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Article: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH BOURUS RECEIVES THIRD CONSECUTIVE NEW FRONTIERS IN ARTS GRANT FROM INDIANA UNIVERSITY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 2, 2007
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Indiana University at Kokomo issued the following news release:
Assistant Professor of English Terri Bourus, Ph.D., has received a third consecutive New Frontiers in the Arts grant from Indiana University. She'll use the $40,000 to bring the American Shakespeare Company touring troupe to IU Kokomo for a 10-day residency in February 2008. The visiting actors will lead student workshops and perform Henry V and Taming of the Shrew.
Bourus' grant proposal suggested a two-fold approach to teaching Shakespeare: using professional actors along with the new computer-based pedagogical tool XMAS, developed by Professor Peter Donaldson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "This program allows ...