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Katherine Scheil

English 210G Lind Hall
Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • early modern literature
  • theatre history and performance studies
  • archival study
  • history of reading
  • women's studies/feminist criticism/history of women
  • 18th-century literature
  • Shakespeare

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: English, University of Toronto, 1995.

Publications

  • Book Review Editor, Theatre Survey. Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • Women's Reading Groups of Shakespeare in America (book manuscript in progress). Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • Shakespeare and Modern Drama: Essays in Honour of Jill L. Levenson. (co-editor and contributor). Scheil, Katherine West, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2011 (under contract) , Author.
  • • "Filling in the ‘Wife-Shaped Void': The Contemporary Afterlife of Anne Hathaway.” Shakespeare Survey 63 (f2010). . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • "The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne Hathaway.” Critical Survey 21.3 (December 2009). Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • Co-editor (with Graham Holderness), Critical Survey 21.3 (2009): special issue on “Shakespeare and the ‘Personal Story’”. Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • Contributor, The Shakespeare Encyclopedia, ed. Patricia Parker (Greenwood Press, forthcoming 2010), entries on women critics and readers, eighteenth-century adapters, and “women reading Shakespeare”. Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • “Shakespeare’s Comedies and Women Readers,” invited essay in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love: A Festschrift for Alexander Leggatt . University of Toronto Press, 2009. . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • “Public and Private Reading: Shakespeare and Women’s Reading Groups.” Reader: Issues in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy, 2006. . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre. Bucknell University Press, 2003. . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • “Rouz’d by a Woman’s Pen: The Shakespeare: Ladies’ Club and Reading Habits of Early Modern Women.” Critical Survey 12 (2000). . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • “Early Georgian Politics and Shakespeare: The Black Act and Charles Johnson’s Love in a Forest.” Shakespeare Survey 51 (1998). . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • “Sir William Davenant’s Use of Shakespeare in The Law Against Lovers (1662) Philological Quarterly 76 (1997). Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
  • • “Sauny the Scott: or, the Taming of the Shrew: John Lacy and the Importance of Theatrical Context in the Restoration.” : Scheil, Katherine West, Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660-1700, 21 , 1997. . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.

Awards

  • McKnight Research Award, University of Minnesota, 2007 - 2009

Courses Taught

  • Women in Early Modern England
  • Shakespeare's Comedies
  • Gender and Genre in Renaissance Drama
  • Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare's Women
  • Shakespeare and After
  • English Stage Comedy
  • Restoration/Eighteenth-Century Literature
  • Writing Women's Lives
  • Literary Landscape of Britain
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