Dr. Kristin M.S. Bezio

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CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

June 2011 Successful defense of dissertation for the completion of a Ph.D. in English

Literature, Boston University

Field of Concentration: English Renaissance, with an emphasis on Early Modern

Drama.

Advisors: Professors James R. Siemon, William C. Carroll.

2003 M.A. in English Literature, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

2002 B.A. with Honors in English Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Field of Concentration: Modernist Women?s Poetry.

DISSERTATION

King and Corpus: Performance and Monarchy in Early Modern Drama

Readers: James R. Siemon, William C. Carroll

AWARDS & HONORS

2010 Allen D. Breck Award, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.

2005-2010 Five-Time Travel Grant Recipient, Department of English, Boston University

2006 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Department of English, Boston University.

2005 Gilman Prize for best graduate essay in Renaissance drama, Department of

English, Boston University.

2002-2003 Academic Scholarship and Stipend for the completion of the M.A. degree.

2001-2002 Trewartha Honors Thesis Grant, College of Letters and Science, University of

Wisconsin-Madison.

2001 Vivian Mowry Scholarship, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-

Madison.

2000 Mary Brabyn Wackman Scholarship, Department of English, University of

Wisconsin-Madison.

PUBLICATIONS

August 2010 Politics and Play: The National Stage and the Player King in Shakespeare?s

Henry V and Macbeth. Wooden O Symposium, Rocky Mountain Medieval and

Renaissance Association Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah.

May 2009 The Kingly Bastard: Royalty, Blood, and Performance in Shakespeare?s King

John. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan

University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

February 2009 Why Cordelia Has to Die: The Pattern of Sexual Betrayal and Armored Women

in Shakespeare?s Drama. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference.

Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

May 2008 Am I a king and must be overruled : Marlowe?s Medieval King Edward II and

Divine Right. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan

University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

April 2008 The Virtuous Tyrant?: Sovereignty and Saintliness in Shakespeare?s Henry

VI.

Renaissance Society of America national conference, Chicago, Illinois.

May 2007 Kingly Sacrifice: Monarchy, Performance, and Victimization in Shakespeare?s

Richard II. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan

University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

February 2007 Mirror of Machiavels: Shakespeare?s Performative Kings Henry V and Richard

III. Performing (In)Visibility Interdisciplinary Conference. University of

Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

November 2006 Locked up in thy blood?: Physical violence and blood-contagion in

Beaumont & Fletcher?s The Maid s Tragedy. Ohio Shakespeare Conference.

Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio.

March 2006 To Kill a King: Revising Hamlet as Macbeth. Pacific Northwest Renaissance

Society/Renaissance Society of America conference, San Francisco, California

.

March 2006Staging The Maid s Tragedy. Willing Suspension Productions Alumni

Colloquium. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

COURSES TAUGHT

2011-PresentAssistant Professor of Leadership Studies, Jepson School of Leadership

Studies,

University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia.

LDST 101-05 Leadership in the Humanities Fall 2011

LDST 390-02 Leadership on Stage and Screen Fall 2011

Directed Study: Senior Thesis Fall 2011

2008-2011 Graduate Writing Fellow, Writing Program, Boston University. Courses taught:

WR100 Revisiting Shakespeare?s Drama Fall 2008 & 2009

WR150 Revisiting Shakespeare?s Drama Spring 2009 & 2010

WR100 The Bard in the Digital Age Fall 2010

WR150 The Bard in the Digital Age Spring 2011

2003-2008Teaching Fellow, English Department, Boston University

.

Stand-alone courses:

WR100 Jewish and Christian Myths in LiteratureFall 2004

WR150Jewish and Christian Myths in LiteratureSpring 2005

EN143 Literary Types: Drama Fall 2005, Spring 2006 & 2008

EN164 Reading Shakespeare II Spring 2007

EN120 Introductory Writing (for English Majors):

Defining Evil Through Literature Fall 2007

Courses as a teaching assistant:

EN175 Literature and the Art of Film Fall 2003

EN141 Literary Types: Fiction Spring 2004

EN363 Shakespeare I Fall 2006

TEACHING INTERESTS

Sixteenth- & Seventeenth-Century Literature including Shakespeare and contemporaries,

Drama

and Performance, Women?s Literature, Comparative Literature, Directing, Acting,

Rhetoric and Composition, New Media, Leadership Studies

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2011-Present Peer review reader for Quidditas

2011-2013Executive Board Member, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance

Association

2010-2011Fellow, Educational Resource Center Writing Center, Boston University

.

