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BARBARA J. BONO
210 Crescent Avenue Department of English Buffalo, N.Y. 14214 The University at Buffalo (716) 834-7880 Buffalo, N.Y. 14260 [email protected] (716) 645-0713
CURRICULUM VITAE October 2016 EDUCATION:
1970-78: Ph.D., Brown University, English Literature. Thesis: Renaissance Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Heroic Drama. 1966-70: A.B., Thomas More College of Fordham University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
2010-2016: Director, UB Undergraduate Academy, Civic Engagement 2003 on: Affiliate member, Department of History, The University at Buffalo 1996: Faculty member, NEH summer Teaching Shakespeare Institute, The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. 1986 on: Associate Professor, Department of English, The University at Buffalo. Study leave, spring 2007, spent as guest of the Folger Shakespeare Library ; Sabbatical, spring 1998, spent as guest of The Tanner Humanities Center, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Sabbatical, fall 1990-spring 1991, spent as guest of The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. 1984-86: Assistant Professor, Department of English, The University at Buffalo 1983-84: Mellon Fellow, Harvard University 1982-83: Junior Fellow, Cornell University Society for the Humanities 1978-82: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1975-77: Instructor, Department of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1972-75: Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Brown University
HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS (postdoctoral):
2016-17: Participant, Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance,” Yearlong Colloquium, The Folger Institute ($2,124 individual grant-in-aid) 2016: President Emeritus and Mrs. Martin Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring 2015-6: Major UB Humanities Institute Conference Funding ($20,000), plus about $8,000 from other sources to fund a three-part commemorative year conference on “Object and Adaptation: The Worlds of Shakespeare and Cervantes,” as well as other public humanities events in the year-long “Bvffalo Bard 2016: 400 Years Since Shakespeare” 2014: Co-author and PI, UB President’s Circle Proposal, Field-Based Experiential Learning Experience for Living Learning Communities at the University at Buffalo: ReTree the District ($50,000, not awarded) 2002: Education Technology Center Faculty Summer Workshop 2001-02: Milton Plesur Undergraduate Student Association Award for Excellence in Teaching 2000: One-time SUNY Mission Review Grant of $118,000 to enhance entering graduate student stipends for F2001 2000: Co-proposer (with Professor Claire Kahane), SUNY Conferences in the Disciplines grant of $2,500 in support of November 2000 UB English Department conference on “The Holocaust: Trauma, Memory, and Representation” 1995-97: Co-chair (with Associate Vice-Provost for University Services Carole Smith Petro and Distinguished Service Professor Claude Welch), UB University-wide Sesquicentennial Committee 1992-93: Milton Plesur Undergraduate Student Association Award for Excellence in Teaching 1990: Keynote speaker, Phi Beta Kappa induction, UB chapter, "Space for Reflection" 1989: SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, UB 1989: Keynote speaker, inaugural award ceremony, Golden Key National Honor Society, UB chapter 1989: Panelist, seventy-fifth anniversary celebration, Arts and Sciences Faculties, UB 1986-90: Senior member, Undergraduate College, UB 1985: SUNY Individual Faculty Development Grant, UB 1983-84: Harvard University Mellon Faculty Fellowship 1982-83: Junior Fellow, Cornell University Society for the Humanities 1981: University of Michigan Class of '23 Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching 1979: University of Michigan Rackham Faculty Research Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS:
Book: 1984: Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 264 pp. Articles: 1998: Reprint of “Mixed Gender, Mixed Gender in Shakespeare’s As You Like It,” Gale Research Press 1994: "The Birth of Tragedy: Tragic Action in Julius Caesar," English Literary Renaissance 24 (1994), 449-70 1992: “The Chief Knot of All the Discourse: The Maternal Subtext Tying Sidney's Arcadia to Shakespeare's King Lear” in Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance, ed. Susan Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies (London: Harvester- Wheatsheaf Press, 1992), 105-28 1992: Reprint of "Mixed Gender, Mixed Genre in Shakespeare's As You Like It," Rosalind, ed. Harold Bloom (New York and Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1992), 151-66 1990: "Dido," in The Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A.C. Hamilton, et. al. (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press and London: Routledge, 1990) 218-19 (4 single-spaced columns) 1987: Reprint of "The Dido Episode" (a chapter from Literary Transvaluation) in Virgil's "Aeneid", ed. Harold Bloom (New York and Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1987), 103-26 1986: "Mixed Gender, Mixed Genre in Shakespeare's As You Like It," Harvard English Studies, 14 (1986) 189-212 1975: "The Prose Fictions of William Morris: A Study in the Literary Aesthetic of a Victorian Social Reformer," Victorian Poetry 13 (1975), 43-59 Reviews: 1998: Review of Katharine Eisaman Maus's Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance, in Medieval and Renaissance Drama In England, 10 (1998), 352-58 1993: Review (with James J. Bono) of F. David Hoeniger's Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance, in Literature and Medicine, 12 (1993), 253-57 1992: Review of Mihoko Suzuki's The Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic, in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 6 (1992), 247-52
SCHOLARLY CITATIONS:
Partial citations of some of my scholarly work are publically available through GOOGLE Scholar Citations. As of May 2016 they have found that my scholarship has been:
cited 118 times; not surprisingly, my most frequented-cited work is my book, at 79 citations; it is followed by my article on As You Like It, at 22 citations; these modest citations are relatively evenly-distributed, even to the present day, and even experienced a small recent spike in 2014-15. SCHOLARLY PAPERS, LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:
Extra-university:
