================== *Kowalski, Emmanuel My name is Emmanuel Kowalski. I am a French (which explains my sometimes poor English) student in Mathematics, although I am currently engaged in my military service as a conscientious objector at Stendhal University, in Grenoble, France. After that I shall go to Rutgers University, NJ, USA, to study for my PhD in maths. I am 25, and I'm interested in joining SHAKSPER only as a very amateur (though very interested) Shakespeare lover, being in no way a scholar or even a "professional" student in literature. I have read some of his plays, in French first and now in English, seen a few performances ("Hamlet", staged by Patrice Chereau, "The Tempest", staged by Peter Brook) and films, and read a few articles and books. "Little Latin and less Greek", I'm afraid. I certainly wouldn't be able to contribute anything interesting to the list, and I'm not sure whether I belong to the public it is intended for, but it seems a very good way to have regular informations, comments, or advice for further reading, about Shakespeare and Shakespeare studies, which may be hard to find, especially in a non English-speaking country. =============================================================================== *Kowalsky, Timothy <00TEKOWALSKY@bsuvc.bsu.edu> I was born in Connersville, Indiana in 1968, and graduated High School there in 1986. Since that time I have been a full or part time college student nearly every year. I have attended various Indiana University campuses, and am now a student at Ball State University. I am studying Theatre (Technical Option), with a minor in Psychology. I have worked in a variety of capacities as a technician, as well as, working as a Stage Manager, in numerous productions collegiate, and community, and done a small amount of professional work as a Stage Manager. I am presently the Production Stage Manager for Torchlight Productions -- a non-profit community theatre company dedicated to producing original scripts, and Shakespearean works. I am also a member of the Board of Directors. This fall marked the completion of our first annual national script-writing contest, administrated by myself. The Joseph E. Huston Distinguished Play- wrights Award competition drew entries from all across the continental US. It's winners will be produced this spring, and I will be the Stage Manager. This summer past, Torchlight produced Shakespeare's "Measure For Measure," with a western motif. I was the Stage Manager for that show as well. This summer, we will be producing "Julius Ceasar," in a futuristic context. As a member of Torchlight Productions, I am dedicated to the idea of spreading the works of Shakespeare in the public through new, and challenging means of staging, and non-traditional setting. We have thus far enjoyed a small amount of success in this regard, and hope to continue to increase our audience. Many of those who come to see our shows have never seen Shakespeare before, and in some cases, have never seen theatre before. We are also dedicated to bringing Shakespeare, and theatre in general, into schools. Last winter we produced a touring show of cuttings from several of the better known Shakespearean plays, and we are producing a touring show of original works this winter. =============================================================================== *Koyanagi, Yasuko I am Yasuko Koyanagi, a professor at the Department of English at Chofu Gakuen Women's Junior College, in Kawasaki, Japan. I have memberships in the following associations: MLA; The English Literary Society of Japan; The Shakespeare Society of Japan; Japan Association of English Romanticism; The International Byron Society; the Byron Society of Japan. I have published many articles in Chofu Bulletin, Essays in English Romanticism, Literature (a quarterly), and other Academic Bulletins. Recent articles are as follows: Women Revived through Multi-Media: A New Feminist Criticism(1995), Are Women Constant?---the Renaissance Feminists(1995), Mary Shelley's Mathilda: "My daughter, I love you!"(1995), Women's Writings Now---Criticism, Computer Textbase and Mary Wollstonecraft(1995). My major project is Re-Reading of English Literature by reading Women's Writings from the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century. I have started my project of Re-Reading of English Literature in 1992 and written on Margaret Tyler, Jane Anger, Lady Mary Wroth, Rachel Speght, Esther Sowernam and Constantia Munda. I will write on Bathsua Makin and Mary Hays this year. My goal is to write Women's Literary History and to prove that we Japanese can re-write English Literary History from our own perspective. In order to attain this goal, I now focus my research on women writers in the Early Modern Period. I am also interested in a new literary research possibilities through computer technology, because I firmly believe that we are responsible to show our young students the world they (we) live are not the same as it was. =============================================================================== *Kozikowski, Stanley I've taught Shakespeare at the college level some twenty years now;and I've written a few pieces, here and there, for learned journals on Shakespeare and drama of the English literary Renaissance. I am currently involved in a series of papers, my third will be this year on Shakespeare's Christian tragedies(H, O, KL, and M). I've been doing this work in conjuction with the Annual Medieval Forum held at Plymouth(NH) State College. I have several other literary interests, as