2009-2011 Experimental use of Digication software under the direction of the Writing

Program and university Provost?s office at Boston University2009-2011Tutor, College of Arts and Sciences Writing Center, Boston University.

2009-2011 Editorial board Member, WR, the journal of student writing for the College of

Arts and Sciences Writing Program, Boston University.

2008-2009Pilot instructor, Portfolio teaching at the College of Arts and Sciences

Writing

Program, Boston University.

1999-2002Teacher, Madison Creative Arts Program (Madison, Wisconsin). Taught theater in

a production setting to both acting and technical students aged 6-18, including

students with learning and developmental disabilities.

THEATER2010-Present Board of Directors, The Unorthodox Arts Foundation. The Unorthodox Arts

Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation created to support and cultivate

unconventional art and performance of all kinds.

2007-2011 Contracted staff: scenic construction, equipment strike, lighting. Actors?

Shakespeare Project, Boston, Massachusetts.

Productions: Macbeth, Henry V, The Tempest, King John, The Merchant

of Venice, The Duchess of Malfi, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing,

The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night s Dream, Othello, 1& 2

Henry IV

2005-2011Director, Technical Director, Stage Manager and Lighting Designer, Willing

Suspension Productions, Boston University (specializing in rarely performed

early modern English drama).

Productions: Ben Jonson?s Bartholomew Fair, Thomas Middleton &

William Rowley?s The Changeling, John Marston?s The Dutch Courtesan,

Thomas Middleton?s A Mad Word My Masters, Christopher Marlowe?s

Edward II, Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher?s The Maid s Tragedy.

2010Volunteer Technical Staff. Trapeze School of New York Beantown October 29,

2010 Staff Show Circus of the Living Dead.

1999-2002Theatrical Technician, Stage Manager, Director, Resident Lighting Designer and

Master Electrician, Assistant Scenic Designer and Artist, Makeup Designer and

Assistant, Costume Assistant, Prop Master, and Assistant Director. Madison

Creative Arts Program, Madison, Wisconsin. ETC, Strand, ColorScroller, and

MainStage equipment; experience with two-scene presets and spotlights.

Performance included small, large, and indoor and outdoor venues. Musical

theatre, dance, Shakespeare, and contemporary drama.

2001-2002Lighting Consultant, Oakwood Village Retirement Community, Madison,

Wisconsin.

2001-2002Lighting Consultant, Oakwood Chamber Players, Madison, Wisconsin

.

2001Lighting Designer and Technician, Stage Manager. Cycropia Aerial Dance,

Madison, Wisconsin

Stage Manager and Lighting Designer. A String of Pearls, University of

Wisconsin-Madison

Lighting Technician, IO and HER and the Trouble with HIM, University of

Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute. Madison Wisconsin

.

Speaker and Lighting Technician, University of Wisconsin-Madison Summer

Youth Program. Madison, Wisconsin.

2000Sound Board Operator. University Theatre production of A Raisin in the Sun at

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, Wisconsin.

1998 Stage and Lighting Crew. Madison Savoyards production of A Dickens of a

Christmas, Madison, Wisconsin.

OTHER EMPLOYMENT

2010-2011Research Assistant to Professor Joseph Bizup, Assistant Dean and Director of

the

College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University

2004-2010Head Guide at King?s Chapel (non-profit), Boston, Massachusetts. Educational

and promotional tours of King?s Chapel (Freedom Trail Foundation), historical

reenactments, research work, and scheduling.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association

Renaissance Society of America

Shakespeare Association of America

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association

International Medieval Institute

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