2016: Invited speaker, The Western New York Network of English Teachers 2016 Summer Conference: Rethinking Shakespeare, “Shakespeare and ‘The Seven Ages of Man’: And What About Women and Other Possibilities?” 2016: Program notes, screenings of re-mastered copy of Orson Welles classic Shakespeare film, Chimes at Midnight (1965) for Buffalo’s North Park Theatre 2016: Invited speaker, The Center for the Study of Art & Architecture, History & Nature (C-SAAHN), “Shakespeare and Public Humanities,” May 3, downtown Buffalo & Erie County Library 2016: Invited participant, seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, “Shakespeare and Montaigne,” “Happy, or ‘I’ll teach you how to flow,’ March 23-26, New Orleans 2016: Introduction, gala screening of the film Shakespeare in Love, The North Park Theatre, Buffalo, New York, in conjunction with “Bvffalo Bard: 2016: 400 Years Since Shakespeare” 2016: Endowed Samuel G. Dunn Lecture in the Medical Humanities on “Comedy/ Tragedy, Laughing. Crying, Farting/Bleeding: Balancing the Humoral Body” in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine touring exhibit, “’And there’s the humor of it’: Shakespeare and the Four Humors,” University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 2015: Invited co-ordinator, colloquy, “The Best Class I (N)Ever Taught,” with some 8-10 of my former graduate students, Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, Virginia, October 27-November 1 2015: Invited participant, seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, “Shakespeare and Film Forum,” “’He has no children’: Othello, Internal Affairs and the Logic of Cultural Reproduction” April 1-4, Vancouver 2014: Invited participant, Sixteenth Century Society, session on plague, “Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist and Re-Amortizing the Body Politic,” October 16-19, New Orleans 2014: Invited participant, seminar, Shakespeare Association of America “The Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and his World,” “What’s Obscene in Shakespeare’s Othello,” April 9-12, St. Louis 2014: Invited participant, Renaissance Society of America, “Classical Reception in Early Modern England,”” Strange Constructions: The Influence of Cicero’s De natura deorum on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,” March 27-29, New York City 2013: Invited participant, Wooden O Symposium, Utah, “What’s Obscene in Shakespeare’s Othello,” August 5-7, Cedar City, Utah 2013: Invited participant, seminar, “Class and Emotions,” Shakespeare Association of America, “Bright metal on a sullen ground”: The Foil of Class in Shakespeare’s I Henry IV,” March 28-30, Toronto 2012: Invited participant,””Early Modern Cities in Comparative Perspective,” Conference, The Folger Institute, September 27-29. (Grant-in-aid), Washington, D.C. 2011: Session Chair, “Writers and Writing in Early Modern England: A Symposium in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski,” April 29-30, Harvard University 2011: Invited participant, “Translation: Theory, Practice, History,” Spring Weekend Conference, The Folger Institute, March 4-5. (Grant-in- aid), Washington. D.C. 2009: “The Perspective from a State University,” in “Today’s Students, Today’s Teachers: Economics,” MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia 2009: “Repetition and Remembering in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale,” “Alum-inaries: A Homecoming Celebration for the Fordham Community, Honoring Distinguished Alumnae & Alumni,” October 7, 2009, Fordham University 2007: Invited participant, “The Second Shepherd’s Play and Early Drama Studies,” Weekend Workshop, The Folger Institute, December 13- 14. (Grant-in-aid), Washington D.C. 2006: Invited participant, drama workshop on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, 2.3, Renaissance Drama in Action, The University of Toronto 2004: “The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and the Construction of English National Identity,” Niagara Frontier Branch, The English Speaking Union, Buffalo 2002: Director, Workshop on “Teaching Shakespeare,” Western New York Writers’ Project Summer Institute, Buffalo 2002: “Collegiality and the Law: or The Ties That Bind,” formal talk and panel discussion for the double session on “Promotion and Tenure Denial and Other Conflicts: Strategies and Avenues Open to Faculty,” sponsored by the Academic Discriminatory Advisory Board, The National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada 1999: “’Wild Waters’:Teaching Shakespeare’s The Tempest,” Erie County BOCES, Hamburg, New York 1999: Invited participant, “Constructing Power from Above and Below: Shakespeare’s Henriad and Dekker’s The Shoemakers’ Holiday, seminar on “Shakespeare and His Contemporary Dramatists, circa 1599-1601: Fin de Siècle and a Turning Point,” Shakespeare Association of America, San Francisco 1998: “The Cult of Elizabeth and the Production of Elizabethan Literature” (expanded and revised), The Tanner Humanities Center, the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 1998: As above, The University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado 1998: “Teaching Shakespeare” (a workshop for graduate students of English and of Education), The University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado 1997: Invited participant, Workshop on "Teaching Shakespeare 2000," Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, D.C. 1996: Three formal lectures--"Son of the Sun: Language, Genealogy and Authority in Shakespeare's Richard II," "The Erotic Work of Romantic Comedy: Mixed Gender, Mixed Genre in Shakespeare's As You Like It," and "Caliban's Genealogy: Or Close Encounters of the Third Kind"—as faculty member, NEH summer Teaching Shakespeare Institute, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. 1993: "The Cult of Elizabeth and the Production of Elizabethan Literature," The University of Nebraska, on the occasion of the acquisition of their two-millionth volume, a Shakespeare first folio, Lincoln, Nebraska 1993: As above, at The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 1993: Invited participant, "His-teria: King Lear as Hysterical Text," seminar on "Shakespeare and Medicine," Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, Georgia 1993: As above, at The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 1991: Commentator, divisional panel, Comparative Literature, "Witchcraft in Legal and Literary Discourses of the Renaissance," MLA, New York City 1991: Invited participant, "Hysteria/His-teria: Exorcising 'Woman' in Three of Shakespeare's Jacobean Plays" (Macbeth, King Lear and The Winter's Tale), seminar on "Shakespearean Romance and Its Sources," Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, B.C. 1989: Commentator, seminar on "Marxist/Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare," Shakespeare Association of America, San Francisco 1988: Invited participant, "Ovid and the Text of Social Mobility," seminar on "Ovidian Shakespeare/Shakespearean Ovid," Shakespeare Association of America, Baltimore, Maryland 1986: Invited participant, "'The Chiefe Knotte of All the Discourse': The Maternal Subtext Tying Sidney's Arcadia to Shakespeare's King Lear,” MLA special session on "The Other Texts in Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Shakespeare and His Sources," New York City 1986: Invited participant, "Repetition and Remembering: Imitation, Intertextuality, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale," Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal 1986: As above, at Carleton College, Minnesota 1986: Respondent, seminar on "Shakespeare's Narrative Poems," Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal 1986: Invited participant, "The Birth of Tragedy: Tragic Action in Julius Caesar," seminar on "Shakespeare and the Idea of Rome," Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal 1985: Invited participant, "Imitative Sonship in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy," seminar on "Imitation in Shakespeare," Shakespeare Association of America, Nashville, Tennessee 1984: Invited participant, "Mixed Gender, Mixed Genre in Shakespeare's As You Like It," Ohio Shakespeare Conference on "Shakespeare and Gender," Boston, Masscahuseets 1983: Invited participant, "Étienne Jodelle's Didon se sacrifiant and the Invocation to Venus, 'Mere de tout estre vivant': Vergil, Ovid, Lucretius," MLA Special Session on "Ovid and Renaissance Poetry," New York City 1981: Invited participant, "'Thou art the armourer of my heart': Spenser's and Shakespeare's Transvaluations of Vergil's Story of Dido," MLA Special Session on "Women Through Renaissance Literature" 1979: Invited participant, "Spenser, Shakespeare, and the Feminization of Epic," The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Intra-university:
