Kim Keeline, Associate General Editor

Kim Keeline has been a board member and publicity chair of the San Diego Shakespeare Society for the past two years. She organizes bimonthly “Speaking of Shakespeare” lectures and assists in the Celebrity Sonnets program and the annual Student Festival.  She has found working on email newsletters, social media, and event projects an exciting challenge.

She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Southern California. Her dissertation was titled “Writing Work: Representations of Working Women in Early Modern London.” The project focused on the male voices of popular literature (including John Skelton, Thomas Deloney, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and Thomas Dekker), when viewing women in artisan, retail and service situations, the most common forms of women’s urban work, in order to see how women’s identities are based on sexual reputations, which play out in association with issues of credit, the gaze, spectacle, theatricality, and movements across the city.

Kim spent 15 years teaching at community colleges and universities, particularly working in the composition classes for undergraduates.  At USC she was a course coordinator and instructional coordinator, planning the program and mentoring new teachers through co-teaching 2-week training session at the start of the year and a semester-long 500-level course.

Her conference list includes multiple presentations to the Popular Culture Association (where she was area chair for the Renaissance Popular Culture area for the national conference for three years), a 2008 presentation on Mistress Quickly to the PAMLA, a 2007 presentation on Thomas Deloney’s weaving women to the PAMLA conference, and a 2002 presentation on Lord Mayor’s Shows at the Renaissance Society of American and Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.   She has always found conference presentations an exciting way to meet colleagues since her first presentation at a major conference in 1994 when she spoke on poet Amelia Lanyer to the Renaissance Conference of Southern California’s Southwest Regional Renaissance Conference at the Huntington Library.

While studying for her M.A. at Washington State University she was pleased to co-organize the English Department’s first graduate-student organized conference with “New Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium” in 1994.  Since then she has gone on to organize a number of events, including several graduate student conferences at USC and a fan convention celebrating a fictional boy inventor for the 100th anniversary of the Tom Swift series of books.

Besides a love of Shakespeare, her other interests include book collecting, murder mysteries (she is writing her first novel), and steam trains (she is an engineer on a 1907 Baldwin steam locomotive twice a month).

After earning her Ph.D., she found work outside her field for a time, mostly using her computer skills for web design, desktop publishing, and publicity. She is currently seeking new employment.