Regular Faculty Member
Dr. Janelle Jenstad
Janelle Jenstad has taught at Queen's University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and, since 2003, the University of Victoria. Janelle lectures regularly to public audiences on Shakespeare in Performance. She is also the general editor and coordinator of The Map of Early Modern Literary London, a SSHRC-funded project. In Dec. 2011, she was appointed Assistant Coordinating Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions.
Current Research Interests: Usury on the early modern stage; Shakespeare in performance; editing Shakespeare; London Studies; digital humanities and encoding.
Teaching and Supervisory Areas: Shakespeare; Renaissance Drama; Adaptations of Shakespeare; London Studies; Bibliography and Book History.
Professional Coaching: A certified MBTI Practitioner, Janelle offers workshops on learning and teaching styles. She is also interested in working with high school teachers on approaches to teaching Shakespeare.
Selected Faculty Publications
"Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London." New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place. New York: Routledge, 2011.
"Smock Secrets: Birth and Women's Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage." Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ed. Katherine Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 87-99.
"Text and Voice," with Peter Lichtenfels and Lynne Magnusson. Shakespeare, Language and the Stage. The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies. Ed. Lynette Hunter and Peter Lichtenfels. London: Arden, 2005. 10-37.
"Paper, Linen, Sheets: Dinesen's 'The Blank Page' and Desdemona's Handkerchief." Approaches to Teaching Othello. Ed. Peter Erickson and Maurice Hunt. New York: Modern Language Association, 2005. 194-201.
Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Festival Theatre, Stratford Festival of Canada, 2004). Shakespeare Bulletin 23.1 (2005): 153-55.
"Lying-in like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and Chaste Maid in Cheapside." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 373-403.
"Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths' Company and the Spectacle of Punishment." Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed. Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost, with afterwords by Keith Wrightson and Anthony Grafton. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191-217.
"Queens, Queans, and Shrews: A Canadian's Overview of the 2003 Stratford, Ontario, Festival." Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 22.1 (2004): 51-55.
"Extremes of Fortune." Programme Notes for Timon of Athens (dir. Stephen Ouimette), Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford Festival of Canada, 2004.
"Chaste, Silent, and Obedient?" Programme Notes for The Taming of the Shrew (dir. Miles Potter), Festival Theatre, Stratford Festival of Canada, 2003.
Review of Richard III (Avon Theatre, Stratford Festival of Canada, 2002). Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 21.2 (2003): 53-54.
"The Stratford, Ontario, Festival 2002: A Canadian's Overview." Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 21.2 (2003): 48-50.
Review of Henry VI: Revenge in France and Henry VI: Revolt in England (Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford Festival of Canada, 2002). Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 21.2 (2003): 52-53.
"The Burse and the Merchant's Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood's 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody." Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C. E. McGee and A. L. Magnusson. Toronto: P. D. Meany, 2002. 181-202.
"'The City Cannot Hold You': Social Conversion in the Goldsmith's Shop." Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 2:1-25. URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/08-2/jensgold.html.
"An Interview with Jeannette Lambermont." Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 20.2 (2002): 38-41.
"The Stratford, Ontario, Festival 2001: A Canadian's Overview." hakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 20.2 (2002): 30-31.
"The Tragical Comedy of Romeo and Juliet." Programme Notes for Romeo and Juliet, Festival Theatre, Stratford Festival of Canada, 2002.
"ACCUTE and the Professional Skills Graduate Course." ACCUTE Newsletter, June 2002. 7-8.
"Debt in Venice." Programme Notes for The Merchant of Venice, Festival Theatre, Stratford Festival, 2001.
"'The Gouldesmythes Storehowse': Early Evidence for Specialisation." The Silver Society Journal 10 (1998): 40-43.