Karen Feiner received her PhD from Purdue University and is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Oklahoma. She has been on the stage, behind the stage, turned her classroom into a stage, and truly believes that "the world's a stage."She recently started the podcast The Shakespearean Shrew and loves being able to talk to others and hear their stories – and then broadcast them into the Shrewniverse. Growing up between a Southern Lebanese Catholic family and an East Coast Jewish Ukrainian family, as essentially a Lebanese Jew (one of three that she knows of - the other two being her sisters), she know what it is to be told who and what you are; she knows what it is like to live between communities rather than within a community. Theater was her community growing up (and books), and it is in theater (and books) that she always finds her way home.