Dr. Ken Bennett, Emeritus Professor of English, has just published his most recent work, Threading Shakespeare's Sonnets online. Bennett sees the Sonnets as a narrative held together by threads of themes and motifs, such as the color black or the myth of Cupid. He notes that the furrows of a brow in one place are echoed by the furrows of a plow in another sonnet.

On the technical side of things, Bennett has been assisted by LIT student employees who work under the supervision and direction of Academic Technology Specialist Donnie Sendelbach. LIT student employee Alex Monahov ('10) worked on the design and two-column layout of the book, whose chapters include the text of each sonnet beside the commentary. Next, Gabriella Panayotova ('10) implemented the design in MS Word and then converted each chapter to a PDF. Quincy Roberts ('09) also converted portions of the 293-page text to PDF and then into "Flash Paper," using Macromedia's Flash software. Roberts used DreamWeaver and its template feature to create a website to frame the online documents and allow navigation throughout the chapters. The students worked throughout the summer on this project through funding from the Dean of Faculty's Office.

Threading Shakespeare's Sonnets is available at http://campus.lakeforest.edu/kbennett/sonnets.