2022 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 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Shakespeare / Digital Humanities / Global adaptation / Memory studies / Early Modern Drama / Reformation and Religion / Theatre History / Gender and Race Theory |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In FY2022, I was able to produce 17 more interviews for the "Speaking of Shakespeare" podcast (available on YouTube) that was started under this grant in FY2020. This year the series included talks with prominent scholars. These interviews are distributed widely to colleagues and specialists in Japan and internationally. This series now totals 42 interviews. Along with roughly 300 podcast downloads a month, the YouTube channel has roughly subscribers and receives an average of over 1,000 visits per month with over 100 hours of watch time.
I published three articles, two refereed. I also presented for a special seminar at the International Shakespeare Conference.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Due to the Covid pandemic, I had to shift the original objective of this project from hosting invited in-person talks and workshops on campus to interviewing Japanese and international scholars on Zoom. This year I will be able to do both in-person and online talks with major scholars in Japan and internationally. I feel that this project, though altered by the pandemic, is now progressing in its new form more smoothly than anticipated.
Though articles that I have written in relation to this project have been slow to see publication, I currently expect to see two and perhaps three more refereed articles in print in FY2023.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In FY 2023, I will host at least three speakers for in-person talks on campus: Christopher Highley of the Ohio State University (Ph.D. Stanford), Stephen Witteck of Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D. McGill), and Hirohisa Igarashi of Toyo University (Ph.D. Hiroshima University). I will also host more speakers for the 'Speaking of Shakespeare' series, including Emma Smith of Oxford and Darren Freebury-Jones of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. It is still too early to predict exactly how many speakers will be invited at this point, but the number should total over 15 scholars.
At least two articles will appear in FY2023, one on Shakespeare's relationship with the Elizabethan Office of the Revels and the other on current Japanese alternative productions of Shakespeare in Japan. I wish to move forward on the next project to examine the history of the Christopher Columbus monument in Barcelona as a site of memory in the context of competing views about whether it should or should not be taken down.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The incurring amount will be used for the editing of video interviews, the on-site recording of in-person talks, payment for part-time workers, and research travel. The reason for using these funds is to gain support for digital projects in development and also to educate the general public on the open access online resources available specifically in early modern studies and more broadly in the humanities.
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[Journal Article] Playing with Shakespeare in Japan2022
Author(s)
Thomas Dabbs , Kyoko Matsuyama , Rena Endo
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Journal Title
Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adpatation in the 21st Century
Volume: Part of collection (book)
Pages: 125-141
DOI
Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
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