1st Edition
Strategic Shakespeare Transformative Leadership for the Future of Higher Education
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Strategic Shakespeare
Act 1: Identity and Power
1. The “power to hurt and will do none”: Shakespearean Lessons in Power and Administrative Leadership
Vanessa Corredera
2. White Shakespeare in Asian American Literature: Unpacking Baggage for Higher Education Leadership
Cassie M. Miura
3. Bardolatry and leadership: using Shakespeare for greater good
Marcela Kostihova
Act 2: Inclusion and History
4. Defining Inclusion Then and Now: Improving upon Early Modern Dramatic Communities
Mark Beatrice Kaethler
5. Poets and Madmen: Translating Humanities Training into Inclusive Leadership
Kate Myers
6. Preserving Institutional Histories / Promoting Institutional Change
Ariane M. Balizet
7. Using Power for Illumination: Advancement Paths for Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Marianne Montgomery
Act 3: Collaboration, Empathy, and Interdisciplinarity
8. Shakespeare, Empathy, and the Call to Restorative Leadership
Catherine E. Thomas
9. Interrogating an Icon, Adaptation, and Performance: Humanities-Centered Leadership in the Core Curriculum
Sara Morrison
10. Salient History: Early Modern Interdisciplinarity and University Honors
Allison Machlis Meyer
11. Shakespeare and the Benefits of Interdisciplinary Leadership
Erik DeCicco and Sarah E. Parker
12. Shakespeare, Leadership, and the Disciplinary Divide
Natalie K. Eschenbaum
Act 4: COVID, AI, and Unprecedented Challenges
13. The Value of Airy Nothing
Gregory M. Schnitzspahn
14. If Only, Shakespeare: Ambiguity and Effective, Ethical Leadership
Thomas J. Moretti
15. Worldmaking and Leading from the Middle: Collaborative Leadership in Higher Education
Jessica C. Murphy
Act 5: Advocacy, Politics, and The Future
16. Ambiguity and “Two-sideism” in the Marketplace of Ideas
Deborah Uman
17. Building Relationships and Sustaining Hope Through Humanities Advocacy
Jennifer Feather
18. Creating Cognitive Ecologies: Shakespeare's Collaborative Storytelling and Climate Resilience
Linda Shenk
Epilogue
Index
Biography
Ariane M. Balizet is a Professor of English and Associate Dean of Faculty and Engagement in the AddRan College of Liberal Arts at Texas Christian University, USA. She is the author of Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies (2020) and Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage (2014).
Natalie K. Eschenbaum is a Professor of English and Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma, USA. Her publications include Disgust in Early Modern English Literature (co-edited with Barbara Correll; 2016).
Marcela Kostihová is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts in the School of Education and Leadership and School of Business, and Professor of English at Hamline University, USA. She is author of Shakespeare in Transition: Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic (2010) and How to Analyze the Works of Stephenie Meyer (2011).
