Faculty Profiles

Dr. Mark Beatrice Kaethler, Instructor

Education & Credentials:

• PhD, University of Guelph
• MA, Lakehead University
• HBA, Lakehead University

Began teaching at MHC: 2016

Mark Beatrice Kaethler teaches and researches early literature, particularly Shakespearean drama. Their classes explore these texts alongside contemporary adaptations, theories, and social issues. They approach the idea of what constitutes a literary text from a broad perspective that encompasses their various interests, ranging from early theatre to videogames.

They work on digital editorial projects that have received SSHRC funding with collaborators at the University of Victoria and other institutions, and their classes have participated in these activities, generating open-access publications that have credited students for their contributions.

Mark has previously held a fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and their work has been published in various scholarly journals and collections of essays. They are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (2021) and a co-editor of Shakespeare's Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (2018) as well as Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature (2024).

They have served as MHC's Academic Chair of Arts (2021-2024); the representative for all Canadian colleges on the Board of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (2022-2024); and the President (2020-2021), Vice President (2019-2020), Past President (2021), Treasurer (2021-2023), and Chief Negotiator (2022-2023, 2023-Present) of Medicine Hat College Faculty Association. They continue to serve as Book Review Editor for the journal Early Theatre, Secretary on the Board of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, Vice-President Communications on the Executive of the Alberta Colleges and Institutes Faculties Association, and a trustee on the Medicine Hat Public Library Board.