2016: Invited speaker, English Department Commencement Ceremony 2016: Invited speaker, panel presentation, Research Across the Disciplines: Adventures in Note-Taking.” Where’s Research @UB? UB Office of Undergraduate Education 2016: Invited speaker, “The Cult of Elizabeth and the Production of Elizabethan Literature,” UB Gender Institute Feminist Research Alliance Workshop 2015: Guest lecturer on Shakespeare's Hamlet, 3 classes English 214: "Books: The Top Ten, Professor Kenneth Dauber, The University at Buffalo 2015: Invited speaker, UB Gender Institute Gender Week Symposium, Wonder Women and Super Men, “From A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Twelfth Night: Shakespeare and the Cult of Elizabeth in the Twilight of the Elizabethan Regime” 2015: Invited Work-in-Progress seminar, Early Modern Research Workshop, “Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist and Re-Amortizing the Body Politic” 2014: Invited “Fireside Chat” on my professional history, UB English Department Undergraduate Program 2012: Moderator, UB Feminist Research Alliance, “Disease’s Power to Expand Subjectivity: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic” 2011: Respondent, UB Feminist Research Alliance, “Let’s Redefine Love: Narrative Analysis of Performed Monologues by Gay and Lesbian Students” 2010: Invited book discussion leader, UB Libraries, UBReads 2010 selection Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea 2010: Invited “Fireside Chat” on my professional history, UB English Department Undergraduate Program 2004: “To See or Not to See,” UB Center for Teaching and Learning Resources 2004: Introduction, Barbara Ehrenreich, UB Distinguished Speaker’s Series 2004: Introduction and welcome, UB GSA-Renaissance Club, First Annual Shakespeare Conference, “Addressing The Dresser: Post- Imperialist Shakespeare” 2003: Invited speaker, “The Emperor is All Clothes: Handel’s Serse and the Colors of Opera,” academic panel presentation preceding the UB Department of Music Opera Workshop production of Handel’s Serse 2003: Invited speaker, UB Gender Institute Graduate Student panel presentation on “Gender in the Classroom: Gender Dynamics, Curriculum and Gender” 2002: “The Death of Tragedy,” guest lecture on Dante’s Divine Comedy, World Civilization course of Professor James Bono. (At his request I regularly give one of the lectures on Dante in History Department Professor James Bono’s World Civilization course. This was the third time I have lectured to them.) 2002: Special class on “The Cult of Elizabeth and the Production of Elizabethan Literature,” English Department teach-in, “Genderworks in Progress,” UB Gender Week 2002: Invited keynote speaker, English Department Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony 2001: Invited lecturer on “Shakespeare’s Will,” UB Campus Club 2001: Guest lecturer, “On Choosing a Major,” UB 101, Ms. Dawn Becker 2001: Organizer and mistress of ceremonies, English Department Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony 2000: Organizer and mistress of ceremonies, English Department Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony 2000: Guest lecturer on “Lying in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra,” English 310: Shakespeare: Later Works, Professor Theodora Janokowski 1999: Guest lecturer on “Beating the Bounds: Licensed Liberty in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure,” Humanities One ’99: Shaping Justice, Professor Bruce Jackson, Department of English, The University at Buffalo 1998: “Translatio studii, translatio imperii”: From Shakespeare’s Henriad to Robert Redford’s Quiz Show, or ‘The truth is, television is gonna get us,’” Professor Deidre Lynch, The English Department Goes to the Movies, The University at Buffalo 1997: Guest lecturer on Shakespeare's Hamlet, English 214: "Books: The Top Ten, Professor Kenneth Dauber, The University at Buffalo 1995: Guest lecturer on Shakespeare's Sonnets, Fine Arts course, Instructor William Kinser, The University at Buffalo 1993: Invited keynote speaker, first English Department Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony 1990 Invited keynote speaker, "Space for Reflection," annual induction ceremony, Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Claude Welch, The University at Buffalo 1989: Invited keynote speaker, inaugural induction ceremony, Golden Key National Honor Society, Dr. Peter Gold, The University at Buffalo 1989: Panelist, seventy-fifth anniversary celebration, Arts and Sciences College, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education John Thorpe, The University at Buffalo 1989: Lecture on "Recent Matter in Criticism of Shakespeare's Work," Professor Arthur Efron, Graduate Program in Literature and Society, The Department of English, The University at Buffalo 1988: Respondent for conference on "1 Henry IV: Social Upheaval and Critical Controversy," Professor Arthur Efron, Graduate Program in Literature and Society, Department of English, The University at Buffalo 1988: Guest lecturer on "Edmund Spenser," English 681, Proseminar: The Renaissance, Professor Max Wickert, Department of English, The University at Buffalo 1985: "The Representation of the Feminine in Patriarchal Literature, Women's Studies 309: New Research on Women: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Professor Elizabeth Kennedy, The University at Buffalo 1984: Work-in-progress seminar, “The Gynecology of the Text: The Sources of Shakespeare’s King Lear and Some of Their Progeny,” Program on History and Literature, Harvard University 1983: Work-in-progress seminar, “’The heart of my mystery’: Authority, Power and Sexuality in the Plays of William Shakespeare,” Andrew White Society for the Humanities, Cornell University 1980: "Blooms-bury Circles: Toward a Theory of Influence," Critical Theory Symposium, Department of English, The University of Michigan 1979: "The Influence of Vergil: Augustine to Shakespeare," three lectures, M.A. Proseminar Common Hour, Department of English, The University of Michigan 1978: "Sidney's Apology for Poetry," critical theory component, core courses for majors, Department of English, The University of Michigan 1977: "Edmund Spenser: The English Vergil," Renaissance area mini-course, The University of Michigan 1976: "Francis Bacon and the Uses of Mythology," Renaissance area mini- course, The University of Michigan
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
2014 on: Member, Sixteenth Century Society 1985 on: Member, Shakespeare Association of America. 1974 on: Member, MLA. 1971 on: Member, Renaissance Society of America.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
