{"id":162979,"date":"2020-07-28T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=162979"},"modified":"2020-07-28T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:08:10","slug":"meet-evelyn-tribble-shakespeare-fanatic-hammer-thrower-new-clas-associate-dean-humanities-undergraduate-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/07\/meet-evelyn-tribble-shakespeare-fanatic-hammer-thrower-new-clas-associate-dean-humanities-undergraduate-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Evelyn Tribble: Shakespeare Fanatic, Hammer Thrower, and New CLAS Associate Dean for Humanities and Undergraduate Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dean Juli Wade welcomed Evelyn \u201cLyn\u201d Tribble as Associate Dean for Humanities and Undergraduate Affairs on July 27. Tribble will support faculty and undergraduate students as they prepare for remote and in-person research and classes this year.<\/p>\n

The English professor brings six years of administrative experience and a wealth of knowledge in humanities research and education.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first year is going to be in part about how we\u2019re managing teaching and learning during this time,\u201d Tribble said. \u201cI’ll do whatever I can to support teachers and faculty in delivering the best education we can and try to make this transition work well for students. There is no more important time than the present to strengthen humanities education,” she says.<\/p>\n

Tribble was the Trustee for the Shakespeare Association of America<\/a> for several years, and helped plan a conference marking the 400th year of Shakespeare’s death. She also served as the President of the Australia-New Zealand Shakespeare Association. In her free time, Tribble throws the heavyweight and the hammer in Master’s athletic competitions.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining UConn in 2018, Tribble worked at the University of Otago in New Zealand for 15 years as a professor of English, serving six years as a department head. At Otago, Tribble saw the impact that a lack of general education can have on undergraduates.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Zealand\u2019s universities run differently than what I was familiar with,\u201d she says. For instance, there are larger lectures with fewer faculty. And there\u2019s not a model for a general education curriculum.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking in a university system that did not have a general education system really made me appreciate the importance of a liberal arts foundation for all students,\u201d Tribble says. \u201cOn the other hand, The University of Otago had a very robust method of team teaching, which exposed students to a variety of viewpoints in a single course.\u201d<\/p>\n

After earning her Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, Tribble worked on a range of topics related to print culture and printed books, transitioning into research on Shakespeare and Renaissance-era theater history.<\/p>\n

For the past 20 years, she\u2019s incorporated concepts from psychology, history, and performing arts into her research, exploring memory and attention in theater actors, how Shakespearean theater managed complex groups of actors, and even the use of gesture in language.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a wide range of interests, and you can connect so many topics to Shakespeare,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Her most recent book, Early Modern Actors in Shakespeare\u2019s Theatre: Thinking with the Body<\/em><\/a> examines the variety of skills early modern actors used to perform Shakespeare\u2019s plays, and how those skills differ from contemporary actors. It sprang from an interest in how Shakespeare\u2019s company put on five or six different plays per week, which today, Tribble says, would seem an impossible workload.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love having students from different majors and fields in my class, such as biology, or other areas that wouldn\u2019t necessarily take a Shakespeare class,\u201d she says. \u201cI think it can be a real strength to expand their knowledge base.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond helping to ensure safe and productive courses during the pandemic and advocating for interdisciplinary research with the humanities, the new Associate Dean hopes to implement some new methods of assessing students, which could be particularly useful during a time when traditional classroom procedures are being rethought for distance learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents are learning so much new media and are able to express themselves in a range of ways, both digital and print,\u201d Tribble says. \u201cI’m hoping to work with faculty on developing some innovative ways of engaging and evaluating students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Tribble says funding for humanities research is typically less in dollar amount than what is available for social sciences and STEM, she looks forward to helping faculty achieve humanities innovations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can do astonishing things with fewer resources,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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