ABOUT Doré Ripley
Doré Ripley was born in Mill Valley, California and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a graduate of California State University in Hayward where she also earned a Master's Degree in English literature. She is currently a lecturer at California State University, East Bay.
Even as a child, Doré was attracted to historical fiction and books with titles like Unsolved Mysteries of the Past and Historical Whodunits, so when she ran across the true life mystery surrounding the origins of Shakespeare's celebrated Globe theater it seemed a natural fit for a novel. It also seemed a way to explore how a woman could work within the masculine society that produced Shakespeare.
After leaving the corporate world, Doré 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. Doré writes everyday, but now the emphasis is historical fiction.
So what does college offer a returning student? What Doré really wanted from graduate school was something her parents couldn't, or wouldn't, give her—a reading list. A reading list that led to this old white guy named William Shakespeare. As a lecturer, Doré teaches critical reading and writing to freshmen college students in a variety of clusters and from a wide-range of cultural backgounds. If you're interested in some different reading lists, including one on Shakespeare and his times, visit Doré's MySpace page at www.myspace.com/read_think_write.
Doré enjoys writing, riding, and travel, and currently lives in Clayton, California, with her husband, Geoffrey, their three horses, two dogs, and five spoiled rotten cats.
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Articles in Magazines (non-refereed)
"Hunting Through Medieval Literature," in Primitive Archer.
"A Whisper and A Prayer," in Horse & Rider.
Articles in Refereed Academic Journals
"The Broken Mirror: A Freudian Slip into a Hellenistic Gynoculture," in Interdisciplinary Humanities.
Articles in Course Curriculum
"Christine de Pizan: An Illuminated Voice," From Scroll to Screen. Prof. Carol Braun Pasternack, University of California Santa Barbara.
PAPERS AND PANELS
"Hostages in the Rose Garden: Feminine Neurosis in La Belle et la Bête." Transgressions/Transformation, Dissonance/Harmony. National Association for Humanities Education Conference, San Francisco.
"Interior Disguises: The Masculine Intellect of Courtly Women in Shakespeare's Romances." On the Borders of Identity: Imitation and Disguise in Early Modern Drama. Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
"The Victorian Mirror: The Psychoanalytic Implications of Arthur Rackham's illustrations for J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan." The Future of Interdisciplinary Studies: Reflections of Consciousness through Crossing Boundaries of Otherness. NEXA Conference at San Francisco State University.
Chair of session, "Play is the Thing: Teaching Creative Writing through an Interdisciplinary Approach." National Association for the Humanities Education Conference, Richmond, Virginia.
"The Broken Mirror: A Freudian Slip into a Hellenistic Victorian Gynoculture." National Association for the Humanities Education Conference, Richmond, Virginia.
ON-AIR EXPERIENCE
Doré was radio on-air talent for home improvement shows, such as "On the House." Television experience includes an appearance on the groundbreaking "Home and Family" television series-a home show that spawned the HGTV network.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
California Writer's
Club, Mt. Diablo Branch, California
Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA)
Historical Novel Society
Modern
Language Association
Renaissance Society of America
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
South-Central Renaissance Conference
