ENG 564 0 - Shakespeare in the World

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Shakespeare In the World (ENG 564)

Term: 2022-2023 School Year Fall Semester

Faculty

Kirstin James-Dunn
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Hello: I am Dr. Kirstin James-Dunn. Welcome!

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Email: Dunn_K@Heritage.edu

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4-5 PM PST on Mondays and Tuesdays (unless scheduled as a campus holiday)

Here is the Online Office Link: https://heritage.zoom.us/j/3499442728  

Online Proficiency Review:

Online Readiness Self-Assessment (jotform.com)

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Education 

  • PhD Museology (Specialization Spatial Rhetoric, Representation, and Research Methods), University of Leicester, United Kingdom 
  • Granada Certification in Documentary Film Direction and Production, University of Manchester, United Kingdom 
  • MA Museology (Heritage Studies), University of Manchester, United Kingdom 
  • MA (ABT) Professional Development in Teaching English, Heritage University, Toppenish WA. USA
  • M.Ed. CHRD: Adult Education, Heritage University
  • B.A. Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College

Research and Teaching History

  • The British Library, London
  • The British Museum, London
  • The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University
  • The Royal Anthropological Institute, London
  • Symposia, Cambridge University
  • University of Leicester
  • Granada Television
  • The Royal College of Surgeons, London
  • University of Manchester
  • American Indigenous Research Association
  • Heritage University, Toppenish (and Online)
  • The Evergreen State College, Olympia
  • Central Washington University, Ellensburg

Schedule

Tue-Thu, 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM (8/22/2022 - 12/9/2022) Location: TO PETRI 1118

Description

This course provides the opportunity to study William Shakespeare's plays in the Renaissance context while also exploring how non-Western peoples (countries like Mexico, South Africa, and Japan, as well as Native American cultures) have incorporated and negotiated Shakespeare's works into their own modern approaches. The class will discuss the cultural, political, racial, gendered conflicts that dominate the Shakespearean conversation. In addition, this course will expose students to the nature of the English language and its literature along with the role these elements have played in colonialism. While many argue that it is Shakespeare's universalism that allows his plays to endure, this class will also examine the question of the endurance of Shakepeare's plays, pondering whether it is their universalism or the colonization of indigenous cultures, supplanting them with a modern "Western" culture. Equipped with a variety of critical/theoretical practices, students will be asked to ne