{"id":1315,"date":"2024-07-02T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1315"},"modified":"2024-07-02T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:25:11","slug":"kyna-hamill","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/profile\/kyna-hamill\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyna Hamill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyna Hamill<span> <\/span>is the Director of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences Core Curriculum and Master Lecturer affiliated with BU\u2019s School of Theatre and African American Studies.<\/p>\n<div>She specializes in Baroque theatricality, theatre and visual culture and theatre and war. She has published articles on props, print culture, telescopes, and the monstrous in the 17th\u00a0century as well as articles on staged violence. (See an<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/howlround.com\/blood-ancient-blood\" title=\"https:\/\/howlround.com\/blood-ancient-blood\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/howlround.com\/blood-ancient-blood&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629220373699000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE-aqNADFjtMCpXKPJGSKxkcHs-6Q\">interview<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>here she did on using stage blood.) She edited<i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/They-Fight-Classical-Contemporary-Development\/dp\/1575253224\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/They-Fight-Classical-Contemporary-Development\/dp\/1575253224&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629220373699000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGB4mtuqwdwxd0688FoBDD4kYexbw\"><i>They Fight: Classical to Contemporary Stage Fight Scenes<\/i><\/a>, a collection of stage combat scenes, with special attention paid to diverse weaponry and scenes for women.\u00a0 Hamill\u2019s research on the origins of the song \u201cJingle Bells\u201d was covered in<span>\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/dec\/22\/is-jingle-bells-racist-despite-backlash-from-the-right-its-not-black-and-white\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/dec\/22\/is-jingle-bells-racist-despite-backlash-from-the-right-its-not-black-and-white\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/dec\/22\/is-jingle-bells-racist-despite-backlash-from-the-right-its-not-black-and-white&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629220373699000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEzcj0xRvwDyAJKYLx05cgehGf9dg\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in 2017. Her current research project examines the visual legacy of the Baroque print artist Jacques Callot (1592-1635) in art, literature and theatre.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":20263,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1315\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}