Campus Directories

Kelly Mullan, Ph.D.

Kelly holds a Ph.D. in Humanities and Culture with a certificate in Women and Gender Studies from Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her scholarship is focused on the intersection of Communication, Fat Studies, and Women and Gender Studies, and more specifically on self-esteem and social media usage. She is a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media Studies, and serves as the Associate Director of General Education, and the Director of Dignitas, the college's signature first-year program.

Kelly Mullan, Ph.D.

Kelly holds a Ph.D. in Humanities and Culture with a certificate in Women and Gender Studies from Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her scholarship is focused on the intersection of Communication, Fat Studies, and Women and Gender Studies, and more specifically on self-esteem and social media usage. She is a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media Studies, and serves as the Associate Director of General Education, and the Director of Dignitas, the college's signature first-year program.

Sharon Obst, MA, MBA

Sharon teaches in the Dignitas Program and in the Communication, Theatre, and Art Department. She also Directs and acts as Musical Director for the College Theatre Program.

Kevin Quarmby, PhD

Dr. Kevin A. Quarmby, Associate Professor and Rose Warner Endowed Professor of English in the School of Arts and Sciences, is a Shakespeare scholar specializing in Shakespeare and social justice, Shakespeare and performance, and global Shakespeare studies. Prior to his academic career, he was a professional stage, television, and film actor.

Dr. Quarmby was awarded a PhD in English (Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama) by King's College, University of London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He won the King's College 'Inglis Prize' and gained full Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for his doctoral research. During his graduate studies, he taught English Renaissance Literature at King's College London, followed by University of Notre Dame, St. Lawrence University, and University of California courses, all for their London study-abroad experiences.

On completing his PhD, Quarmby was invited to teach at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London, as a Globe Education Lecturer, as well as offering study-abroad Shakespeare courses for Florida State University, Drexel University, and Temple University.

As Associate Tutor for the University of Sussex's English and Drama Department, Quarmby workshopped and directed a production of Ben Jonson's Masque of Queens. He also taught Emory University's Summer Program at the University of Oxford, and was Guest Lecturer at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, teaching Restoration and Long Eighteenth-Century Drama. In the Fall of 2012, Quarmby accepted an Assistant Professorship at Emory University's Oxford College, and in 2017 accepted his present post at The College of St. Scholastica.

Away from the 'physical' classroom, Quarmby is passionate about Shakespeare and social justice. His Shakespeare classes regularly invite outside participants to join his students, while also interacting with academics and practitioners from around the world. During his three-year tenure as Distinguished Visiting Scholar (2011-2014), he received tremendous support from the Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning based at Emory University.

Quarmby has published extensively in academic journals, including Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin, ROMARD, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Shakespearean International Yearbook, and twice in Shakespeare Survey. His book, The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, was shortlisted for the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2014, and reissued in paperback by Routledge in 2016. Other publications include chapters in Women Making Shakespeare (Bloomsbury 2013), Shakespeare Beyond English (Cambridge UP 2013), Macbeth: The State of Play (Bloomsbury 2014), The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play (Bloomsbury 2017).

In Global and Local Myths in Shakespearean Performance (Palgrave Macmillan 2018), Quarmby analyzes “Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet,” while in The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social Justice (Bloomsbury 2020), he addresses “‘Shakespeare in Prison’: A South African Social Justice Alternative,” and Shakespeare's importance as an educational tool for preventing recidivism.

Quarmby's latest publications continue to explore the pedagogical and political implications of Shakespeare on a global scale. In his 2021 article, “PPE for Shakespearians: Pandemic, Performance and Education,” for the Cambridge University Press annual edition of Shakespeare Survey, Volume 74, Quarmby analyzes how alternative performance technologies forced on theater producers by the COVID-19 pandemic translate into the Shakespeare classroom. On the other hand, Quarmby's 2022 article, “Anti-Shakespeare Rhetoric and Colombia’s ‘Theatre for Peace’,” published in Shakespearean International Yearbook, studies the significance of Shakespeare in post-conflict Colombia for countering the gender-based violence that has dominated this troubled nation for several generations. Quarmby is grateful to The College of St. Scholastica for supporting his research and published scholarship, and for recognizing the social justice imperative at its core.