From the sonnets to the Roman plays, from a tragedy in “fair
Verona” to a comedy in Padua, come discover the world of SHAKESPEARE
AND ITALY IN A 4-week CLASS LED BY UH PROFESSOR ANN CHRISTENSEN.
THURSDAYS, JUNE 4, 11, 18 AND 25, 2020 | 6:30 TO 8:30 P.M.
ABOUT PROFESSOR ANN CHRISTENSEN:
Ann Christensen is happy to serve as the first woman chair of the UH
English Department. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of
Illinois in 1991 and immediately accepted a position at the University
of HOUSTON to teach early modern literature and drama (including
SHAKESPEARE, Donne, Lady Mary Wroth, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, and
Christopher Marlowe). A faculty affiliate in the Women, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies Program, and founding member of the Empire Studies
Research Collective, Christensen approaches the period with gender and
power in mind. Her first book, _Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama in
Early Modern England 1590-1630 _(University of Nebraska Press, 2017)
focuses on the changing perceptions and experiences of travel,
commerce, and domesticity in England’s so called “age of
commercial expansion.” Her second book, a modern critical edition of
the anonymous 1599 play, _A Warning for Fair Women_, is forthcoming
from Nebraska’s Early Modern Cultural Studies Series; the play was
performed at Atlanta’s Shakespeare Tavern by the Resurgens Theatre
Company in 2018. A regular presenter at the Shakespeare Association of
America and Attending to Women in Early Modern Europe conferences, she
has also contributed to the Forum on Women and Mercantilism in the
Journal of Early Modern Women. The Teaching Shakespeare in Houston
Project that Christensen co-leads with Laura Turchi offers programming
and networking for area teachers who are interested in ways that
Shakespeare can empower youth. She has been the faculty sponsor of the
UH SHX Club and the UH Improv Club, The Profanimals.
Her work appears in _Early Modern Studies Journal, Early Modern
Literary Studies, Studies in English Literature, Marlowe Studies
Annual, and Early Modern Women,_ as well as _Gendered Routes and
Spaces in the Early Modern World _(Ashgate, 2015) and _Global Traffic:
Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture
from 1550-1700_ (Palgrave, 2008).
THE ICCC IS FUNDED IN PART BY THE CITY OF HOUSTON THROUGH HOUSTON ARTS
ALLIANCE.
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