Kathryn R. McPherson
Utah Valley University
Department of English and Literature
800 W. University Parkway, #153
Orem UT 84058
[email protected]
182 South 350 East
Orem UT 84058
H: (801) 426-9306
W: (801) 863-8055
M: (801) 310-3526
Current Position
Professor of English & Literature, Utah Valley University
Director, Utah Valley University Honors Program
Co-Editor, Shakespeare Life and Times, Internet Shakespeare Editions
Education
Ph.D., English Renaissance Literature, Department of English, Emory University
Certificate, Institute of Women’s Studies, Emory University
M. A. in English, with Distinction, University of New Mexico
B. A. in English, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of New Mexico
Recent Honors and Awards
Trustees Award, Utah Valley University, 2012
Alumni Outstanding Educator Award, College of Humanities & Social Science, UVU, 2011
Service Learning Fellow, UVU, Fall 2010
Faculty Excellence Award, College of Humanities & Social Science, UVU, 2010
National Endowment for the Humanities Instititute, “Shakespeare’s Blackfriars,” 2008
Presidential Scholarship Awards (financial support for research), UVU, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
Publications
Books and Editions
The Comedy of Errors, Textual Annotations and Glosses, The New Oxford Shakespeare, ed. Gary
Taylor, Terri Bourus, and John Jowett. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2016.
Pericles, Textual Annotations and Glosses, The New Oxford Shakespeare, ed. Gary Taylor, Terri
Bourus, and John Jowett. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2016.
Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation England: Co-edited With James
Mardock. Duquesne University Press, 2014.
Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries,
ed. With Kathryn M. Moncrief and Sarah Enloe. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
2013. 344 pages.
Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance, ed. with Kathryn
Moncrief. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2011. 248 pages.
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England, ed. with Kathryn Moncrief. Aldershot, England:
Ashgate, 2007. 244 pages.
The Reality of Breastfeeding: Reflections by Contemporary Women, ed., with Amy Benson Brown.
Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1998. 233 pages.
The Countess of Lincolnes Nurserie: A Critical Edition, Emory Women Writer’s Resource Project,
1999. http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html
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Articles
“Performing Catechism in Measure for Measure.” In Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion
in Post-Reformation England. Ed. James Mardock and Kathryn McPherson. Duquesne
University Press, 2014. 155-170.
“Seeing Ghosts: Hamlet and Original Practices.” With Fiona Harris-Ramsby. In
Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His
Contemporaries. Ed. Kathryn Moncrief, Kathryn McPherson, and Sarah Enlow, Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press, 2013. 135-146.
“A Moralist and a Mother: Maternal Authority in The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie.” CLIO: A Journal
of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 41:1 (2012), 31-52. “‘Shall I teach you to know?’: Intersections of Pedagogy, Performance and Gender.” Co-authored with
Kathryn Moncrief. In Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction and
Performance, ed. Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson. Aldershot:: Ashgate, 2011.
“The Absence of Eve in Elizabeth Herbert’s Catechism.” In Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern
England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance, ed. Kathryn Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson.
Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2011. 177-188.
“Home Schooling: The English Gentlewoman.” In Masculinities, Childhood, Violence: Attending to Early
Modern Women--and Men. Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium. Edited by Amy E. Leonard and
Karen L. Nelson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011.
“Embodied and Enacted: Performances of Maternity in Early Modern England.” Co-authored with
Kathryn Moncrief. In Performing Maternity in Early Modern England, edited by Kathryn
Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 1-13.
“Dramatizing Deliverance and Devotion: Churching in Early Modern England.” In Performing Maternity
in Early Modern England, (ed. Kathryn Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2007), 131-142.
“Sainted Sisterhood in Early Modern England.” In Sibling Relation and Gender in the Early Modern
World, ed. Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavneh. Aldershot:Ashgate, 2006. 182-194.
“ ‘I thought my all was given before’: Configuring Maternal Grief in Seventeenth-Century England.”
The Ben Jonson Journal, Volume 7 (Winter 2000), 421-443.
Current Research Projects
“ ‘Secrets of My Prison House’: Documenting Prison Shakespeare on Radio and in Film,” solicited article
for a forthcoming collection of essays, Documentary Shakespeare, ed. Dr. Jim Casey, Highpoint
University.
