2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Digital Studies in Early Modern Drama and Digital Outreach
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20K00449
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
DABBS T.W. 青山学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (00263640)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Shakespeare / Global outreach / Digital Humanities / Theatre history / Early Modern Theatre / Folger Shakespeare / Drama / St Paul's London |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I continued a series of open online access talks with top scholars in Japan and across the globe. The program is entitled 'Speaking of Shakespeare.' I conducted 18 meetings in 2021 that were recorded and uploaded to YouTube and major podcast services, including Apple, Spotify, and Google podcasts. The list of speakers included major scholars and educators, including representatives who were various nationalities. On YouTube alone the talks received roughly 13,000 views over the past year and garnered roughly 1,400 hours of watch time in Japan and worldwide. Two articles, delayed by the pandemic, will be published by the January 31st, 2023. One article focuses on working spaces in drama during Shakespeare's time. The other article focuses on popular adaptations of Shakespeare in Japan on stage and in manga and anime. Two more articles are now under review. Also, I continue to review digital research as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Japanese Association for the Digital Humanities.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Although the progress of the series of online recorded talks is going better than planned, the publication of two accepted articles was delayed (according to the editors) by the pandemic. The old timeline for publication was to be by January of 2022. The new timeline is January of 2023 for both articles. This project originally planned to invite Japanese and international scholars to campus for two and perhaps three symposia. This plan of course was made impossible by the pandemic, but fortunately I was allowed to pivot to the current course of developing an online speakers series that has been extremely successful in terms of national and global outreach.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
This current year (FY 2022)I have already uploaded an online research talk with Edward Wilson-Lee, a major author in Shakespeare and early modern studies at the University of Cambridge. I have schedule Alex Ryrie, a major scholar in Reformation studies (including Shakespeare), for an online talk and also for an online plenary session that will be open to the public. I have under peer review two more articles on Shakespeare-related subjects, one to a major journal and the other to an edition that will focus on Shakespeare in Japan. I continue to work on a book-length project with the working title: 'God, Space, and Shakespeare.'
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| Causes of Carryover |
In FY2022, I will complete an article for an edition edited by Sarah Olive of Bangor University and entitled 'Hot Shakespeare, Cool Japan.' I will also participate in the International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford, U.K. as an invited delegate. In August I also plan to visit several locations in the provinces of Aragon and Catalonia in Spain to study key locations referenced in early modern drama. I will continue the Speaking of Shakespeare digital series with guest talks from at least 12 speakers.
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| Remarks |
The five research meetings selected are from list of 18 name scholars who contributed to the Speaking of Shakespeare series (SoS). These talks are freely available online (open access).
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