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Graphic Novel Reporter


PRIMITIVE ARCHER MAGAZINE
Hunting Through
Medieval Literature

 
INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES
Peter Pan

HORSE & RIDER MAGAZINE
A Whisper and a Prayer

CONFERENCE PAPER
The Masculine Mind
of Shakespeare's Women

COURSE CURRICULUM ARTICLE
Christine de Pizan

CONFERENCE PAPER
Nature to the Rescue in the
Hero(ine)'s Journey

CONFERENCE PAPER
Hostages in the Rose Garden

SEMINAR TOPIC
Murder Will Out

ABOUT Doré Ripley

I have always loved historical fiction or books with an archaeological twist, sporting titles like Unsolved Mysteries of the Past or Historical Whodunits. So when I ran across the true life mystery surrounding the origins of Shakespeare's celebrated Globe theater it seemed a natural fit for a novel that explores how a woman could work within the masculine theater and society that produced Shakespeare.  I'm currently shopping The Player's Apprentice.

The climate where I grew up—the foggy hilltop corridor between the Pacific Coast and San Francisco Bay—created a need for sunny weekend trips. Some of the dreamy destinations an easy road trip from South City are the redwood trees and beaches of Santa Cruz, the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains, and Sonoma County's wine country.  In my twenties, I thought I'd give country living a try and spent seventeen years in Mendocino County, but returned to the Bay Area when my husband and I found a home that provided the best of both worlds on the morning side of Mt. Diablo.

After leaving the corporate world, I began a "career" as a returning student and started dabbling in the academic genre--a genre filled with nominalizations and long sentences requiring frequent dips into the Oxford English dictionary. But what I really wanted from graduate school was something my parents couldn't give me—a reading list, a reading list that led to William Shakespeare.   I eventually earned a Master's Degree in English and still write conference papers, delivering papers on subjects ranging from fairy tales to Renaissance literature. I enjoy writing for a wide variety of audiences including popular magazines, scholarly journals, and textbooks.

As a lecturer at California State University, East Bay and adjunct professor at Diablo Valley College, I teach critical reading and writing to a culturally diverse mix of college freshmen placed in a variety of thematic clusters that focus on literature and nonfiction texts.  If you're interested in some reading lists for the classroom and other general interests, including graphic novels and Shakespeare and his times, visit my MySpace page at www.myspace.com/read_think_write.

I enjoy writing, reading, riding, and travel, and currently live in Clayton, California, with my husband, Geoffrey, our two horses, two dogs, and five barn cats that are too spoiled to do their job.