2016: Principal organizer, “Bvffalo Bard 2016: 400 Years Since Shakespeare” a year-long series of regional public humanities events including library displays of the early Shakespeare Folios and supporting materials at both the downtown Buffalo and Erie County Public Library and the UB Poetry Collection; Shakespeare-themed library displays and a Shakespeare Read-A-Thon at the UB Libraries; academic talks and a significant academic conference in Three Acts with Two Intervals (one-day undergraduate and graduate conferences), “Object and Adaptation: The Worlds of Shakespeare and Cervantes”; an all-day community and K-12 Shakespeare Festival; over a dozen dramatic productions by local high schools, colleges and theatre companies; a planetarium show; choral and orchestral performances music of based on Shakespeare’s works; film screenings of Shakespeare-themed works at local movie houses and a Shakespeare and film course; the launch of a Shakespeare Garden; and a “Shakespeare Jubilee” 2015-2017: Co-Director (with Professor David Castillo of Romance Languages and Literatures) of UB Early Modern Research Workshop 2014: Expert scholar, Folger Educational Division/English Speaking Union 2-day Shakespeare Intensive for regional high school teachers on “Teaching Romeo and Juliet” in accordance with Common Core standards 2014: Reader, Peter Lang Press 2013: Internal reviewer, tenure case, UB Graduate School of Education 2012: Reader, PMLA 2012: Reader, The Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition, Julius Caesar 2012: Reader, Modern Philology 2011: Tenure review, Tulane University, New Orleans 2012-14: Chair, Applications Review Committee, The Folger Institute 2010-14: Member, Applications Review Committee, The Folger Institute 2007: Tenure review, University of Colorado, Boulder 2004: External reader, Ph.D dissertation, Prasanta Chakravarty, Like Parchment in the Fire: Literature and Radicalism, 1640- 1660, University at Buffalo Department of Comparative Literature 2004: Participant, annual conference of the National Council for Research on Women, Oakland, California 2002: Promotion review, full professor, Drake University 1999-2014: Member, Executive Board, The Folger Institute 1999: Reader, Bedford Books 1999: Participant, MLA conference on “The Future of Doctoral Education,” The University of Wisconsin 1996: Invited participant, conference on "The Future of English," the University of Pittsburgh 1995: Reader, The University of Toronto Press 1994: Organizer, double seminar on "The Dramatic Origins of the English Revolution," Shakespeare Association of America 1994: Reader, Shakespeare Studies 1994: Tenure review, University of California, Riverside. 1994: Tenure review, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1990-93: Editorial Board Member, Studies in Iconography 1992: Reader, Shakespeare Studies 1991: Promotion review, full professor, Cornell University 1991: Tenure review, University of West Florida 1990: Promotion review, full professor, The University of Pennsylvania 1987: Reader, The University of New England Press 1982: Reader, The University of California Press 1981: Organizer, MLA Special Session on "Women Through Renaissance Literature" TEACHING:
Coursework: As Faculty Member, NEH summer Teaching Shakespeare Institute, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.:
Sum. 1996: One of four scholars teaching Shakespeare to 33 junior high and high school teachers from around the country in an intensive four-week, eight-hour a day format involving formal lectures, discussion, research and writing, acting exercises, screenings, performance
As Assistant/Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo (fall 1984 to present), where in 1989 I received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 1992-93 and again in 2001-2002 I received the Milton Plesur Undergraduate Student Association Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2016 I received the President Emeritus and Mrs. Martin Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring:
Course relief:
S07: Study leave because of previous overload teaching, spent as guest of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., where my husband was a fellow F06: Sabbatical S04-S06: One course a semester because of University-wide service as Director, UB Gender Institute (Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender, IREWG) F99-S01: One course a semester because of departmental service as Department Chair S99: Teaching leave because of overload teaching in S97 S1998: Sabbatical as guest at the Tanner Humanities Center, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, where my husband was a Fellow S97/S99: One course each spring because of departmental service as Director of the M.A. Program, F96/F98 F93-S95: One course a semester because of departmental service as Associate Chair F90-S91: Sabbatical as guest at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., where my husband was a member, and I participated in the seminars of the School of Social Sciences S90: One course because of University service as Chair of the Curriculum Committee of the Undergraduate College (resulted in publication and passage of "A New General Education Curriculum for Arts and Sciences at UB: A Proposal from the Undergraduate College to the University" of which I was the co-author) F88-S89: One course each semester because of departmental service as Director of Graduate Admissions and Fellowships S85-S88: One course each spring because of departmental service as Director of Graduate Admissions Graduate seminars:
F2013: English 409/610: Topics in Shakespeare: Teaching Shakespeare (28 students) F2012: English 517: Elizabethan/Jacobean Drama (8 students) F2009: English 517: Elizabethan/Jacobean Drama (18 students) F2008: English 414/516: Teaching Shakespeare (27 students) S2008: English 610: Studies in Shakespeare (10 students) F2005: English 518: Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama (5 students) S2005: English 414/516: Teaching Shakespeare (21 students) F2004: English 502A and B: Introduction to Scholarly Methods (13 students) F2003: English 502A and B: Introduction to Scholarly Methods (14 students) F2003: English 414/516: Teaching Shakespeare (25 students) S2003: English 518: Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama (18 students) F2002: English 414/516: Teaching Shakespeare (26 students) F2001: English 607: English Renaissance Literature: The Gynecology of the Text: Constructing and Deconstructing Political Power from Above and Below (8 students) F2000: English 414/516: Teaching Shakespeare (22 students) F1999: English 518: Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama (5 students) F1998: English 501A and B: Introduction to Scholarly Methods (13 students) F1997: English 501A and B: Introduction to Scholarly Methods (24 students) F1997: English 414/516: Teaching Shakespeare (20 students) F1996: English 501A and B: Introduction to Scholarly Methods (8 students). S1996: English 608: Studies in the Renaissance (7 students) F1995: English 515: Shakespeare: Complete Works (12 students) S1994: English 518: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (6 students) S1993: English 610: Studies in Shakespeare (9 students) S1992: English 607: Studies in the Renaissance (7 students) F1991: English 515: Shakespeare: Complete Works (14 students) S1990: English 610: Studies in Shakespeare: “The heart of my mystery”: Authority, Power and Sexuality in the Principal Plays of William Shakespeare (c. 16 students) F1989: English 607: Studies in the Renaissance (10 students) S1988: English 610: Studies in Shakespeare: “The heart of my mystery”: Authority, Power and Sexuality in the Principal Plays of William Shakespeare (c. 16 students) F1986: English 517: Elizabethan Literature: The Gynecology of the Text: Textual Production in Elizabethan Literature (c. 13 students) F1985: English 610: Studies in Shakespeare: “The heart of my mystery”: Authority, Power and Sexuality in the Principal Plays of William Shakespeare (c. 22 students) F1984: English 607: Sixteenth Century English Literature: Heroic Loves: The Confluence of the Amatory and the Heroic in Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare (c. 10 students)
