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Towards a Pragmatechnic Shakespeare Studies: A Review-Essay on U. Cambridge’s Shakespeare and the Digital World
(2015)
A review essay of the 2014 book, Shakespeare and the Digital World: Redefining Scholarship and Practice edited by Christie Carson and Peter Kirwan (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
A Library Matter of Genocide: Native North American Genocides in Library of Congress subject Headings and Classification
(2016-02-03)
The ways in which genocides, war crimes and atrocities are recognized by history can often depend on political considerations and alliances, and are, as a result, reflected in the language used to describe them. So it is ...
“By Nature Fram’d to Wear a Crown”? Decolonizing the Shakespeare Authorship Question
(Brief Chronicles, 2014-01-01)
The paper suggests that the academy's marginalization of Shakespeare authorship scholarship originates in the imperial origins of the broader culture, in particular within the totalizing, essentialist and self-aggrandizing ...
Stratfordian Epistemology and the Ethics of Belief
(The Oxfordian, 2022-09-08)
This article considers belief in the traditional biography of Shakespeare -- that he was the "man from Stratford" -- in terms of belief ethics, to determine whether or not it is ethical and praiseworthy, or unethical and ...
Knowledge Ill-Inhabited: The Subjugation of Post-Stratfordian Scholarship in Academic Libraries
(The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2015-09-13)
Since 2000 there has been a surge of scholarly and popular publishing supporting the proposition that the name “Shake-Speare” was a pseudonym disguising a nobleman named Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, while the ...
The Curious Case of Academic Publishing
(Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2013)
The recent controversy over The Edwin Mellen Press lawsuit against McMaster University librarian Dale Askey is considered a symptom of a larger problem: the unsustainable demands from the academy itself which have created ...
Enhancing Cultural Capital: The Arts and Community Development in Winnipeg
(2005-09-17)
This research highlights the contribution that community-based arts organizations are making in Winnipeg ‘s inner city. The project reveals that there is not only a wealth of artistic and cultural resources in the inner ...
With Swinish Phrase Soiling Their Addition: Epistemic Injustice, Academic Freedom, and the Shakespeare Authorship Question
(Emerald Publishing, 2020-11-23)
This chapter argues that the near-universal exclusion from the academy of the Shakespeare Authorship Question (or SAQ) represents a significant but little-understood example of an internal threat to academic freedom. Using ...
Report on Proposal Development At the Winnipeg Site
(Mental Health Commission of Canada, 2010-09)
This document reports on the efforts of the Winnipeg Site in developing its proposal and coming
together as a Site. It is based on a series of interviews and focus groups utilizing a common
research protocol developed ...
Six Shakespeares in Search of an Author (Book Review)
(The Oxfordian, 2018-09-07)
A common objection levelled against authorship doubters is that the
number of candidates claimed for the authorship of the Shakespeare
canon makes it highly unlikely any of them could have been the true
author. In My ...
Introduction: Public Libraries and Resilient Cities
(ALA Editions, 2012-01-01)
"My Library Was Dukedom Large Enough": Academic Libraries Mediating the Shakespeare Authorship Debate
(Partnership: The Journal of Canadian Library and Information Practice and Research, 2013)
The "Shakespeare Authorship Question"—regarding the identity of the poet-playwright—has been debated for over 150 years. Now, with the growing list of signatories to the "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt," the creation of ...
Portage la Prairie Social Planning Initiative: Phase One Report
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2009-08-01)
The Institute of Urban Studies (IUS), in partnership with the Portage Community Network (PCN), undertook a public engagement process to produce a social planning framework for the city of Portage la Prairie. This report ...
Seeing the Forest for the Trees on Mars: Locating the Ideology of the “Library of the Future”
(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2017)
For many decades now library practitioners have been generating a vast literature concerned with the “library of the future.” While much of this literature may be classified according to its imperatives for radical versus ...
Sculpting the Future: Planning for Libraries in Transformation
(Partnership: The Journal of Canadian Library and Information Practice and Research, 2013)
Books reviewed
Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library. Edited
by Joseph Janes. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow press. 2013. Print: 161 pp. 45.00
USD. ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8714-5 (pbk. : alk. paper); ...
Out of the Long Dark Hallway: Voices From Winnipeg’s Rooming Houses
The purpose of this study is to critically examine rooming houses from a community-based “people and place” perspective. This approach includes surveys, in-depth interviews and a workshop. The instruments used in the study ...
Becoming an Oxfordian: The Phenomenology of Shifting Research Paradigms in Shakespearean Biography
(2018-06-16)
This essay seeks to gain a phenomenological understanding of the journey from skepticism in the traditional biography of Shakespeare to belief that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the poet-playwright, and how this ...
Joseph Rosenblum, “The Authorship Questions,” in The Definitive Shakespeare Companion: Overviews, Documents, and Analysis (vol. 1): 79-94
(Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2018-11)
An early chapter of the 2018 reference work, The Definitive Shakespeare Companion: A Comprehensive Guide for Students concerning the Shakespeare Authorship Question, is found to be inadequate, poorly-researched and filled ...