DAVID N. KLAUSNER FEBRUARY 1999
2. Degrees: 3. Research awards and academic honours: 4. Extra-university service
a. Broadcasting
For the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation I have appeared regularly as a commentator on
subjects dealing principally with early music and drama. Poculi Ludique Societas: Bald Ego Theatre: Toronto Early Music Centre: University of Toronto Art Centre: Last updated 2 December 2002.
A. Biographical and Academic History
1. Personal:
Home address: 303 Sumach St., Toronto M5A 3K4
University address: University College 145
and
Centre for Medieval Studies,
39 Queen's Park Cresc. E.,
Home telephone: 964-1405
Office telephone: University College 978-8096
Medieval Centre 978-5422
e-mail: david.klausner@utoronto.ca
Date of birth: 1 July 1941; Redlands, California, USA
Citizenship: Canadian, US
A.B. Harvard University, 1963 (magna cum laude)
Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Chapter Alpha of Massachusetts
Ph.D. Cambridge University, 1968
Thesis: Didacticism in some Middle English Romances, its Nature and Origins
Supervisors: Ursula Dronke (principal supervisor),
Derek Brewer,
Helena M. Shire
The series "Mostly Beecham", a sequence of thirteen 1½-hour programs dealing with the life
and career of Sir Thomas Beecham for which I wrote the scripts, produced by the CBC through
its program "Mostly Music" in 1979, has been broadcast all over the world, and received the
1979 International Gabriel Award for Broadcasting.
b. Arts administration
Board of Directors, 1980-; Chair 1990-1993
Production Committee, Chair 1993-7
Board of Directors, Vice-president and Chair 1993-6
President and Chair 1996-8
Board of Directors, 1994-8
Board of Trustees, 2001-