Undergraduate courses:
S2016: English 310: Later Shakepeare (25 registered; 1 senior auditor=26 students) S2016: UE 143: Undergraduate Academies Civic Engagement II (20 students) S2016: UE 498: Independent Study: ReTree the District Phase #4 (25 students) F2015: English 309: Earlier Shakespeare (35 students) F2015: English 310: Later Shakespeare (University Honors Seminar) (24 students) F2015: UE 140 Undergraduate Academies Introductory Seminar (c. 120 students) F2015: UE 141: Discovery Seminar: Reading Shakespeare One Play at a Time: The Winter’s Tale (15 registered; 1 senior auditors = 16 students) F2015: UE 499: Independent Study: ReTree the District, Phase #3 (12 students) S2015: English 310: Later Shakespeare (43 students) S2015: UA 143: Undergraduate Academies Civic Engagement II (9 students) S2015: UE 141: Discovery Seminar: Reading Shakespeare One Play at a Time: King Lear (8 registered; 2 senior auditors = 10) S2015: UE 499: Independent Study: ReTree the District, Phase #2 (19 students) F2014: English 309: Earlier Shakespeare (59 students) F2014: English 379: Film Genres: Shakespeare and Film (35 students) F2014: UE 140 Undergraduate Academies Introductory Seminar (c. 150 students) F2014: UE 141: Discovery Seminar: Reading Shakespeare One Play at a Time: Macbeth (7 registered; 2 senior auditors = 9) F2014: UE 499: Independent Study: ReTree the District, Phase #1 (21 students) S2014: English 310: Later Shakespeare (60 students) S2014: UE 141: Discovery Seminar: Reading Shakespeare One Play at a Time; Romeo and Juliet (7 students) S2014: UA 143: Undergraduate Academies Civic Engagement II (6 students) F2013: English 309: Earlier Shakespeare (61 students) F2013: UE 141: Discovery Seminar: Reading Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (10 students) F2013: UE 140 Undergraduate Academies Introductory Seminar (c. 140 students) S2013: UE 141: Discovery Seminar: Open the Book: An Introduction to Literary Studies (14 students) S2013: UE 143: Undergraduate Academies Civic Engagement II (17 students) S2013: English 310: Later Shakespeare (39 students) F2012: UE 141: Discovery Seminar: Open the Book: An Introduction to Literary Studies (11 students) F2012: UE 140: Undergraduate Academies Introductory Seminar (c. 90 students) F2012: English 309: Earlier Shakespeare (63 students) S2012: UE 141: Discovery Seminar: Reading Shakespeare: Othello (15 students) S2012: UE 143: Undergraduate Academies Civic Engagement II (9 students) S2012: English 310: Later Shakespeare (90 students) F2011: UE 141: Discovery Seminar: Reading Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV (7 students) F2011: UE 140: Undergraduate Academies Introductory Seminar (90 students) F2011: English 379: Film Genres: Shakespeare and Film (59 students) F2011: English 309: Earlier Shakespeare (55 students) S2011: UE 141: Discovery Seminar: Reading Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (17 students) S2011: UE 143: Undergraduate Academies Civic Engagement II (20 students) S2011: English 308: Early English Drama (35 students) S2011: English 310: Late Shakespeare (43 students) F2010: UE 130: Undergraduate Academies Introductory Seminar (90 students) F2010: English 309: Earlier Shakespeare (80 students) S2010: English 379: Film Genres: Shakespeare, The Movie (36 students) S2010: English 310: Later Shakespeare (86 students) F2009: English 309: Earlier Shakespeare (86 students) S2009: English 307: Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama (c. 34 students) S2009: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays, with TA (c. 73 students) F2008: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays, with TA (c. 85 students) S2008: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays , with TA (c. 87 students) F2007: English 307: Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama (c. 25 students) F2007: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (c. 35 students) S2006: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (46 students) S2004: English 379: Film Genres: Shakespeare, The Movie (40 students) S2003: English 301: Criticism (27 students) S2003: English 301: Criticism (31 students) F2002: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays (45 students) S2002: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (46 students) S2002: English 301: Criticism (32 students) F2001: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (45 students) S2001: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays (44 students) S2000: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (102 students) F1998: English 307: Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama (20 students) S1997: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (c. 40 students) S1997: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays (c. 40 students) F1996: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (c. 40 students) S1996: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays (c. 40 students) F1995: English 201: Advanced Composition (c. 20 students) S1995: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays (c.120 students) F1994: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (c. 60 students) F1993: English 309: University Honors Seminar: Shakespeare (19 students) S1993: English 410: Department Honors Seminar: “The Abstract and Brief Chronicles of the Time” (9 students) F1992: English 307: Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama (c. 22 students) F1992: English 311: Renaissance Literature (c. 45 students) S1992: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays (c. 48 students) F1991: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (c. 36 students) F1989: English 311: Renaissance Literature (c. 40 students) S1989: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays (c. 38 students). F1988: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (c. 52 students) F1987: English 307: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (c. 29 students) F1987: English 159: Undergraduate Honors College Freshman Seminar: The Theater As the World (c. 11 students) S1987: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (c. 49 students) F1986: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays (c. 36 students) Sm1986:English 101: Composition (c. 20 students) S1986: English 311: Renaissance Literature (c. 37 students) F1985: English 201: Advanced Writing (c. 23 students) S1985: English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays (c. 35 students) S1985: English 307: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (c. 14 students) F1984: English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (c. 30 students)
As Mellon Fellow, Harvard University (1983-84):
F1983: Undergraduate seminar 16th Century English Literature (c. 8 students)
As Junior Fellow, Cornell Society for the Humanities (1982-83):
F82-S83: Undergraduate seminar Shakespeare (c. 20 students per semester)
As Instructor/Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1975-82), where in 1981 I received the "Class of '23 Award" for outstanding undergraduate teaching.
