BA Hons and MA (University of Birmingham), PGCE (University of London)

Part-time lecturer. (Course Director and Lecturer, BA Humanities 2003 - September 2011).


Address: Anglia Ruskin University - University Center, College of West Anglia, Tennyson Avenue, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 2QW

Email: ksmith@col-westanglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 01553 815245


Keverne teaches on the BA Humanities programmes, (comprising BA History / English, History/Sociology and Sociology / English), at the University Centre based on the College of West Anglia campus in King's Lynn. He teaches on the 'Shakespeare and his Contemporaries,' 'Modernism and the City,' 'History Special Subject,' and 'Undergraduate Major Project: Dissertation' modules.

Keverne's main research interests are in drama, grief and education, especially in the plays of Shakespeare's period. He has delivered conference papers, most recently at the 'Shakespeare and Early Modern Emotion' Conference at the University of Hull in June 2011; his paper was entitled, 'Loss of a Child: Early Modern Perspectives,' and dealt with the evidence that parental grief was much stronger in the Early Modern Period than historians such as Stone allowed. He has written articles on drama and on grief, most recently ' "Almost the Copy of My Child That's Dead": Shakespeare and the loss of Hamlet,' published in volume 64, issue 1 of Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, and 'To Sing or Say: Dirges, Cymbeline and the Reformers,' published in the Shakespeare Newsletter, Fall 2011 issue. In spring 2011 he published a book, Shakespeare and Son: A Journey in Writing and Grieving, which analyses the evidence that Shakespeare's later plays show traces of his grief for his son Hamnet, who died, aged 11, in 1596.

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