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Sandra K. Ellston, also published under the pen names Sandra K. Fischer and Sandra Mason (née Klein, June 18, 1950, in Salem, Oregon) is an American Shakespearean scholar and professor of English and writing at Eastern Oregon University, where she also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and where she was recipient of the Woman of Vision and Courage Award.
Biography
She received a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1980. After that, she was a professor at the State University of New York at Albany, where she received both the President's and the Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching and was Chair of Undergraduate Studies in English and co-director of the Humanities Center. She has conducted research at the Folger Shakespeare Library and received an American Council of Learned Societies grant to participate in the World Shakespeare Conference in Berlin. She specializes in studies of metaphor, particularly metaphors of value and coinage, and is author of Econolingua (1985). Her articles on Renaissance dramatist Elizabeth Cary and on the character Ophelia in Hamlet are widely reprinted. As a Research Fellow at the Oregon State University Center for the Humanities, she applied metaphors of value and valuation to Shakespeare’s history plays. Her scholarly articles appear in various learned journals.
She has spent the last decade as a creative writer of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and drama. Her works appear in various literary magazines, and she was a recipient of the Oregon Literary Arts fellowship award in drama. She is founder and organizer of the Northwest Poets' Concord.