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 (MB) 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.

MB has previously held short-term and micro fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library as well as a Pforzheimer Fellowship with the Bibliographical Society of America and the Harry Ransom Center. They are the Assistant Director for the Map of Early Modern London's mayoral shows as well as Linked Early Modern Drama Online, both of which are digital projects hosted at the University of Victoria that have previously received SSHRC funding. 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 or serve 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), Chief Negotiator (2022-2023, 2023-), and Secretary (2025-) of the Medicine Hat College Faculty Association. They continue to serve as Book Review Editor for the journal Early Theatre; Vice-President on the Board of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance; Vice-President, Professional Affairs, on the Executive of the Alberta Colleges and Institutes Faculties Association; and a trustee on the Medicine Hat Public Library Board, of which they are currently Chair.