Graduate Seminars:
Renaissance Symbolic Language (2 semester course; c. 15 students)
Undergraduate courses:
Shakespeare's Principal Plays (a two-semester course; during the period when I taught the course, enrollment rose from c. 60 to c.120 students) The European Renaissance (an interdisciplinary course for the Medieval/Renaissance Collegium; c. 40 students) English Renaissance Major Authors: More to Milton (c. 40 students) Early English Major Authors: Chaucer to Milton (c. 40 students) University Honors Great Books I: Homer to the New Testament (c. 400 students) University Honors Great Books II: The New Testament to Goethe (c. 200 students) Philosophical Problems in Literature (c. 20 students) Introductory courses in Poetry and the Novel (c. 35 students) Introductory and intermediate Composition (c. 25 students)
Supervisions:
As Assistant/Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo (1984 to the present):
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, Director:
2013: Corey Werner, “O that equal Loves might inspire thee and me:” Subjective Readings of Homonormativity and the Metaphor of Love in Elizabethan Pastoral Literature, and Late Renaissance Pastoral Elegy 2011: Jaecheol Kim (Assistant Professor, Hansung University, Seoul, Korea), Staging Nationhood: Topographical Liminality and Chorographical Representations in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama 2009: Hilda Ma (Associate Professor, St. Mary’s College, California), Anatomy of Woman: The Politics of Medical Culture in Early Modern Drama 2007: Seon Young Jang, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Sexual Difference in Renaissance Literature: The Case of Three Shakespeare Plays, “Othello,” “The Merchant of Venice,” and “The Tempest” 2006: Paul Gleed, (Assistant Professor, Dickenson College), Funeral Meats on Marriage Tables: A Cultural Poetics of Renaissance Tragicomedy 2006: Dan Collins (teacher, The Nichols School, Buffalo), Lacanian Readings 2006: Kevin Costa (teacher and dean, The McDonogh School, Baltimore; education director, The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company; high school education coordinator, The Folger Shakespeare Library), Predicaments and Resolutions: A Study of Dramatic Structure in Stoppard, Chekhov, and Shakespeare 2003: Yueh-Ting Elyssa Cheng (Associate Professor, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Voices from the Margins: Working Class Mobility in Early Modern England 2002: Charlotte Pressler (Professor and Honors Program Director, South Florida State Community College), Energeia: Renaissance Rhetoric and And Poetics in Petrarch, Bale, and Shakespeare 2001: Bradley Greenburg (Associate Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago), The Transfiguring Frame: Shakespeare, Mimesis, and the Invention of the Object in Lyric and Drama 1997: Geoffrey Wilson (Brittain Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, Senior Software Engineer, F5 Networks), Renaissance Machiavellianism and the Subject of Psychoanalysis 1997: Kang Kim (Professor, Honam University, Kwangju, Korea), Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy: Contemporary Readings of History and Politics 1996: Marsha Ginsberg (Director of English, The Oak Hill School, Eugene, Oregon), Reconceiving Melancholy: Gynecological Moles of Difference in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and “Richard II” 1995: Tracey Sedinger (Professor, Northern Colorado State University, Greeley, Colorado), The Epistemology of the Crossdresser: Sexual Politics in Early Modern England 1991: Paula Bourner (Instructor, Brock University, St Catherine’s, Ontario), The Distorting Glass: Literary Representations of Women in the English Renaissance 1990: John Mischo (Professor, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma), The Economics of Desire: Patronage and Gender in the Elizabethan Sonnet Sequence
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, Reader:
2016: Molly Barger, UB Graduate School of Education, Department of Learning and Instruction. “’Something rich and strange’: Transmediation in a Shakespeare and Film Course.” My undergraduate Shakespeare teaching in academic 2013-15 provided the data for and was the subject of her Ph.D. dissertation on the development of curriculum and students from high school to college-level teaching of Shakespeare 2016: Nicholas Hoffman, Imagining Discourse: Technology, Communication, and Literature in Early Modern England, 1580-1605 2015: Sara Gutmann, Borders Maritime in Early Modern Drama and the English Geopolitical Imagination 2013: Sonya Brockman (Lecturer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Ravished Voices: Epic Transformations from Ovid to Hutchinson 2011: Christopher Madson (grant-writing and high school teaching, Boston area), Allegories of Exile: The Alienated Self in Shakespeare, Webster, Crashaw, and Milton 2009: Kristina Lucenko (Instructor, SUNY Stony Brook), “‘This soft eclipse’: Family Roles and Women Writers at the English Restoration” 2007: Rachel Greenberg (Assistant Professor, Canisius College), Transforming Women’s Labor in Early Modern Literature: Sex, Gender, Class, Identity 2007: Scott Oldenburg, (Associate Professor, Tulane University) Early Modern, Multicultural England: Literature and Immigration in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England 2006: Elizabeth Stover, Tragic Investigations: The Value of Tragedy in American Political and Ethical Life 2006: Maya Mathur (Associate Professor, Mary Washington College), Piers Plowman and Piers Pickpurse: Early Modern Drama and the Poverty-Property Debate 2001: Catharine Gray (Associate Professor, The University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign), Forward Writers/ Critical Readers: Women and Counterpublic Spheres in Seventeenth-Century England 1999: Jennifer Koch-Gibson (Associate Vice President, University Development, UB; Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations, Catholic Health Systems, Buffalo),“‘To hear with eyes’: Negotiating the Visual Metaphor in Renaissance Poetry and Drama 1996: Ian Stapley (Associate Professor, Niagara Community College, New York), Marriage as Exchange: From Chaucer to Defoe 1996: Sheila Boughner (free-lance writer/ journalist, Franklin, PA), Ethics on the Edge of Sense 1994: Pamela Beal (special assistant to the Police Commissioner, Buffalo, New York; police consultant; Worship Team Coordinator, Christ the Servent Church, Seattle, Washington), Visions of Vala: Female Shapes in Blake’s Encounter with Enlightenment Ethics 1993: Catherine Creswell (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hamline University, Minnesota; Content Developer, Creswell Content Services), Reading Subjectivity: The Body, the Text, the Author in John Donne 1992: Casey Charles (Professor, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana), Desire and the Discourses of Love in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature 1990: Howard Marchitello (Professor, Rutgers University), Authority and Authorship in Jonsonian Comedy 1990: Olga Valbuena (Associate Professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina), From Transgression to Transcendence: Cross-Cultural Representations of the Feminine 1990: Christopher Roark, deceased (Associate Professor, John Carroll University), The Wise Fool in Shakespeare: A Dramatists’s Progress 1989: Vera Piper (Professor and Chair, Erie Community College, South Campus, Orchard Park, New York), Uprooting Traditional Interpretation: A Consideration of Tree Worship in the Migration of Abraham In progress: Yu Ching (Louis) Wu, late medieval romance Jennifer Braun, women writers in early modern England Stephen Wisker, UB Theatre and Dance, Hamlet as fool
Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations, Examiner:
2014: Yu-Ching (Louis) Wu, Elizabethan-Jacobean drama 2011: Sara Gutmann, early English drama 2011: Nicholas Hoffman, Shakespeare 2009: Jaecheol Kim, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. 2008: Sonya Brockman, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama 2006: Jong Woo Park, Shakespeare 2005: Seon Young Jang, Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama 2005: Christopher Madson, 16th Century Literature 2004: Hilda Ma, Late 16th and Early 17th Century Literature (chiefly dramatic). 2004: Maya Mathur, Sir Philip Sidney and Early Modern Drama. 2004: Paul Gleed, Shakespeare 2004: Scott Oldenburg, 16th-century English Literature. 2003: Rachel Greenberg, Early Modern Drama 2001: Theresa Giron (bilingual, bicultural social service specialist, Madison, WI) Early Modern Drama 2000: Beth Stover, Classical and Shakespearean Tragedy 1999: Gregory Fowler (Instructor, Pennsylvania State University, Erie), Shakespeare. 1997: Kevin Costa, Shakespeare 1997: Catharine Gray, English Renaissance Literature 1997: Bradley Greenburg, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries 1997: Jennifer Koch-Gibson, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama 1996: Charlotte Pressler, English Renaissance Literature 1995: Kang Kim, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama 1993: Carolina Randolph Steup, Sidney, Spenser, and Their Forebearers 1993: Geoffrey Wilson, The English Renaissance 1992: Daniel Collins, History in Renaissance Literature 1992: Marsha Ginsberg, Renaissance Literature 1992: Mark Rapp (high school teacher, Amherst, New York), The English Renaissance 1991: Yu Liu (Associate Professor, Niagara Community College, New York), Shakespeare 1990: Diane Flynn, Shakespeare 1990: Tracey Sedinger, The English Renaissance 1989: Robin Appleby (private school English headmistress, teacher and development officer ,Buffalo and Cleveland), Shakespeare 1989: Paula Bourner, The English Renaissance 1989: Casey Charles, The English Renaissance 1989: Kerry Maguire (English teacher, The Park School, Buffalo, New York; California), The English Renaissance 1989: Ian Stapley (NCCC), The English Renaissance 1988: William Brown (free-lance writer, NYC), Shakespeare 1988: Beverly Sanford (Director of Publications, The Woodrow Wilson Institute), Shakespeare 1987: Linda Dunleavy (Fulbright scholar, Germany; Advisement Director, The University of Massachusetts, Boston), The English Renaissance 1987: David Johnson (Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, The University at Buffalo), The English Renaissance 1987: Myung Gu Kim, Shakespeare 1987: Olga Valbuena, The English Renaissance 1987: Mary Warrener, Shakespeare 1987: Nicole Williams (writer, Atlanta, Georgia), Shakespeare 1986: B. Cass Clarke (former Education Director, Just Buffalo Literary Center; field interviewer, Western Greenwich Associates), The Renaissance 1986: Catherine Creswell, Shakespeare 1986: Vera Piper, The English Renaissance 1985: Sheila Boughner, Shakespeare 1985: Stephen Kenney, Shakespeare 1985: Howard Marchitello, Shakespeare 1985: John Mischo, The English Renaissance
In progress: Stephen Wisker, UB Department of Theatre and Dance
M.A. Thesis, Director:
2014: Andrew Ruether, The Claim of Cleopatra 2013: T.J. Perry (manager, McKesson Corporation, health care, Cheektowaga), Madness and folly in Shakespeare’s King Lear 2011: Nicole Barrett, The Progression of Passion: The Rhetoric of Defense from John Bale to William Shakespeare 2011: Barbara Hendershott (retail professional, Oakfield, NY. MA candidate, UB Graduate School of Education), The Patient Wife and the Erring Husband: Thomas Heywood’s Domestic World 2011: Rachel Moore (legal assistant), The “peaceful bosom” and the “bloody crowns”: Nationalistic Metaphors of Mother England and the Body Politic in “Richard II” 2010: Allison Wright (Ph.D. Program, Brown University, teacher, Nardin Academy, Buffalo), Ophelia on YouTube: A Popular Culture Study 2010: Adrienne Dorman (Associate Faculty, Wayland University), On Women’s Laughter in Renaissance Drama 2010: Faith Giordano (Career Counselor, MIT), “‘Mouthed wounds’: “Corioloanus,” “Tamburlaine,” and Transformative Violence 2010: George Elfetheriades (M.A. Program, Columbia University Teachers’ College, high school teaching, Harlem and California), “’A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: A Pedagogical Perspective” 2009: David Goss, (MLS Program, UB), “‘A Most Pleasant Comedy of Musedorus’: An On-Line Edition” 2005: Heather Leonard, The Anatomy of Women In English Renaissance Literature 2004: Colleen Kennedy, (Ph.D. Program. Ohio State University), “King Lear”: Sources and Interpretations 2004: Jennifer Moore, Children’s Fantasy Literature 2004: Laura Voigt, Teaching Shakespeare 2002: Michael Votta (actor-director) co-advisor for MAH project, produced full-length play, The Kiss-Off 2001: Giann Palachuvattil (MLS Program, UB), a study of the fool in three plays by Shakespeare 2001: Avram Sachs (continued theological study) a feminist and phenomenological study of Shakespeare’s King Lear 1997: Debra Segura (Ph.D. Program, UB) on Descartes and the history of vivisection 1996: Jennifer Canfield (secondary school teacher, Washington D.C. area), on "Ut picta poesis" in Sidney and Leonardo 1992: Mark Adams (Director, Lincoln Nebraska Community Playhouse, Lincoln, Nebraska), on the new British drama 1987: Flavia Laviosa (Assistant Professor of Italian, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts), on the sources of Shakespeare's Othello and Much Ado About Nothing
M.A. Reading Lists:
2004: Lissa Piper, Women, Sex and Marriage in English Renaissance Literature 2004: Colleen Kennedy, Rape and Rapture: Myths of Power and Pleasure in the English Renaissance 2004: Michael Mautone, 16th Century English Literature 2004: Jesse Ozog, Shakespeare History Plays 2003: Erica Schmid, Shakespeare and Film 2003: Anne-Marie Schuyler (Ph.D. program, Ohio State University, Early Modern Drama
Graduate Teaching Assistants, Supervisor:
