Kim C Sturgess

he American Nation, (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Currently listed in the collections of over 397 University libraries worldwide. ISBN 0521835852

Sailing Around Britain, (London: Fernhurst Books, 2014). True-life adventure narrative. ISBN 9781909911178

This Precious Isle, (London: Matador, 2011). Written as chronicler and polemicist, a traveller’s narrative and observational portrait of contemporary Britain. ISBN 9781848766822


Published articles and book chapters:
‘The Tempest – QNCC November 2015’. MIT Global Shakespeares. The MIT Global Shakespeare Video & Performance Archive is a project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. It is peer reviewed and I have contributed ten videos and metadata to this important international project (December 2016).

‘Melville and Shakespeare’ book chapter in Herman Melville in Context, ed Kevin J. Hayes, (Cambridge University Press, November 2017). ISBN 9781107169760

‘Teaching Shakespeare to undergraduates – the myth of the problem-play’, book chapter in Challenges and Channels: English Language and Literature at a Crossroads of Cultures, ed Ikram Elsherif, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016). ISBN 978-1-4438-8951-3

‘Shakespeare’s Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre’, peer review, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Vol 151, 2014. ISSN 907653273

‘A Republican Dream? – Americans Question Shakespeare’, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation. Vol VIII, Number 2, 2014. ISSN 1554-6985

‘Shakespeare in America’ peer review, Comparative Drama, Vol 47, No.2 (Michigan, 2013). ISSN 00104078

‘Shakespeare and American Life’ peer review, Archiv fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, (Berlin: 2008). ISSN 00038970

‘Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage’, Teague, Frances, peer review, Archiv fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, (Berlin: 2007). ISSN 00038970

‘Delia Bacon – American nationalist’, Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Vol 50, (Leipzig: Veb Vertag Enzyklopadie, March 2002). ISSN 0044-2305

‘Anglo-American rivalry in nineteenth-century popular culture’, Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, (September 2001). ISSN 13627902

‘So fair and foul a play?’ (Macbeth), Around the Globe, p 22-25, Quarterly, Issue 19, (London: Shakespeare’s Globe, Autumn 2001). ISSN 13662317

‘Hardly Plain Sailing’ Yachts and Yachting, p 15-17, (January 1981). ISSN 00440000
Internet video and sound files of academic research -
My research on ‘Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter’, funded by a QU grant (2011/12) resulted in a lecture and a video. This 30 minute lecture is public and now available on You Tube. During the work on the stage Complete Works of Shakespeare production one of my students Noor Ahmed Ali, made a promotional video. This can be seen on You Tube. I was interviewed for Shakespeare in American Life (2007) a radio documentary produced for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, page 7 – item 3. Three one-hour shows broadcast by PBS, narrated by Sam Waterston and created by producer Richard Paul. Theatre Stage – Co-Director of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. A community drama project staged at the Qatar National Convention Centre, four public performances 7-10 November 2015. Enliven The Tempest, Producer for video documentary film. A CAS student senior Mass Comms project. Directed a QU student performance of excerpt from The Tempest - Act 1, Sc 2
Adapted from The Doha Players production staged at QNCC. Prospero – Mione van der Merwe. Miranda – Hind Faraj Bajeda. May 2016. Co-Director of The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged, a community drama project staged at the Qatar National Theatre, three public performances Feb/Mar 2013. Radio broadcasts – ‘The Children of Adam and Hawa’ for QF Radio, Doha (30 June 2014). Thirty minute one-to-one interview discussing monograph book This Precious Isle, (London: Matador, 2011).

‘Shakespeare in Black and White’, I contributed to a radio programme broadcast throughout the USA in April 2007.

‘Shakespeare in American Life’ for the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC (PRI USA, April 2007). My academic research on Shakespeare and America was used and I was interviewed for a three hour documentary. This radio programme has been broadcast by 193 different stations in the USA is available via an interactive website.