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Professional Scholarship
I am a charter member of the Shakespeare
Fellowship and an active member of the Shakespeare
Oxford Society, international groups centered on the
Shakespeare authorship question. Yes, I believe that
someone other than Will Shaksper of Stratford wrote all
those magnificent plays and poems! Most likely, the
writer was Edward deVere, the 17th Earl of Oxford and a
member of Queen Elizabeth’s inner circle. As an
Oxfordian, I have written a number of articles and have
spoken many times about his life and about the plays; I
am on the editorial board of a scholarly journal called
THE OXFORDIAN.
This year, I attended two conferences devoted to the
Shakespeare authorship question. In October, I traveled
to Carmel, CA and chaired a panel which critiqued
performances of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and
"Macbeth." In April, at Concordia University in
Portland, OR, I spoke about Shakespeare's bloody revenge
tragedy, "Titus Andonicus."
I am currently completing an edition of "Othello," a
task that would have been impossible without the help of
three gifted Blackburn students:
Jillian Stambaugh, Marie Sutterfield, and Emily
Johnston.
Contemporary British writers also fascinate me; I am a
charter member of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society and
have written an article for the newsletter. I travel to
England each year, and this June will be interviewing
novelist Isabel Colegate ("The Shooting Party" is
probably her best known book). For Fall semester 2008, I
shall be on sabbatical, primarilyworking on British
women authors (sometimes on campus and sometimes
traveling).
College Service
Twelve years ago, I
created the Blackburn British Study program, and I
continue to serve as its director. This work involves
selection of students for the spring semester each year
at the University of
Swansea, Wales.
Committee Work at Blackburn: ,Chair of the Mueller
Summer Fellowship Committee; service on Committee on
Academic Standing, Faculty Tenure, and Faculty
Relations; and advising the Work Program appeals Board.
For spring 2008, I assisted in the Program Review for
the Blackburn
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