More biographies of both new and old members.... I eagerly await further submissions! AAY John J. McGavin e-mail: [log in to unmask] Present REED connection: working on the Provincial Records of Scotland (3 vols.) to complement the Royal Records. Graduated M.A.(Hons.), PhD from University of Edinburgh. Employed in Department of English, University of Southampton; member of Wessex Medieval Centre. To Oct 1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh. Teaching: English Literature and language up to 1650; Old Icelandic literature and language Research: Medieval English and Scottish Drama; Chaucer; rhetoric; fifteenth-century literature Publications: Most recently completed a book (in draft) on Simile and Comparison in Chaucer; chapter in festschrift on the Dramatic Prosody of Sir David Lindsay; previous articles on 'Sign' in the Chester Cycle (2) and on Chaucer (1). For three years was half of the 'Chaucer' reviewing team for Year's Work in English Studies. Opinions: available on private demand. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Belarie Hyman Zatzman Assistant Professor of Theatre York University Primarily any historical information related to Theatre. Thanks +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nerida Newbigin I teach Italian language and literature at the University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia. I work on fifteenth-century Florentine religious drama, both from a textual and philological point of view, locating and publishing manuscript plays, and from a performance and social history point of view. My study of plays in churches in fifteenth- century Florence (Annunciation, Ascension and Pentecost), with documents from state and confraternal archives, is being published by the Accademia della Crusca. I am currently working on passion plays in the Colosseum, 1490-1539 (in conjunction with art historian Barbara Wisch of SUNY at Cortland), and on a sixteenth-century Sienese comedy project with Laura Caretti and Roberto Bigazzi of the University of Siena. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I am an ABD at University of Washington, Seattle. As you might guess I studied medieval drama with John Coldewey. Apart from that course I have not done much in the area yet, but I am giving a paper at the MAP conference on a drama topic, and so would like to keep abreast of things via the list so as to avoid unnecessary embarrassment! I heard of REED-L via a listing of medeivalist e-lists recently circulated on MEDTEXTL and ANSAXNET (where I saw it); can't remember the name of the poster. @ __|__ James McNelis \ | / Dept. of English, GN-30 ----O\O\O\O\O\O\O\O--\ University of Washington \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \/ \ Seattle WA 98195 ([log in to unmask]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I heard about REED-L in the Net Guide that Torres and Vander Kolk put together. I'm a Doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, currently getting ready to take my comps. I spent last summer as a dramaturg for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, which ties me into the end of your timeline, but when I'm not working and writing for the Theatre, I spent a lot of time studying comparative folklore and the chance to discuss early ceremony and music from the British Isles looked too good to pass up. If you need more information or a CV, please let me know. I'm also one of the editors of the new electronic journal Theatre.Perspectives.International which will release its first issue at the end of March. I look forward to hearing from you and becoming involved with your group - Dave Reif / REIFSNYDER DAVID E <[log in to unmask]> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Biographical Information for Subscription to REED-L RE: S.A.Chisholm [log in to unmask] I am currently attending The Pennsylvania State University, as a undergraduate with a double major in History and English. I will be recieving my degree in August, and will continue on in the graduate history program, concentrating in British History. My areas of specialization are as follows: Tudor/Stuart England<social and religous history>, Renaissance Drama, and Medieval English History. I am particularly interested in Jacobean/Revenge tragedy. I am currently working on a project that looks at the various concepts of justice expressed in Revenge tragedy, and how those concepts reflect contemporary social attitudes and the institutions that maintained accepted codes of behavoir. I hope to have this completed and ready to submit for possible publication sometime in late May. I am working very hard on this project, as I intend to develop it into my masters thesis. I discovered REED-L after a friend recommended it to me.