well. =============================================================================== *Kozubei, Catherine Fitmaurice Catherine Fitzmaurice 206 Murray Road Curriculum Vitae Newark, Delaware 19711 (302) 366-1187 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Member since 1976 (ATA) Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), Charter member; Newsletter regional editor 1993-94 The Voice Foundation Actors Equity Association (AEA), Member since 1976 Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Member since 1979 American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), Member since 1979 CONFERENCES ATTENDED: ATA/ATHE/VASTA conferences: 1977, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994 Voice Foundation conferences: 1982, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1994 STUDENTS INCLUDE: Mary Crosby, Danny Glover, Kelsey Grammer, William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Mandy Patinkin, Lisa Pelikan, Christopher Reeve, Denzel Washington, Robin Williams ACTORS COACHED INCLUDE: David Birney, Barbara Carrera, Peter Donat, Melissa Gilbert, John Goodman, Harry Hamlin, Val Kilmer, Michael Learned, Anthony Newley, Haing Ngor (Academy Award, 1985), Amanda Plummer, Anna Deavere Smith, Dianne Wiest, Natalie Wood ========================================================================= *Kozusko, Matt I am a graduate student at the University of Georgia pursuing a Ph.D. in English. My areas of specialization are Renaissance drama, Renaissance non-dramatic lit., and rhetoric and theory, and as of fall 1998, I am preparing for comprehensive exams. I am considering Shakespeare as the centerpiece of my dissertation, though I have no fixed topic yet. I have enjoyed teaching a few of the plays here in various English courses, but I am even more fond of performance, having participated in a handful of spirited productions at the University of Texas's Shakespeare at Winedale. My interest in the internet grew out of an unhealthy preoccupation with the pre-web usenet and an equally unhealthy curiosity about unix. Either performance or computers-or both-will, I hope, serve as alternative pursuits to teaching when I finish my degree. ============================================================= *Kraft, Jan Like Tom Hall and Kathleen Kendrick, I am also a member of Dr. John Boni's Honors Seminar on Shakespeare. Tom and Kitty have spoken highly of the information they've received and I think it would be beneficial to me as a student and future English teacher to be a part of SHAKSPER. =============================================================================== *Kraft, Jerry I am a playwright and dramaturg with an enduring interest in the bard. =============================================================================== *Krakovsky, Marina I am no longer formally studying Shakespeare or writing any books/papers on the subject! I am now out of academia; I graduated from Stanford with a B.A. in English in December ('91), where I took a total of three Shakespeare courses. One of these was a tutorial I did in Oxford--through the Stanford program there--on "the Other" in Shakespeare. I am interested in feminist and racial themes in Shakespeare, using post-structuralist approaches (Foucauldian and deconstructionist, among others). I love close readings, paying special attention to ambiguities and tensions in meaning, and I like to consider the historical issues surrounding the creation of the plays. I am also very interested in staging, particularly modern productions which emphasize various political aspects of the plays. Because I'm not formally studying or writing about Shakespeare, I see myself more as a reader of the group than an active contributor. I would very much like to see what the experts are saying, which is why I'd like to get on the list. ============================================================================= *Kramer, Gregory I am Shakespeare enthusiast only. My interest in Shakespeare is that of a consumer. Certainly, over time, in pursuing this hobby I would like to think that some of my insights might be of interest to others. I received a B.S. in Finance from Arizona State University in 1987. =============================================================================== *Kramm, Maggi MAGGI KRAMM I am a recent PhD from the University of Minnesota, where I completed my dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Clayton. In my thesis, "Shakespeare's Romance of the Rose: All's Well That Ends Well and Domestic Drama," I make the case that this often-derided Shakespearean comedy is a supreme example of the "domestic drama" genre that Heywood and Dekker popularized around 1600-1606. I write for a number of national publications as a freelance arts journalist and have made a specialty of writing on Shakespearean productions in the US and abroad. I would appreciate hearing comments and suggestions from SHAKSPER members about any interesting stagings of Shakespeare around the world. I am currently working on a lengthy article about the new Globe Theatre, scheduled to open in April 1995, and intend to focus on the impact that this new/old venue is likely to have on the rest of the Shakespearean-theatre industry, in London and elsewhere. From June 1994 till June 1995 I will be residing in London. I don't know my London address yet, but mail sent to my US residence will be forwarded to me. I'd appreciate Shakespearean announcements of all kinds. Thanks! 