[Stanford professor of English Shelley Fisher Fishkins discusses
how she
discovered Mark Twain's play 'Is He Dead?'
which she is
staging for the first time on the West Coast at the Center Theater
in
Long Beach.]
The 2009-10 fellows were chosen from a pool of more than 400
applicants
and include scholars from other institutions, Stanford faculty and
advanced Stanford graduate students.
[Tom McFadden, a Stanford biology instructor, produced "Regulatin'
Genes" and five other rap videos as a teaching aid for his
students. His videos are now gaining attention nationwide for their
creativity.]
[Re: Alex McInturff, graduate student at the School of Earth
Sciences.
His advisers include Professor of history Richard White, and
Professor
emeritus of history David Kennedy.]
[Professor of English and Mark Twain scholar Shelly Fisher-Fishkin
discovered the author's manuscript after 100 years of
disappearance
and helped to initiate its revival as a play.]
