Karin Thomson
Academic | Writer | Creative
KARIN THOMSON
Academic | Writer | Creative
About
Karin Thomson has worked in academic librarianship for over twenty years. Her previous post was as the Librarian at the University of Birmingham's presitigious Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Taking full advantage of related opportunities during her library career enabled Karin to develop specialities in other fields, including lecturing, project management, digitisation, academic publications, film making and scriptwriting.
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Her passion for libraries and archives and her belief in their importance in society, has fuelled her career and resulted in her commitment to a PhD for the HLF funded Everything to Everybody project, lead by the Univesity of Birmingham.
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Inspired by collaboration and team building with others in her field, Karin has a rich and varied career that continues to spark and inspire creativity in herself and those she works with.
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Library and Archives
Over 25 years of experience with libraries, archives, staff and collection management:
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Shakespeare Institute Librarian, University of Birmingham
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Reader Services Librarian, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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IT Librarian, Cambridgeshire County Council
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Roles and Afficiations included:​
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Chair of APAC Association of Performing Arts Collections
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Consultant Editor for Adam Matthew Digital Royal Shakespeare Company Archives
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Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association
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Performance history contributor to Palgrave MacMillan RSC Editions
Publications
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Forgotten treasures: the world's first great Shakespeare library, ed. Ewan Fernie and Tom Epps (Alcester: West Midlands History Limited, 2022)
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Annotated Bibliography for Arden Research Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, ed. Kathryn Prince and Peter Kirwan (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020)
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‘‘Time out of joint’: traumatic hauntings in the Spanish Civil War films of Guillermo del Toro’, The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro, ed. John Morehead (McFarland, 2015)
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‘Professional productions of early modern drama, 1960–2010,’ Performing Early Modern Drama Today, eds. by Pascale Aebischer and Kathryn Prince (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
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22 performance histories for the Royal Shakespeare Company Complete Works project; published in single editions of the plays (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008-2011)
