Ralph Alan Cohen is co-founder and Director of Mission at the American Shakespeare Center and Gonder Professor of English at Mary Baldwin College.
Shakespeare enthusiasts, teachers, writers, speakers, students, literary critics and the general public are invited to attend what will be an exciting and intriguing exploration of one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies.
Campus Location: varies by event.
Taught by Associate Professor and Chair of English, Greg Roper, Ph.D.
Location: Braniff 302
Introductions:
Keynote: "Shakespeare's Language - As You Like It" with Ralph Alan Cohen
About Ralph Alan Cohen:
Ralph Alan Cohen is Co-Founder and Director of Mission at the American Shakespeare Center and Gonder Professor of Shakespeare and Performance and founder of the Master of Letters and Fine Arts program at Mary Baldwin College where he is also Gonder Professor of English. Among his many initiatives, Cohen also authored ShakesFear and How to Cure It: A Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare.
Ralph Alan Cohen was project director for the building of the Blackfriars Playhouse and he has directed 30 productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including America’s first professional production of Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
He also directed the first revival of Thomas Middleton’s Your Five Gallants and co-edited the play for Oxford University Press’s Collected Works of Thomas Middleton.
He twice edited special teaching issues of the Shakespeare Quarterly and has published articles on teaching Shakespeare as well as on Shakespeare, Jonson, and Elizabethan staging. He founded the Studies Abroad program at James Madison University, where he won Virginia’s award for outstanding faculty. He has frequently directed summer institutes on Shakespeare and staging sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In 2001, he established the Blackfriars Conference, a bi-annual week-long celebration of early modern drama in performance. In 2008, he won the Commonwealth Governor’s Arts Award. In 2009, he was the Theo Crosby Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. In 2013, he was awarded the Folger Shakespeare Library's prestigious Shakespeare Steward Award.
He earned his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College and his doctorate at Duke University.
Campus Location: Art History Auditorium
Moderator: Eileen Gregory, Professor of English, University of Dallas
Panelists:
Moderator: Stefan Novinski, Associate Professor of Drama, University of Dallas
Roundtable:
Moderator: Carmen Newstreet, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Dallas
Panelists:
Join us for refreshments in the Loggia of the Art History Auditorium.
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