Screenshot: ‘Foul Whisperings, Strange Matters: Shakespeare’s Macbeth in SecondLife’ Image source: Flickr Sunday, 28 December 247. Public Shakespeares 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Continental 1–2, Hilton Program arranged by the Division on Shakespeare Presiding: Mary Thomas Crane, Boston Coll. 1. “Screen Play,” Katherine A. Rowe, Bryn Mawr Coll. 2. “Stupefying Vulgarity,” Gary Taylor, Florida State Univ. 3. … Continue reading »
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Literature Compass March Issue – Keywords
The March issue of Literature Compass is now available here! Here is a keyword stream for this issue: Modern American Fiction, Digital Scholarship, Celia Fiennes, Uses of Antiquity, Monsters and the Exotic, Elizabethan Landscape, Tudor Coronation Ceremonies, Pfau, Wordsworth, and Hegel, James Woodhouse, Donne’s Letters, Anne, Lady Halkett, the Early Modern Boy-Actress, Shakespeare and Narrative, … Continue reading »
Call for Papers: 2009 Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference – “Breaking Down Barriers”
The first Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference, to be held in October 2009, aims to help break academic boundaries – within and between disciplines, between theory and practice, approaches and methodologies – by providing a space for multi- and cross-disciplinary review on the theme of “Breaking Down Barriers“. Abstracts are invited for survey/review papers from the … Continue reading »
Literature Compass 2007 Graduate Essay Prize – Shakespeare
We’re pleased to be able to finally announce that the winner of the 2007 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Shakespeare section, is: ‘Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Post-Reformation Desire’ by Patricia Marchesi (University of Colorado, Boulder) The final results are listed below (also available as a PDF). Winners and runners-up will be published in Literature Compass over the … Continue reading »
The Shakespeare Association of America conference, Dallas, March 13-15, 2008
Image: John W. Waterhouse, Miranda – The Tempest (1916) (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Guest Post: Alan Galey (University of Alberta) This year’s SAA conference was a standout in my experience, which so far includes most of the SAA meetings since 2002. Aside from offering an escape from the lingering winter in my home city of Edmonton … Continue reading »
Literature Compass MLA Panel – Video Now Online!
We’re extremely pleased to announce that the Literature Compass MLA Panel, ‘Got ECCO? The Contents and Discontents of Electronic Media for Early Modern Studies’, is now available to watch online! The videos are embedded in this post below, and you can also watch them via our Compass Journals channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com/CompassJournals. The panel … Continue reading »
2007 MLA Convention – Digital Perspectives
Photo: ‘Cloud Gate‘ sculpture, more popularly known as ‘The Bean’, in Millennium Park, Chicago. ———- The MLA this year as usual provided many opportunities to meet, discuss with, listen to and be challenged by the scholarly community and the rich variety of work in progress. With Literature Compass in mind, I was particularly interested to … Continue reading »
Literature Compass 2007 Graduate Essay Prize – Results
Many thanks to all those of you who entered the 2007 Graduate Essay Prize – and also for your patience during the judging process this year which was very tight in many sections. The final results are listed below (and are also available as a PDF). Winners and runners-up will be published in Literature Compass, … Continue reading »
Literature Compass MLA Panel & Pre-MLA Round-Up
All MLA attendees are warmly invited to the Literature Compass panel at this year’s conference, organised and chaired by our 18th Century Section Editor, Cynthia Wall and including our Editor-in-Chief Peter Brown on the panel. The session will also be recorded and made available available via the Compass website after the conference. It would be … Continue reading »
Shakespeare In Europe (in Romania): “Nation(s) and Boundaries” International Conference, 14-18 Nov 2007
(Further images from the conference can be seen at http://pages.unibas.ch/shine/IASIconfpictures.htm). Guest Post: Jim Welsh, Co-Founding Editor, Literature/Film Quarterly, and English Professor emeritus, Salisbury University (Maryland) (jxwelsh@salisbury.edu) “ShInE” is the acronym for “Shakespeare in Europe,” a conference held in November 2007 at the “Alexander Ioan Cuza” University in the city of Iasi, in northeastern … Continue reading »
