Dr. Lauren Shohet

Dr. Lauren Shohet, Luckow Family Professor of English, led two seminars for scholars, on "Forms of Time," at the Shakespeare Association of America conference in April. She published an essay entitled "Macbeth: The State of the Art," in Continuum Renaissance Drama: Macbeth, ed. John Drakakis and Andrew Hiscock (Arden). The i-pad app of Othello she edited for Luminary Shakespeare was released in fall 2013; it includes her commentary stream “What is a Self?” and a swipe gallery of Othello images from the Folger Shakespeare Library, plus commentary, curated and authored by Shohet and Peter Holland. She also delivered an invited lecture to the Northeast Milton Seminar on "Eve as New Media Scholar" at the University of Connecticut (November) and a paper on "The Fragrance of the Fall" at the Conference on John Milton in Murfreesboro, TN, in October. As a member of the Shakespeare Association of America Program Committee, she recently completed a term planning the 2015 conference.