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T1 - 19 September 2014: Pedagogical Partnership expands as MoEML Director visits Washington College, MD
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Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Kevin A. Quarmby is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner and a member of MoEML’s Editorial Board. He is Assistant Professor of English at Oxford College of Emory University. He is author of
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
Tom Bishop is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. He is Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he teaches in the English and Drama programmes. He is the author of
Shakespeare’s Theatre Games.
Briony Frost is an Education and Scholarship Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. Her teaching and research fields include: Renaissance literature, especially drama; Elizabethan and Jacobean succession literature; witchcraft; publics; memory and forgetting; and soundscapes. Her M.A. Renaissance Literature class (Country, City and Court: Renaissance Literature, 1558-1618) will prepare encyclopedia entries on many of the sites (numbered 1-12) on The Queen’s Majesty’s Passage.
Peter C. Herman is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. He is Professor of English Literature at San Diego State University. His most recent books include,
Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England
Sarah Hogan is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Wake Forest University. Her work has appeared in
Shannon Kelley is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Fairfield University. Her teaching and research fields include Lyric Poetry, Literary Theory, Ecocriticism, Early Modern Culture, Science Studies, and Renaissance Drama. Her class will prepare encyclopedia entries on the gardens on the Agas map, including the Bear Garden.
Kathryn M. Moncrief holds a Ph.D in English from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in English and Theatre from the University of Nebraska, and a B.A. in English and Psychology from Doane College. She is Professor and Chair of English at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland and is the recipient of the college’s Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is co-editor, with Kathryn McPherson, of
Meg Roland is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Literature and Art at Marylhurst University.
Anita Gilman Sherman is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at American University. She is the author of
Amy Tigner is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Associate Professor of English at the
University of Texas, Arlington, and the
Editor-in-Chief of Early
Modern Studies Journal. She is the author of
Donna Woodford-Gormley is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University. She is the author of
Shakespeare: From the Globe to the Global, and her students will produce an article on The Globe playhouse for MoEML.
Poet and playwright.
The history of the two Blackfriars theatres is long and fraught with legal and political struggles. The story begins in
Built in
The first purpose-built playhouse in England, the Theatre, located in Shoreditch, was constructed in
The Bear Garden was never a garden, but rather a polygonal bearbaiting arena whose exact locations across time are not known (Mackinder and Blatherwick 18). Labelled on the Agas map as The Bearebayting
, the Bear Garden would have been one of several permanent structures—wooden arenas, dog kennels, bear pens—dedicated to the popular spectacle of bearbaiting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Originally built as a Roman fortification for the provincial city of Londinium in the second century C.E., the London Wall remained a material and spatial boundary for the city throughout the early modern period. Described by high and great
(Stow 1:8), the London Wall dominated the cityscape and spatial imaginations of Londoners for centuries. Increasingly, the eighteen-foot high wall created a pressurized constraint on the growing city; the various gates functioned as relief valves where development spilled out to occupy spaces
Smithfield was an open, grassy area located outside the Wall. Because of its location close to the city centre, Smithfield was used as a site for markets, tournaments, and public executions. From
The Globe was the open-air, public theatre in which
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