“Mary Wroth’s Melancholy: Prefiguring John Milton’s ‘Il Penseroso’” : investingates the connections
between Mary Wroth’s concepts of melancholy and solitude as expressed in her 1621 sonnets and those
expressed by John Milton’s 1645 poem, ‘Il Penseroso.’
Conference Presentations
“Pedagogy and the Performance of Learning”
Seminar Designer and Co-Leader, Shakespeare Association of America, April 2013
“ Seeing Ghosts: ‘The sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes’.” Staging Session. Sixth Blackfriars
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Conference, October 2011
“ ‘Let him learn to know’: Women and Catechism in Measure for Measure,” Seminar Contribution for
“Drama in/of the Reformation,” Shakespeare Association of America, April 2011
“ ‘Let him learn to know’: Catechism in Measure for Measure”
Panelist, Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, October 2009
“Stand Up for Shakespeare,” Workshop Contribution for “Presenting Shakespeare: Making Public
Sessions Work, ” Shakespeare Association of America, April 2009
“Refiguring Pregnancy in Early Modern England,” Panelist, “The Female Renaissance: Women of
Influence in Early Modern England , Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, March 2009,
Panel Organizer: Dr. Chris Laoutaris, University College, London
“Performing Pedagogy: Gender and Instruction in Early Modern England”
Seminar Designer and Co-Leader, Shakespeare Association of America, March 2008
“Home Schooling: The English Gentlewoman,” seminar co-leader, Attending to Early Modern Women
(and Men), November 2006
“The Absence of Eve in Elizabeth Herbert’s Catechism,” Panelist, “Producing Girls in
Early Modern England,” Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 2006.
Panel Organizer: Dr. Caroline Bicks, Boston College
“Deliverance and Devotion: Performing Femininity and the Chuching of Women”
Panelist and Panel Organizer, Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, England, April 2005
“Sisterhood and Motherhood in Early Modern England”
Invited Speaker, Sophie Kerr Lecture Series, Washington College, Maryland, April 2004
“Performing Maternity in Early Modern England”
Seminar Designer and Co-Leader, Shakespeare Association of America, April 2003
“Controlling the Birth Experience in Seventeenth-Century England”
Panelist and Panel Chair, Renaissance Society of American Annual Meeting, April 2002
“What We’ve Been Expecting: The Confluence of Maternity Manuals Then and Now”
American Studies Annual Faculty Conference, Utah Valley State College, October 2001
“Refiguring Maternity in Early Modern England”
Panel Chair and Commentator, North American Conference on British Studies, October 2000
“Women’s Lamentations in Seventeenth-Century England”
Panelist, Modern Language Association Convention, December 1998
Panel Organizer, Dr. Patricia Phillipy
Grants Written and Received
Grants for Engaged Learning (Shakespeare Life and Times Editoral Work, $10,000), UVU, 2014
Engaged Learning in the Liberal Arts (Student Research in London & Oxford, $3000), 2012
Grants for Engaged Learning (Grassroots Shakespeare Company, $9500), UVU, 2011
Community of Engaged Learners Grant (“Stand Up for Shakespeare,” $8000), UVU, 2009
Community of Engaged Learners Grant (Oxford Expedition, $5000), UVU, 2008
Community of Engaged Learners Grant (Math Rocks Workshop, $2800), UVU, 2007
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Direct Access to the Muslim World, Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program, 2005
Programming Grant for “Shaping the American West,” Utah Humanities Council, 2005
Merit Grant for “Shaping the American West,” UVSC Foundation, 2004
English Speaking Union Grant For British Study, Summer 1995
Folger Institute Grant, Folger Shakespeare Library, Spring 1995
Community Engagement and Undergraduate Research
“Curtain Theater Article,” The Map of Early Modern London. See http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/ and
http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/pedagogical_pilot_project.htm. A semester-long undergraduate research project
to research, write, and edit an entry on the theater used by Shakespeare’s playing company just prior to the
construction of the Globe in 1599.
Shakespeare Inside: The Tempest. An outreach program on Shakespearean text and performance designed
for incarcerated juveniles at the Utah Country Juvenile Justice Center, Spring 2011 and Spring 2013.
Utah High School Shakespeare Competition, Adjudicator, 2010-2013. Served as a volunteer judge
for middle- and high schoolstudent scenes at competition sponsored by Southern Utah University and the
Utah Shakespearean Festival.
Shakespeare Inside: Macbeth. An outreach program on Shakespearean text and performance designed
for incarcerated juveniles at the Utah Country Juvenile Justice Center, Spring 2010.
