{"id":84,"date":"2019-10-11T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/?post_type=profile&p=84"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:36:40","slug":"kyna-hamill","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/people\/kyna-hamill\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyna Hamill"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kyna Hamill\u00a0<\/span><\/b>is\u00a0the Director of the College of Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum and a Master Lecturer.

She specializes in Baroque theatricality, theatre and visual culture, and the commedia dell’arte tradition. She has published articles on teaching the commedia dell’arte, props, print culture, telescopes, and the monstrous in the 17th century as well as articles on staged violence. (See an\u00a0<\/span>interview<\/a> here on using stage blood.) She edited\u00a0They Fight: Classical to Contemporary Stage Fight Scenes<\/a><\/i>, a collection of stage combat scenes, with special attention paid to diverse weaponry and scenes for women. Hamill\u2019s research on the origins of the song \u201cJingle Bells\u201d was covered in\u00a0<\/span>The Guardian<\/a><\/i> in 2017. Her forthcoming book with Routledge entitled Theatre and Print Culture in the Manner of Jacques Callot<\/a> (2026) examines the visual legacy of the print artist Jacques Callot (1592-1635) in art, literature and theatre.<\/div>\n
Read about some of her work in\u00a0<\/span>BU Today<\/i>:<\/div>\n