The Other

Last year, I presented my paper on military homosociality in Much Ado and Othello at the Utah Shakespeare Festival and Southern Utah University’s Wooden O Symposium. Had a blast. People were great. And I got to meet Mya Gosling of Good Tickle Brain fame. All in all, an outstanding few days.

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Shame(ful)less self-promotion…

OK, you all know I’m kinda (well, pretty… no: extremely) self-promotion-adverse… and I know this is a bit late (so let the psychoanalysis begin!), but:
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From Westworld to Indianapolis

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but at the end of March I’ll be presenting at the Popular Culture Association annual conference in Indianapolis, discussing the use of (primarily) Shakespearean references in the first season of HBO’s series Westworld, and how the use of these meta-texts help inform the series, its characters, and themes.

It’s been a bit tougher than I thought.

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Report from Utah: Wooden O Symposium at Utah Shakespeare Festival and Southern Utah University

Wow. What a day (so far–I write this Monday during a not-so-quiet respite at a wood-fired pizza place).

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Greetings from Cedar City, Utah!

Greetings, all!

Here I am in Cedar City, Utah, for the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Wooden O Symposium at Southern Utah University (enough Utahs in there for you?). Check out the promotional poster in my hotel’s window:

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English Paper: Prometheus as Byronic Hero, from Frankenstein to Battlestar Galactica

Today, a break from Cymbeline

As many of you know, I’ve gone back to school (part-time) to get my Masters; I’m kicking off my seventh course, now, “Renaissance and Restoration Literature.” A couple of month ago, I posted my “Literary Criticism” paper where I discussed Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, through Marxist and Deconstructionist theories. Late last year, I took a course on the Romantics, and I wrote a paper on the concept of the Byronic Hero, as seen in the mythical figure of Prometheus; the “Modern Prometheus” of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; and a kind of “postmodern Frankenstein” in Battlestar Galactica‘s Gaius Baltar.

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English Paper: The Handmaid’s Tale shot through two critical lenses

Today, another break (this one post-inaugural) from Pericles:

As many of you know, I’ve gone back to school (part-time) to get my Masters; I’m in the midst of my fifth course, now, “Shakespeare” (I figured I wanted something in my wheelhouse given rehearsals and the run of Much Ado coming up…), and a month ago, I posted my “20th Century American Fiction” paper where I linked Kevin Powers’ Iraqi War novel The Yellow Birds to Hamlet

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English Paper: Iraqi War Vet as Hamlet Analog

Today, a break from Timon of Athens:

As many of you know, I’ve gone back to school (part-time) to get my Masters; I’m in the midst the fourth course, “British Romanticism,” but for the last class, “20th Century American Fiction,” I had to write a 15-20-page paper. Why do I mention this? Because, believe it or not, I was able to tie The Yellow Birds (an Iraqi war novel) to Shakespeare…

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