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Terrance B. Kearns, Chair
Dept. of English
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR 72035
(501) 450-5103
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Biographical sketch:
Born: Staten Island, NY; 7-15-46
Education: Mt. St. Joseph H.S., Baltimore, MD (1964)
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass. (BA, 1968)
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (PhD, 1978)
(Diss: "Prisoner to the Palsy": A Study of Old Age in
Shakespeare's History Plays. Director: Charles R. Forker)
Academic employment: since 1974, Dept. of English, University of
Central Arkansas. Current position: professor and chair.
Interests: Shakespeare, the drama of the English Renaissance,
computer applications in the humanities.
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Marc W. Kuester
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My name is Marc Wilhelm Kuester, the 'ue' representing the German
umlaut. I was born on the 7th of April, 1970 and visited primary and
grammar school in Porta Westfalica, a small town not too far from
Hannover. In 1989 I passed my Abitur 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 years. My main incentive for this
decision was (and is) love for Shakespeare and his theatre. With
continuing reading it became necessary to study his predecessors as
well, and ever since I have become more and more fascinated by Tudor
drama, culture and history as a whole. Furthermore, Richard III. made
me interested to the arts of late mediaeval England and Chaucer.
So far I have not published on the period, though I have done
research on the textual history of Othello which is likely to be
submitted once in its final form.
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Glen Nichols
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I did my doctorate at the Drama Centre at U of T (completed 1991). I
began my graduate studies intending to specialize in Medieval drama.
While at U of T, I participated in various PLS productions, as well as
work at the Robert Gill Theatre. I eventually switched my research
area to French Canadian theatre, but one of my first real interests is
in origins of English Drama.
Here at UQAC I have very little opportunity to teach or discuss early
English drama (or drama of any sort, for that matter, but that is
ANOTHER story...), and I hope that through the REED-L, I may be able
to establish new professional contacts in continuing my interest in
the period.
My area of current study is textual transformations. What happens to
texts or performance pieces as they move from one culture to another
or even from one medium to another. The Medieval drama is another
rich area for exciting transformations. The Bible stories are not the
same in the Vulgate as they are under the hands of the Wakefield
master for instance.
I hope this gives you some idea of my pertinent background and
interest. I look forward to what REED-L has to offer.
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Mark Webster
Department of Theatre and Dance
University of Texas at Austin
home address:
1701 Alameda Dr.
Austin, TX 78704
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My name is Mark Webster. I am presently a doctoral candidate in
Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Texas at Austin.
Although my area of dissertation research is more contemporary (early
20th c. British theatre), I have for some time been quite interested
in medieval and early Renaissance English drama, and I recently
directed a production of <Mankind> here.
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Richard L. Homan, Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Rider College,
Lawrenceville, NJ, USA. [log in to unmask]
Ph.D. and M.A. in Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota
B.A. in English Literature, University of Notre Dame
I teach courses in acting, directing, and theatre history. I also
direct a play with a student cast each year. I began researching
medieval English drama after completing my graduate degrees (theses
were in German Expressionism and the plays of T. S. Eliot). I have
published articles on the Corpus Christi plays and the "Play of the
Sacrament" in *Educational Theatre Journal*, *Comparative Drama*,
*Themes in Drama*, *EDAM Newsletter*, and *Franciscan Studies*.
Currently, I am interested in productions of medieval plays whose
primary purpose is to interpret them for a modern audience. The
historical recreations at Toronto are, of course, of the highest
scholarly significance. Nonetheless, the theatre does not restrict
itself to this approach in presenting the Greek tragedgies, for
instance, or Shakespeare. I hope the variety of approaches used in
interpreting other great plays will come to be applied more widely to
the treasury of medieval drama as yet largely unknown to the general
theatre-goer.
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Tom Davey
graduate student/teaching associate
Department of English
UC Los Angeles
Los Angeles CA 90024
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Surface address:
1651 Veteran Ave. #6
Los Angeles CA 90024
310-478-4423
I'm merely a graduate student and my biography therefore is
rather brief.
I received my B.A. in English from UC Irvine in 1989, spent
two years in the M.A. program at UC Davis, and in 1992 began the
Ph.D. program in English at UCLA. As of this date (April 4, 1994)
I'm about to finish my second year at UCLA.
My current research activity centers on the transmission of
classical (primarily Latin) texts in 16th- and 17th-century En-
gland and their uses in the imaginative literature of the time.
The ideological strategies by which some rather objectionable
ancient texts ended up solemnly canonized is an area of
interest. So is the influence of Senecan tragedy.
I heard about REED-L from A.R. Braunmuller, one of my teachers
here at UCLA. I belong to the MLA, Association for Computers and
the Humanities, and the Malone Society.
--Tom Davey
