Current activities

Item 1: The Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopedia
I am about halfway through the draft stage of an article on Shakespeare comics and manga for this encyclopedia, which will come out in two volumes and which will have a huge online component. From what I understand, the latter bit will be expansive and constantly updated (eventually it will become much bigger than the print version), and it will serve as a starting point for discussions for years to come. Understandably, I am a bit apprehensive about the whole thing, because people are bound to disagree with my conclusions, but I am mostly very glad that I've gotten this opportunity at such an early stage of my work. Also, the research for the article has unearthed a number of interesting things that will go into the thesis work. There are certainly more Shakespeare comics than I had imagined!

Item 2: The Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network
I will present a paper for the annual symposium - but I have not started writing it yet. I did submit an abstract for it a few weeks ago, but I can't quite remember what I claimed I'd write about. It will come back to me at some stage, I suppose.

Item 3: Shakespeare Configured
Deja vu: I will present a paper for the annual symposium, etc. There is plenty of time still, isn't there?

See the links on the right hand side for more info about these symposia.

Item 4: The dissertation.
I hope to have (at least) 150 pages by the end of the year. That way I will be halfway through the number of pages I've planned to end up on in a third of the time I have available (quantitatively speaking - naturally there will be revision).

Item 5: Must update blog.