Grassroots Shakespeare, Resident Scholar, March 2009-present: advise, support, and participate in a
series of public, “original practices” Shakespeare workshops begun by two UVU students, Alex Ungerman
and Mark Oram. www.grassrootsshakespeare.com
Stand Up for Shakespeare: A Workshop for Teachers, March 5, 2009. A full-day professional
development event for current and pre-service public school teachers along the Wasatch Front. Keynote
speaker: Ralph Alan Cohen, American Shakespeare Center. Presenters: Michael Bahr, Director of
Education at the Utah Shakespeare Festival; Christopher Clark, UVU Theatre Department, and Kate
Moncrief of Washington College.
Selected Academic Service
Director, UVU Honors Program
Journal of the Wooden O Review Board
Faculty Convocation Committee, UVU
Screening Committee Chair, UVU English Department
Rentention, Tenure and Promotion Chair, UVU English Department
Phi Kappa Phi, Chapter 303 President and Past-President
National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Student Advisor, UVU
London Study Abroad Director, UVU
Interim Director, Honors Program, UVU
Assistant Vice-President for Academic Affairs, UVSC
Strategic Directions Advisory Committee Member, UVSC
Honors Task Force/Steering Member, UVSC
Global Engagement Taskforce Co-Chair, UVSC
Conference Chair, Shaping the American West, UVSC
Faculty Senator, Department of English/Literature, UVSC
Assistant Chair, Department of English/Literature, UVSC
Curriculum Chair, Department of English/Literature, UVSC
July 2012-present
2010-present
2012-present
Spring 2010
2009-2014
2007-2014
2003-2012
2012, 2008, 2004
Fall 2008
2004-2006
2004-2006
2004-present
2004-2006
2003-2005
2003-2004
2001- 2003
2001- 2004
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Professsional Affiliations
Renaissance Society of America
Shakespeare Association of America
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
The Honors Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Courses Taught
At Utah Valley University:
Senior Seminar (English 4950)
A capstone course focused on reflective thinking and professionalization for majors. Once every 2
years.
Early Modern Women Writers (English 486R: Topics in Literature)
A periodic, intensive, senior-level seminar on English women writers, 1550-1680. Once every 2-3
years.
Milton, (English 4640)
A seminar on Paradise Lost and other major works by John Milton. Every third semester.
Shakespeare, (English 463R)
A senior seminar on Shakespearean drama. Once or twice annually.
Great Women of Great Britain (English 373R)
A survey of influential British women writers from Elizabeth I to Virginia Woolf. Study abroad
only.
Stuart British Literature, 1603-1700, (English 3630)
A core course in literature and culture of 17th Century England. Every third semester.
British Literature, Beginnings to 1800, (English 2610)
An introductory survey for English majors on important British texts, authors, and genres. Once
every two years.
Shakespeare (English 2300/230H)
A thorough survey of Shakespeare’s drama, in standard, Honors, and experiential formats. Every
fourth semester, and on study abroad programs.
Ancient Legacies (Honors 2000)
A writing-intensive survey of epics in the Western tradition. Every fourth semester.
Introduction to College Writing (English 1010/101H)
A thorough introduction to collegiate writing skills. Every semester during non-administrative
semesters.
At Other Institutions Prior to 2000:
Poetry of the Seventeenth Century, Emory University (English 315)
An upper-division survey of major authors stressing critical methods in early modern studies
World Literature, Parts I and II, Georgia Perimeter College (English 203 and 204)
Comprehensive sophomore surveys of world literature with emphasis on historical context
Introduction to College Writing, (English 1010)
A writing course stressing rhetorical awareness and critical thinking.
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Introduction to Cultural Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology (English 1101)
Writing-intensive, computer-based study of theories and texts about identity and representation
Cultural Studies of Science and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology (English 1102)
Intermediate writing and research course based on Early Modern exploration
Professional References
Dean David P. Yells., Utah Valley University, (801) 863-7435, [email protected]
Professor Ralph Alan Cohen, Mary Baldwin College, (540) 887-7251, [email protected]
Professor Kathryn M. Moncrief, Washington College, (410) 778-7879; [email protected]
Professor James Mardock, University of Nevada, Reno, (775) 682-6372, [email protected]
Professor Janelle Jenstad, University of Victoria, (250) 721-7245, [email protected]