1453 W. Minnehaha Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-1910 (612) 641-0857/644-0682 =============================================================================== *Krantz, Susan E. Susan E. Krantz is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Orleans (Lake Front, NOLA 70148; phone # 504-286-6147). She teaches Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, and other Early Modern courses. She is currently working on two porjects: 1) the Griselda materials, both dramatic and non-dramatic; and 2) the transgressive aesthetic in the plays of Thomas Dekker. In addition, she is interested in theater history. She has published articles on Shakespeare's Henry8 and on the Globe/Fortune rivalry. She is currently the Vice-President of the South-Central Renaissance Conference. =============================================================================== *Krasnansky, Mark I have taught high school English since 1974. I am currently the department chairperson, and I have taught Shakespeare to AP students as well as remedial students. I have a B.A. in English from Loyola College (Baltimore), an M.S. in Instructional Technology and Instructional Development from Towson State University, and 30 credit hours beyond my M.S. (mainly in school administration and supervision). =============================================================================== *Kraszewski, Barbara No! I am not a Shakespearean scholar, nor was meant to be; Am an associate professor, one that will do To plan a lesson, teach a scene or two, Advise undergraduates; no doubt, an easy tool. . . . Yes! Your letter gave me pause, For I have known the lists already, known them all:-- Have know the Poland, the Psyart, and the Derrida; I have measured out my e-mail in listserv bytes. And I have known the subscribers already, known them all-- The lurkers, the flashers, and the flamers, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? Shall I say, I have taught for twenty-five years at a state university in PA And have always included the bard's plays and sonnets in my syllabi, That a semester without "Othello" is not worth teaching, That "Hamlet," "MacBeth," and "King Lear" tease my students out of thought? That Rosalind, Beatrice, Helena, and Hermia measure out womanhood And that excess of the food of love is Shakespeare's metered measure? He heard the mermaids singing and taught me to stand at the mast, my ears unwaxed. To be "put on" the list may prove most worthy. =============================================================================== *Kratchman, Karen Hi. My name is Karen Kratchman, and I am a sophomore English major at Siena College in Albany, NY. I am currently taking a class on Shakespeare, which is the primary reason I wanted to join the listserv. However, I am also involved with the drama program in my school, and I am on the committee which selects the plays that we do each season. This year we want to do a Shakesperean play, so I was hoping to get some input on the list as to which plays to do and how to go about producing them. =============================================================================== *Krebser, Karen My name is Karen Krebser, and I am a graduate student in English Literature (with an emphasis in Creative Writing) at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. I also work full-time at SRI International, a research firm in Menlo Park, California. At work I represent the last line of defense between word-happy scientists and researchers and the unwary reader: I proofread. This occupation has given me a real appreciation for textual history and criticism, if you can believe it, which serves me well in my studies. I am currently studying Shakespeare, and am contemplating further study once I have completed my MA. I will enjoy studying and participating in this global electronic Shakespeare forum. =============================================================================== *Kreimer, Nora Nora Kreimer: I was born and brought up in the city of Buenos Aires, Federal District in Argentina in 1945. At the age og 17 I entered the Teachers' Training College Joaquin V Gonzalez in Buenos Aires, where I graduated in 1967. In 1972 I took my postgraduate course on Shakespeare submitting my thesis on "A Comparative Analysis of ROMEO AND JULIET and EL ROMANCE DE LOS CASTELVINES Y LOS MONTESES by Lope de Vega y Carpio. In 1969, I started my teaching career at the Teachers=B4Training College of the Consejo Superior de Ense-nanza Catolica, where I taught English Literature, until 1989; and Shakespeare in three post-graduate courses on HAMLET(1986), KING LEAR(1989) and OTHELLO (1990). In 1986 I went back to my alma mater, where I succeded in winning a competition which gave me access to hold the Shakespeare chair that my old professor had held when I was a student. I won this competition in 1989 and now my tenure in the Shakespeare course.for life. I have attended Shakespeare seminars in Buenos Aires, Argentina as from 1971, on Shakespeare=B4s Sonnets, Shakespeare=B4s Histories, A Comparative Analysis of TROILUS AND CRISEYDE by Geoffrey Chaucer and TROILUS AND CRESSIDA by W,Shakespeare I have published my thesis and an article on ROMEO AND JULIET - A Tragedy of Transgression in The English Language Journal, a magazine for the Latin American Teachers of English. I have also contributed to the publication of theatre programs of Shakespeare's plays by the Buenos Aires Suburban Players. There have been several seminars which I have moderated on various Shakespeare subjects apart form the post-graduate courses, which I have already mentioned: A bi-monthly seminar on "Shakespeare, Our Spectator"(1985); "Shakespeare's Ambitions: