Faculty Notes News & Notables for Niels Herold
Promotion & Pilgrimages !
Faculty Notes News & Notables for Niels Herold
This year Niels Herold was recommended for promotion to the rank of Professor by unanimous vote of the FRPC , and the Board of Trustees subsequently approved the promotion in recognition of Herold ' s numerous achievements in teaching , research , and service .
This past summer Herold made the pilgrimage to Stratford UK for the 400 death centenary celebrations of Shakespeare at the World Shakespeare Congress , where he presented a paper on a prison production of Pericles .
In March of this year , he presented an essay he is co-authoring with an inmate who has himself published in Shakespeare Survey ( one of the premier academic journals in the field ) as well as won a Pen Award for his non-fiction and poetry .
In June , Herold will be attending the second bi-annual Stratford Theater Conference , this time upon a smaller river much closer to home ( Ontario ), where he will be presenting a paper entitled " Transgression and Transformation in the Arts ," in a panel he has co-organized with Curt Tofteland , founding producer and artistic director of the Shakespeare Behind Bars programs .
On May 8 , Herold attended a performance by the Shakespeare Behind Bars company in La Grange , Kentucky , with a student , Michael Unger , who won a Dean ' s Choice grant to accompany Herold on this trip , interview inmate actors , and write up an essay about his experiences " inside " for The Oakland Journal . Herold reported , “ I have no doubt it will be a terrific essay because Michael , who also won the Holzbock this year , is a terrific intellect and writer ! We were both fortunate to have dinner after the show with the brilliant Shakespearean actor , Ron Brown , whose thespian virtuosity Herold has written about in his book , Prison Shakespeare and the Purpose of Playing . Ron is the same amazingly articulate person I found him to be when he belonged to the company--now , having rejoined us outside , just a bit more calm !"
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