2A -- Thursday, September 8, 2011 4 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom .+. -- l ..V ........1 . ... 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 wwwmichigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG ZACH YANCER Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 seeinberg@michigandaiy.com zyancer@michigandailycom A spirited Shakespearian What did you do before coming to the University? I grew up in Denver, Colorado. Then I went to college at Princeton, and then I spent a year in France studying Renais- sance literature. ThenI went to Marvard where Idid my masters and my Ph.D. What brought you to Michigan? Icame to teach in the English department because of the strength of the department. There's a great Renaissance faculty here, there's a wonderful creative writing program - the kinds of interests that are hoth academic and creative - and I felt like this would be a great place for me. It was a very easy decision. What inspired you to become an English pro- fessor? I felt like I was good at reading books, and I felt I was pretty good at writ- ing, and I didn't know if I was good at anything else other than those two things. What courses do you currently teach? I'm teaching acourse on Shakespeare's early plays, which is a lecture course, and I'm teaching an intro- duction to poetry course which is a small, 200-level What's your favorite Shakespeare play and why? I don't have one, but I'm very fond of "Twelfth Night." I love the brother- sister relationship in that play, and I also like how. alienating the type of humor is. It's sort of acom- bination about what I love about Shakespeare, that he writes certain things that we immediately iden- tify with - in this case, the strong bond between a brother and a sister - and then he does other things that are very estranging. What do you think sets you apart from other professors in the department? I think, that we're all different from each other by virtue of our person- alities. We're a collection of a very diverse group of thinkers. I'm probably less mature than a lot of my colleagues. Probably what drives me to Shakespeare is the kind of silliness of some of the plays and the bawdy humor, which I always enjoy. - BETHANYBIRON Newsroom 734-418-4115 srI.3 Corretions cectislie@michigandaily.com ArtsSectian arts@michigandaily.com, SporslSetin sports@michigasdaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@m~ichigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF NitkhSpar ManaeingtEdinor Nitole Aber Msnaging News tditor SNsIO EWnS EITRStasny Beirn, Dylan News Tips news,@michigandaily.com Leters to he Edit tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Pate opision@michigasdaily.com Photography Setion photo@michigandaily.com tlassified Sales classified@michigandailyecom Finance finance@michigandaily.com sickssar@michigasdaily.com aber@michigandaily.com Cinti, Caiinutn,,Joseh Liherman, English Praf. 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