Richard III, Julius Caesar and Macbeth" (1986); "Shakespeare's Weddings: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW; ROMEO AND JULIET; AS YOU LIKE IT; OTHELLO and THE TEMPEST"(1987); "HAMLET AND OEDIPUS" (1987); "SHAKESPEARE=B4S DAUGHTERS" (1988); "SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS" (1989); "HAMLET=B4S SUICIDE" (1990); "KING LEAR AND THE FAIRY TALE" (1991); "SHAKESPEARE=B4S ALIEN CHARACTERS" (1992). There have also been individual lectures on plays such as : THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, HAMLET, OTHELLO, MACBETH, KING LEAR , RICHARD III, among others. My project for this year is to do a reading of a still undetermined Shakespeare play, which may be THE MERCHANT OF VENICE for a joint-publication with a Lacanian psychoanalist to be published in the first psy electronic magazine in Buenos Aires. The syllabus this year for my graduate course, which will start in April, like all college classes in the southern hemisphere is still in preparation. =============================================================================== *Krell, Mary Agnes Currently an MFA Student in northern CA, I am pursing an MFA in Directing for Theatre. My specific interests and area of research are: Heiner Mu"ller; and contemporary performances of Classical texts in Eastern Europe since 1989. My directing credits include Marlowe's _Doctor Faustus_, Sam Shepard's _Action_, A Performance Art Series, Numerous Original plays and (in production currently) Heiner Mu"ller's _HAMLETMASCHINE_. My background is in English and I speak both English and German. Although I am presently pursuing an MFA, my interests lie primarily in the field of Dramaturgy. I have been and will be a staff member for the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT '93 & '95) and will be studying in Berlin beginning in December of 1995. In addition to directorial work, I have created numerous Sound Designs for shows including Romeo & Juliet, Action, The Belle of Amherst, and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. I earned a BA in English Literature from Point Loma College and am pursuing an MFA in Directing at Humboldt State University. I have worked on productions in London, New York and San Diego with companies including Richard Schechner's "East Coat Artists," TELEOTHEATRE, Alarm Dog Rep., The Beijing Jing Ju Opera Troupe and Manhattan Motion Dance Company. =============================================================================== *Krell-Oishi, Mary I am a high school Theatrue teacher in Fullerton, CA. My school, Sunny Hills High School, in Fullerton, Ca is piloting on e of only 63 International Baccalaureate Theatre Programs in the world. My students are intelligent, eager, and enthusiastic to learn all aspects of theatre. It is my purpose to explore as many anvenues available to me to help me teach them w as well as I can. I am afraid my knowledge of Shakespeare is woefully in- adequate. My goal is to learn as much as I can in as many methods as are available, and pass this knowledge to my students. I am hoping that by joinging this group I will be able to expand my piti- fully small experience with Shakespeare and will be better able to share that knowledge with my students. =============================================================================== *Kremer, Michael <4kremers@GTE.NET> My name is Michael Kremer. I teach Drama at Etiwanda High School in Etiwanda, California and classes in both the English and Theater departments at Chaffey Community College in Rancho Cucamonga, California. I have an MA from Claremont Graduate School in English and American Literature. I have been active in directing theatrical productions for the last 20 years including a number of award winning Shakespearean plays including As You Like It, Much Ado, Macbeth and Richard III. I have a keen interest in anything Shakespearean, particularly from the production side. His plays have been the most rewarding and enjoyable I have ever directed. ============================================================= *Kremer, Michael My name is Michael Kremer. I live in La Verne, California and teach acting and drama, at least currently (I have also taught English, Computer Programming, American football, and Humanities - whatever they need), at the secondary level at Etiwanda High School in Rancho Cucamonga, California. I also teach a couple of classes in the English department at Chaffey Junior College, also in Rancho Cucamonga. I received my BA in English from the University of La Verne in 1969. It is here I began my love of Shakespeare. My MA in English and American Literature is from Claremont Graduate School. I love to read and see Shakespearean plays as often as I can (often at the Old Globe in San Diego), and I have had the great good fortune of directing As You Like It and Much Ado within the last five years at my high school. I thoroughly enjoy learning about Shakespeare and his work and have been looking for a resource like this for the past several years. By the way, my oldest child was born on April 23, and the decor of my home leans heavily into Shakespearean themes (fortunately my wife is as taken with the plays as I am). =============================================================================== *Kreps, Barbara My biography: I am associate professor at the University of Pisa (Italy), teach history of the English Language and am doing a seminar on Shakespeare's histories this year. Professionally I have divided my interests between 20th century British theatre and the Elizabethan-Jacobean period (obviously, or else we wouldn't be meeting this way). I have published on John Donne, Shakespeare, O'Casey, Pinter, and Stoppard. I have just finished a very long article on *Henry 8*: its title is "Iron Will and Irony: Henry 8's Succession." I foresee extending the legal studies encompassed in this article to the other history plays as my next project. =============================================================================== *Kreuger, Tonya 211 E. C. Grim Hall, 208 E. Patterson Kirksville, MO 63501 (816) 785-5360. Northeast Missouri State University. A Brief Shakespearean resume: Classes: Shakespeare (literature course @NMSU), Shakespeare: Text and Performance (graduate theatre/english course @BYU) Activities: chaired Shakespearean Interest Group (small, short-lived) at Brigham Young University, tutored Shakespeare 2 summers at the Joseph Baldwin Academy (3 weeks, for gifted Jr. High students) at Northeast Mo. State Univ. Performance/Directing: played Ophelia in the Nunnery scene in Experimental Theatre production at BYU, (various scenes for the Text and Performance class there as well), played Gertrude in the bedroom scene and Desdemona in the lie-to-Othello scene and performed a sonnet--also directed four scenes (couples--R&J balcony, B&B kill Claudio, Ros&Orl wooing, Ham&Oph nunnery [again]) at a production called "Shakespeare in the Park" at Winona State University. Every opportunity I find to incorporate Shakespeare into assignments for other classes, I do (I did a ten-minutes-on-theme-of-Hamlet-performance for my final in Oral Interpretation). I've been collecting poems and short prose works obviously inspired by Shakespeare (GB Shaw wrote a small play called "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets" that I recommend) over the course of this year. I am especially interested in feminist criticism of Shakespeare. =========================================================================== *Kreutzer, Kenneth Kenneth Kreutzer is an independent scholar who lives in Kent, Ohio. His primary field of research is literature of the Modernist era, but he has long been an avocational Shakespearean. He has studied Joyce and English Romantic literature with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Books on _Finnegans Wake_ and on Ezra Pound are currently under construction. =============================================================================== *Kroman, Alice Marie My name is Alice Marie Kroman and I am a student of English literature and Theatre at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. My fields of study include: Victorian novelists, Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, and the Greeks. I have directed several one-act plays, and have just concluded working as Assistant Director on a school production of _The_Two_Gentlemen_of_Verona_. I have also recently concluded an internship with The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., working as dramaturg for such directors as Joe Dowling, Barry Kyle, and Michael Kahn. My interests lie with various production concepts, script analysis, modes of research, directing challenges, dramaturgical criticism, and challenges faced by actors - in short, everything. =============================================================================== *Kron, Charles E. Charles E. Kron President, Kilgour & Kron Highland Bagpipe Makers 145 Palisade Street Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. 10522 (914) 693-7655 I was graduated in 1978 from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin with a B.A. in classics. I have no official connection to Shakespeare, and read none at university. It was at Larry U that I took a lot of poetry from Bert Goldgar. Also while at Larry U I attended our study center in London for two terms, where I witnessed Henry IV pts. 1&2 and Henry V w/ Allan Howard as Hal. Outside the opera house that was the most profound theatrical experience of my life. I occasionally catch Shakespeare in the park here in NYC, but object to the humiliation one is put through to get the free tickets. They realize people have to work, but nevertheless make one stand in line all day for that night's show. The people who run the theater un- Shakesperianly don't care about their audience, so their productions rarely click. On the rare occasion a play is done on Broadway it is of course too expensive, so my wife and I remain content to read the great man's work. A recent reading of The Tempest prompted me to join this listserve and to muse on the state of serious theater in New York. =============================================================================== *Kross, Karin I've been interested in Shakespeare for quite a while. I graduated from Rice University in 1996 with a BA in English, and I'm currently directing a production of "Julius Caesar" at Rice. I worked on several productions (Shakespeare and otherwise) when I was a student; since I graduated, I've been working as a technical writer and have been doing theatre in my free time. ============================================================= *Kuester, Marc Wilhelm My name is Marc Wilhelm Kuester, the 'ue' representing the German umlaut. I was born on the 7th of April, 1970, passed my Abitur in 1989 and entered university in Osnabrueck, where I still am. My main subject is physics where I expect to take my degree - Diplom - before the end of the year. In 1991 I decided to complement my studies by a five-year MA-course in (English) literature and history, which I hope to complete in 2 year's time. My principal motivation for