Knowledge Designers

What turns a Shakespeare scholar into a digital entrepreneur? Katherine Rowe will talk about the opportunities and challenges that led two academics to design an application for social reading: Shakespeare's The Tempest for iPad, published by Luminary Digital Media. This initiative illuminates larger transformations of reading, writing, teaching, and learning that so many of us are experiencing today.
Speaker Biography: Katherine Rowe is professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of "Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern" and co-author of "New Wave Shakespeare on Screen." She writes about media history (with an emphasis on performance media), Renaissance cultural history, adaptation as a cultural process, and the digital humanities. She has served on the editorial board of the Shakespeare Quarterly and is a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is also co-founder of Luminary Digital Media (luminary.co), publisher of the Luminary Folger Shakespeare Editions, available in the Apple Store.
Speaker Biography: Abby Yochelson is the English and American Literature reference specialist in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Library of Congress.
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