Home > Faculty : Katherine Scheil
Specialties
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early modern literature
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theatre history and performance studies
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archival study
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history of reading
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women's studies/feminist criticism/history of women
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18th-century literature
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Shakespeare
Educational Background
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Ph.D.: English, University of Toronto, 1995.
Publications
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Book Review Editor, Theatre Survey. Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
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Women's Reading Groups of Shakespeare in America (book manuscript in progress). Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
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• 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.
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• "Filling in the ‘Wife-Shaped Void': The Contemporary Afterlife of Anne Hathaway.” Shakespeare Survey 63 (f2010). . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
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• "The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne Hathaway.” Critical Survey 21.3 (December 2009). Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
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• Co-editor (with Graham Holderness), Critical Survey 21.3 (2009): special issue on “Shakespeare and the ‘Personal Story’”. Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
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• 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.
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• “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.
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• “Public and Private Reading: Shakespeare and Women’s Reading Groups.” Reader: Issues in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy, 2006. . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
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• The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre. Bucknell University Press, 2003. . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
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• “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.
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• “Early Georgian Politics and Shakespeare: The Black Act and Charles Johnson’s Love in a Forest.” Shakespeare Survey 51 (1998). . Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
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• “Sir William Davenant’s Use of Shakespeare in The Law Against Lovers (1662) Philological Quarterly 76 (1997). Scheil, Katherine West, Author.
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• “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
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McKnight Research Award, University of Minnesota, 2007 - 2009
Courses Taught
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Women in Early Modern England
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Shakespeare's Comedies
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Gender and Genre in Renaissance Drama
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Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Women
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Shakespeare and After
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English Stage Comedy
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Restoration/Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Writing Women's Lives
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Literary Landscape of Britain
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