taking it up was (and is) love for Shakespeare, to whom most of my time is devoted. So far I have not published on this field, though I did some research on the textual history of Othello which might in the eyes of Prof. Tilman Westphalen lead to a submission to the Shakespeare Jahrbuch. So far it exists but in draft form. I am a member of the German Shakespeare Association, and it is my aim to make Literary studies my profession. As a future project I would like to revise my results and extend them to other plays, though it is doubtful whether new insights could be established. Further points of interest are historical and political implications of the history plays, and war satire in Milton's Paradise Lost. =============================================================================== *Kujawinska-Courtney, Krystyna Chair of the British and Commonwealth Studies Centre, The University of Lodz, Poland. Since 1981 to present the Polish Bibliographer for the World Shakespeare Bibliography published annually in the USA. Shakespeare is the main field of my research. So far I have published two monographs, one in Canada (1993), the other in Poland (1997). My articles have appeared in print in Poland and abroad (Germany, Japan, Russia, USA, Great Britian). I have served as the editor for three collections of essays published in Poland. At the moment I work on my monograph on Ira Aldridge in Central and Eastern Europe. ============================================================= *Kundert-Gibbs, Kristin Ann Kristin Ann Kundert-Gibbs BA SUNY New Paltz MFA (acting) Ohio State U Affiliation: College of William and Mary As I am in the acting end of things, I have not produced any significant work on Shakespeare. I have, however, worked on several productions, and am very interested in the application of research and theory to the production of Shakespearean (and other Renaissance) plays. Additionally, I try to employ what I learn of Shakespearean productions to other dramatic work and to teaching acting in class. Representative work on Shakespeare productions: _Othello_ (Virginia Shakespeare Festival) _Twelfth Night_ (Porthouse Theatre, Ohio) _Midsummer Night's Dream_ (Karamu House Theatre, Ohio) _Macbeth_ (Karamu House Theatre, Ohio) _Taming of the Shrew_ (Actor's Summer Theatre, Ohio) =============================================================================== *Kuo, Leslie My name is Leslie Kuo. I am currently a sophomore in the English Department, Wuhan University, China. Since I entered the University, I have been playing an active role the Shakespearean Drama Society of Wuhan University, due to my unquenchable interest in Shakespeare and his masterpieces. The Society has a history of more than ten years and was first established with the assistance of a very distinguished Ph.D. in English Literature. In the past ten years, the Society has always cherished it original goals-to foster the understanding of Shakespeare's drama and other English plays. Intrigued by this Society, I signed up and has been working hard for it. Last year I acted successfully as Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" and this winter I will be acting as Romeo in the play "Romeo and Juliet" and the prep work for it is on the way. In order to enlarge and deepen my understanding of this literary giant and the whole English dramatic world, I am now willing to join your mailing list. ============================================================= *Kurtz, Georgiana My name is Georgiana Kurtz. I am an undergraduate student at the University of South Florida. Although I am a non-program student at this time, I am interested in pursuing a degree in technical writing. This semester I have enrolled in a course called "Early Shakespeare". The class will study five of Shakespeare's plays. =============================================================================== *Kuzel, Michele My name is Michele Kuzel and I am very interested in joining the group discussion of Shakespearean literature. I am attending Kent State University (majoring in English with a writing minor) in hopes of becoming a professor . Currently I am in a technical writing class in which I am required to "surf on the internet" in a group that I am interested in. I chose the Shakespeare group because I have always had a strong interest in his works. Also, I plan on continuing my education to receive my masters in Shakespearean literature. I thought that this group could give me some insight on the discussions out there by people already in the field. I have been in several Shakespeare classes and am enrolled in another one for the fall of 1995. I have written research papers and read many of his plays and sonnets. My last research paper was an in depth study of Shylock from . I looked at the play as a comparison of whether Shylock was the consistent villain or victimized humanity. I would appreciate access to your group so that, as a future professor, I will gain some insight on the discussions and ideas that "plague" the scholars today and also to be able to throw my ideas at others. =============================================================================== *Kwee, Tan Boon Kwee I am a student at the National University of Singapore. My full name is Tan Boon Kwee. I am in the Arts and Social Sciences faculty, first year, reading English Language, English Literature and Linguistics. I am rather new to taking Literature as a major and I am hoping that this could be a platform for added learning. =============================================================================== *