3rd British Shakespeare Association Conference (University of Warwick), 31 Aug – 2 Sept 2007
Guest Post: Christie Carson (Royal Holloway University of London) The third biennial conference of the British Shakespeare Association was opened by a combined welcome from John Joughin, Chair of the BSA and Carol Rutter, Director of the CAPITAL Centre at Warwick University, a co-sponsor of the event. I elected to begin the conference with a … Continue reading »
Day One: British Shakespeare Association Conference (University of Warwick)
Commitments elsewhere keep me away from the meeting until the first plenary, given at noon by Philip Davis of Liverpool University under the title ”The Shakespeared Brain”. Davis works with brain scientists on the subject of what happens inside the head when reading Shakespeare. The tools are the electro-encephalogram (EEG), the magneto-encephalogram (MEG), and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Shakespearians aren’t used the his … Continue reading »
Editing Shakespeare’s First Folio
The Guardian has a podcast interview with Jonathan Bate on editing Shakespeare’s First Folio, as well as contributions from the RSC’s director Michael Boyd and Deborah Shaw, director of the RSC’s Complete Works Festival. Podcast: http://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Books/Books/2007/04/23/Shakespearefinal.mp3 Via Andrew Dickson’s blog post: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/04/happy_birthday_dear_william.html
Shakespeare, Lions and Laughter: South Africa’s Conference
Image (L-R): Adrian Kiernander (University of New England, Armidale) chatting to Fourie Botha (Nasou Via Afrika publishers) and Victor Houliston (University of the Witwatersrand) at the conference opening. Guest Post: Laurence Wright (Rhodes University, South Africa) Turning Shakespeare into Chinese Opera, Ninagawa’s Tempest, Othello in Carné’s Les Enfants du Paradis, ‘Leinad’’s strange Shakespearean play based … Continue reading »
Shakespeare Association of America – again
I too was in San Diego for the SAA conference, and, here’s some of my observations, at the risk of confirming the sense that academic discourse is entirely solipsistic – we go to conferences and talk about ourselves, and then come home and report on all those conversations. Enough about me: what do you think … Continue reading »
Historical Formalism at SAA
So, I spent most of SAA in San Diego this year carrying around my dog-eared copy of Haruki Murakami’s Wild Sheep Chase—the perfect traveling companion as it’s about being in transit and figures a world of trains, cars, planes, and hotels. It also flirts with pre-cognition, odd coincidences, psychically inclined lovers with beautiful ears, magical … Continue reading »
SAA: Shakespeare and the Invention of a Mass Audience seminar
Guest Post: Andrew Murphy (University of St. Andrews) It’s always a little difficult to come up with a satisfactory format for SAA seminars. In a perfect world, you want to have a lot of free-flowing discussion, but at the same time you also want to make sure that everyone gets a decent amount of ‘airtime’. … Continue reading »
SAA: Shakespeare and the Invention of a Mass Audience
Guest Post: Andrew Murphy (University of St. Andrews) I’m attending the SAA this year to run a seminar on ‘Shakespeare and the Invention of a Mass Audience’. It’s a topic I arrived at through some work I did on the history of Shakespeare publishing and editing. A striking feature of Shakespeare publishing is the extraordinary … Continue reading »
RSA Miami II
I’m in my hotel foyer waiting for a cab, the soul-crushing sound of soft rock dripping from the ceiling speakers, which perhaps explains the carpet designs. One thought springs to mind. I heard a number of highly compelling book history papers but one feature that many of them shared began to trouble me. And that … Continue reading »
RSA
Here I am, embedded, frontline, in Miami. So far, a mixed bag. There’s a discernible sense of chaos about the conference organisation: the big printed programme muddles times and venues and as a result agitated academics wander the corridors in pursuit of the ‘Picasso’ suite when they thought they were in ‘Degas’. Shuttle buses don’t … Continue reading »
