Laren poole biography of william shakespeare
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About Walter J. Schenck
Between the years 2018 through 2020, after he retired, Walter Schenck has achieved: 23 Genius Ratings for Creativity plus an additional 11 Exceptional Ratings for Creativity for a variety of his publications. He also achieved 8 perfect 100% scores for his books.
Walter Schenck is a highly respected, award winning author in existential literature as well as recasting religious lessons into brilliant epic novels. Walter is an award-winning poet, award-winning biographer, award-winning science-fiction writer, award-winning novella writer, award-winning researcher, and award-winning playwright. His novels and writing style have been compared to Herman Hesse, James A. Michener, and Walter Wangerin while his narrative poems has been compared to Charles Whitman. For his brilliant existential novel using the Vietnam War as a backdrop, Walter Schenck achieved "Feature Author" status in Publisher's Weekly as well as outstanding critical acclaim in Kirk
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New named professorships
Two faculty members in the University of Delaware’s Department of English have been appointed to named professorships in recognition of their leading scholarship and teaching.
Kristen Poole has been named the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of English Renaissance Literature, and Melissa Ianetta will hold the Unidel Andrew B. Kirkpatrick Jr. Chair of Writing and Rhetoric. Both appointments are effective Sept. 1.
Melissa Ianetta
Ianetta has directed the University Writing Centers since 2005 and led the Department of English composition program from 2005-14.
Her research focuses on writing studies, with a specialization in research methods and undergraduate research. As a teacher, she has focused on writing and pedagogy by offering undergraduate classes in first year writing and peer tutor pedagogy and graduate classes in empirical research methods and writing program administration.
Ianetta is the author, with Lauren Fitzgerald of Yeshiva Universit
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Kristen Poole
Biography
Kristen Poole’s intellectual interests range widely across the early modern period (the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). She fryst vatten particularly interested in the history of religion/theology, the history of science, and the intersection of the two. She also enjoys thinking about the history of history itself, and how people past and present have conceptualized time and historical movement. She explores these ideas through lots of different early modern texts—the plays and poetry of well-known authors like Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton, and kavaj, of course, but also lesser-known pamphleteers, theologians, and natural philosophers.
She has explored these varied interests in her academic publications. Most recently, she has written Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination: Seventeenth-Century Literature, Science, and Religion in His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust(Oxford University Press, 2025).
She fryst vatten also the author Radical Religion from