UBUKATA, Yoko I am in the second year of a Master of English Literature program at Gunma Prefectural Women's University, Japan. As an undergraduate student at the same university, I was charmed by "the play-within-the-play" and I wrote my thesis on the function of it in one of the Shakespeare's works. It was an interpretation of -A Midsummer Night's Dream-, titled "The Border-Crossing Seen Through the Fictional Illusion"(1995). Under the guidance of Mr. Todokoro, I am now building upon this study to look at the role of the play-within-the-play, focusing on Shakespeare's early comedies: The Comedy of Errors-, -The Taming of the Shrew-, -The Two Gentlemen of Verona-, -Love's Labour's Lost-, and -A Midsummer Night's Dream-. I chose to study Shakespeare's comedies, rather than his tragedies because they have more theatrical elements, such as playful spirits on the stage, which fully reflect Shakespeare's idea of the play, in other words, World Theatre. I also study Shakespeare by acting. As an undergraduate, I belonged to a university drama group called "ACT" , directed by Mr. Todokoro. We annually staged one of Shakespeare's plays using his original language. I have performed Demetrius and Peter Quince in -MND-(1991). I now belong to a general (amateur) drama group called "Shakespeare's Playhouse". This drama group was also established by Mr. Todokoro. I have performed Adriana in -ERR-(1996) and Launcelot in -MV-(1997), both of which were performed mostly in Japanese because of the current and local needs. I am hoping to become a Japanese English high school teacher in Gunma, my home prefecture. I hope through teaching English to share my love of the pleasant resonance of the spoken word and of the deep meaning and interpretation of the written word. Privately, I have been teaching elementary school children the basic skills to study English such as memorizing the alphabet so that they can look up dictionaries quickly and easily, and pronouncing English words precisely and attractively through nursery rhymes and 'Mother Goose'. I also privately teach junior high school students, concentrating on reciting and writing on the basis of what they learn at school. ============================================================= *Ulen, Amy My name is Amy Ulen, and I am the Head Teacher at the Moscow Alternative School Center (MASC) in Moscow, Idaho. My school is primarily for kids who have previously dropped out of high school. I'm currently a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, Idaho Education Association, Moscow Education Association, and I'm the vice-president of Moscow Community Theatre. I recently attended the 1994 National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare. From that Institute, I have decided to pursue a Masters degree in Educational Theatre with an emphasis on Shakespeare's texts. It is my hope to begin a Shakespeare Festival for Pacific Northwest high schools and alternative schools within the next few years. =============================================================================== *Ulibarri, Steve My name is Steve Ulibarri. I am a senior at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, majoring in English--Creative Writing. My only publication is a sports article in the college newspaper some years back. I've been taking, and will continue to take, literature courses. In the fall of 1995, I will be taking Shakespeare--Tragedies along with several other literature courses. Then, in the spring of 1996, I will take Shakespeare--Histories and Comedies. My current major project is to graduate by July 1, 1996 at which time I can devote more time to the art of writing. I studied "The Tragedy of Othello" in Lit Analysis last semester. That is when I decided to read the complete works of Shakespeare. I have an Associate of Arts degree from Albuquerque Tech Institute, April, 1993. =============================================================================== *Ulin, Donald I'd like to join SHAKSPER, but since I don't have a 500-word biography prepared, this will be a *lot* briefer than that. My field is Victorian Studies, and I've published articles in that area in *Victorian Studies*, *Cultural Critique*, and *Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates* (ed. Sadoff and Cain, MLA, 1994). This summer I will defend my dissertation at Indiana University on tourism and the remaking of the countryside in nineteenth-century England (directed by James Eli Adams), but the reason I am interested in SHAKSPER is that in the fall I will be starting as an Assistant Professor and a generalist at the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford. One of my first courses will be Shakespeare, and although I took a wonderful graduate seminar with Linda Charnes (one of the best graduate courses I took), I want to hook up with a community that is currently engaged in discussions of Shakespeare. ============================================================= *Ullyot, Michael I am a graduate (M.Phil) student at Cambridge University, studying Shakespeare's history plays with Anne Barton. My research interests are varied, but include the narrative implications of writing myth, fiction and history, issues surrounding canon theory and manifestations of Shakespearean material in popular culture. ============================================================= *Ulrey, Jeremy My name is Jeremy Ulrey. I am an English student at West Texas A&M University. My goal is to become a writer of some lasting significance, and to that end I am attempting to devour all the major influences of the past. I place as much emphasis on reading follow-up criticism to each of the major works as I do the works themselves. My interest in Shakespeare as the epitome of both style and characterization is thus assured. ============================================================= *Ulrich, Beatrix L. My name is Beatrix Louise Ulrich. I am a graduate student at the University of South Dakota, pursuing an M.F.A. in costume design. I have always enjoyed Shakespeare and am interested in what other have to say. I have worked as a designer on several productions of his plays, most recently Richard III at Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD. ============================================================= *Underwood, Carleton Carleton B. Underwood, Lighting Designer Post Office Box 2633 Zanesville Ohio 43702-2633 U.S.A. (614) 454-0881 MR_CA_CBU@OHIO.GOV Work address: Carleton B. Underwood Internet: MR_CA_CBU%ODNVMS@MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU Systems Analyst MR_CA_CBU@OHIO.GOV (preferred) Ohio Dept. Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities Cambridge Developmental Center 66737 Old 21 Road, Cambridge, Ohio 43725 U.S.A. FAX: 614 453-0706 Voice: 614 432-0258 Degree held: Bachelor of Science in Communications, Radio - Television Broadcasting 1974 - Ohio University I work with a local community theatre in Zanesville Ohio in marketing and technical theatre. In trying to expand our audiences and serve a wider population, we have begun to interpret our productions for the hearing impaired using American Sign Language. We are interested in sharing our experiences and gaining an understanding about what others have done in these areas. As we have produced Shakespeare in the past without interpretation for our hearing impaired audiences, we would like to begin to include these works ,in our future seasons. Our project presently concerns _The Taming of the Shrew_ but will expand as time permits. We would hope that this mailing list and archives might serve as a repository for scripts and translations for ASL. =============================================================================== *Urban, Joseph I've no publications to mention/cite, I'm not a member of any professional organization, nor am I engaged in any academic research projects. I'm working on a poetics of action, part of which I've submitted to the University of Michigan, where it's been rather favorably reviewed. For whatever that's worth. :-) I teach College level mathematics & French, as well as translate for a number of overseas organizations and institutions. =========================================================================== *Urban, Marsha M. Hello. My name is Marsha M. Urban, and I'm a second semester Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno, where I received my M.A. in literature. My B.A. (English and secondary education) is from King's College in Pennsylvania. I have been a research assistant for Eric Rasmussen for the past two years. As part of the _Hamlet_ Variorum, I worked at the British Library for two weeks last May doing type recurrence of Q2. There, I found a manuscript written by Anne Brockman (never published). This may be my dissertation topic. My committee members are: Susan Baker (chair), Eric Rasmussen, and Morris Brownell. Since Brockman wrote between 1709-1714, I'm still decided on my time period. In the past two weeks, I have also decided to concentrate on drama, women's literature, and Aphra Behn for my comprehensive exams. In the future, I plan to edit Brockman's work from a cultural perspectives slant. I presented "Speaking for the Silenced: Lady Mary Wroth's _Pamphilia to Amphilanthus_" at the RMMLA last October. ============================================================ *Urkowitz, Steven City College, CUNY, Department of English, 137th Street & Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031 Phone: (212) 650-6363. I am currently the Acting Director of the Shakespeare Institute, part of the Center for Advanced Study of Theatre Arts (CASTA) at the CUNY Graduate Center, but my major commitment is at City College of New York, the oldest of ten senior colleges in the City University system. I've written primarily on the theatrical possibilities of the earliest printed versions of Shakespeare's plays, often making unpleasant remarks about how modern editors alter and misrepresent some of the most interesting moments found in those earliest texts. Teaching, teaching Shakespeare, and teaching basic writing have been major practical and professional interests: 1990 and 1991 find me as "head scholar" for the Folger Library summer institutes for secondary school teachers. I encourage people to look at these plays as plays since I have an unshakable belief that the man was not trying to be a philosopher, or a historian (new or old), or even (most of the time) much of a poet. But he was doing his damnedest to write plays. As students of his work, I think we have a primary obligation to learn how plays function, how they grab audiences, how the scripts instruct actors, all that technical stuff that too many people just don't understand yet. I can be reached by mail at City College, CUNY, Department of English, 137th Street & Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, phone 212 650-6363. ======================================================================== *Usher, Peter D. Born: 1935 in South Africa. Education: University of the Orange Free State (BSc, BSc(Hons)) and MSc (Applied Math) and Harvard University (PhD, Astronomy). Professional Societies: Royal Astronomical Society, American Astronomical Society, International Astronomical Union. Publications: over 60 papers in refereed journals (ApJ, ApJLetters, ApJSuppl, AJ, PASP, MNRAS, AstAp, QAM, and others). Research Fields: Quasars, Faint Blue Objects, Galaxies, History of Astronomy, topics in philosophy of science. Shakespearean interests: include the astronomical aspects of plays and sonnets. Recent paper: "Shakespeare's Cosmic World View" Mercury Vol 26, Jan/Feb, 20, 1997. =============================================================================== *Uttranadhie, Alberto My name is Alberto Uttranadhie, and although I was born in Bangkok (Thailand) on June 29th, 1967, I am living in Spain since 1974. I am working as a satellite controller. I am graduate in English Studies at UCM (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) in 1995; I have not specialization in my studies, because when I did it, it did not exist; although I must say that I always focus my interests in English literature from Anglo-Saxon to Shakespeare periods. English language history is also of my interest. I have also studied Celtic Irish literature, but only as an introduction and complement to Anglo-Saxon literatures. About Shakespeare's works, I should say that I have been always interested, but I could not study them as much as desired due to my researches on Chaucer's work. I am also composer, and as musician I had the chance of write music for two Shakespeare's plays (_A Midsummer's Night Dream_ and _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, which is I am working on right now). ============================================================= *