2016: Organizer of one-day graduate student conference, “Shakespeare Pedagogy and Adaptation” involving some dozen UB graduate students, faculty and community members as part of “Bvffalo Bard 2016: 400 Years Since Shakespeare” 2015: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Leslie Nickerson for lecture course in English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays (Received UB Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award, 2016) 2014: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Leslie Nickerson for lecture courses in English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays and English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays 2013: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Louis Yu Ching Wu for lecture course in English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays 2012: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Sara Gutmann for lecture courses in English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays and English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (Received UB Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013) 2011: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Nicholas Hoffman for lecture course in English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (Received UB Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012) 2010-2: Supervised graduate teaching assistant Margaret Konkol (Brittain Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology; Visiting Assistant Professor, New College of Florida) for Undergraduate Academy on Civic Engagement (Received UB Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012) 2010: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Nicholas Hoffman for lecture course in English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays 2010: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Sarah Hogan (Instructor, Drake University; Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University) for lecture Course in English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays 2009: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Faith Giordano for lecture course in English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays 2009: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Faith Giordano for lecture course in English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays 2008: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Sonya Brockman for lecture course in English 309: Shakespeare: Earlier Plays (Received UB Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award, 2009) 2008: Supervised graduate teaching assistant and grader Sonya Brockman for lecture course in English 310: Shakespeare: Later Plays 2000: Supervised graduate student teaching assistants and graders Catharine Gray and Charlotte Pressler for lecture course in English 309: Shakespeare’s Earlier Plays 1995: Supervised graduate student teaching assistants and graders Geoffrey Wilson and Lia Vella (Librarian, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines), for lecture course in Shakespeare's Principal Plays
Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Director:
2016: Amanda Kelly, “Full Measure” a modern short story and graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 2016: Taryn Rutka, “Playing with As You Like It” 2015-16: Meaghan Leigh Wessel, on Lady Macbeth and Claire Underwood from House of Cards (law school) 2014-15: Carmen Cibella on some scenes from a variety of Shakespeare’s plays converted into film scripts and mis-en-scene (MA UB English) 2014-15: Audrey Foppes on her experience interning at Buffalo’s Lafayette High School (ESL Program, UB Graduate School of Education) 2014-15: Kyli Foster on conscience in Hamlet 2014-15: Alex Hunt on color in poetry 2014: Elizabeth Teebagy (law school, University of Iowa) on Joss Whedon and Buffy The Vampire Slayer 2013: Jennifer Johnson (MA Humanities. University of Chicago), on the pretty boy in Shakespeare 2013: Cassandra Rivais (law school, SUNY Albany), on women and witchcraft in 16th and 17th century England 2012: Rachel Todd (Americorps and Clean Air Coalition of WNY, Buffalo), “Speakeasy, Issue #5” 2012: Alexander Krull, “Progressive Recidivism: Seriality, Grossman, and the New Sonne.” 2011: Emily Diem (M.A. Adult Education, Buffalo State College), “Too Hot or Too Cold—That Is the Questions!: A Humoral Study of Four Shakespeare Plays” 2011: Erin Cotter (Ph.D. English, U Texas Austin), “The Twilight series: A Study in Reader Response among Young Girls,” second reader 2010: Juliana Burkhart, feminist poetry and a commentary 2010: Kelsey Patrick (M.A. Education, SUNY Albany), “Tensions Between Heterosexual and Same-Sex Relationships in Shakespeare’s Plays” 2009: Natalie Bennett (MLS program, UB). “A Haptic Reading of Shakespeare’s King Lear” 1997: Sara Rubenstein (Ph.D. program, English, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan), on Shakespeare and Marlowe's queens 1997: Kathleen Lyons (Ph.D. program, English, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa), on Shakespeare's cross-dressing heroines 1997: Jodee Clark Wright (MAH candidate, UB) on literary genre and feminine identity in Shakespeare's plays 1993: Jessica Seabury (M.A., The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Assistant Administrative Director, Honors Program, UB), the representation of women in English Renaissance drama 1990: Tova Abosch (Ph.D. program, History, The University of Texas at Austin), on power and language in Shakespeare's second tetralogy 1989: Paul Allen (Ph.D., History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Visiting Associate Dean of Humanities, Department Chair, Language, and Culture, Salt Lake Community College, Utah), on the concept of envy and English Renaissance drama 1988: Jonathan Ellis (LLD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennesee; practicing law in the Miami area), on changing concepts of power in Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays
University Honors Program, Mentor:
2015-16: Kathryn Sands 2015-16: Lisa Gagnon 2014: John O’Brien (MA program, Urban Planning, The University of Sheffield, UK) 2014: Lexa Hunt 2013: Elizabeth Teebagy (law school, University of Iowa) 2012: Jennifer Johnson (MA Humanities, University of Chicago) 2011: Madeline Morcelle (LLD, Washington and Lee; law clerk, University of Texas System) 2010: Kathleen Byrnes (Student Assistant, UB Teaching and Learning Center) 2010: Juliana Burkhart 2009: Caitlin Tremblay (journalism, Thomson Reuters) 2008: Ghislaine Kerstead 2001- : Benjamin Cady (speechwriter, NY State Governor’s Office) 1999-03: Danielle Davis (MA program, English, UB; JET Program, Japan) 1995-99: Isabel Chungtai-Harvey (M.D., Houston, Texas) 1994-95: Maureen Lauder (Maureen Lauder Copywriting) 1994-95: Heather Shillinglaw 1993-94: Susan Marwin
Undergraduate Research Projects, Supervisor:
2015-16: Faculty supervisor to undergraduate RAs Lisa Gagnon and Kathryn Sands, who were web-mistresses, research assistants, and general factotums for “Bvffalo Bard 2016: 400 Years Since Shakespeare,” a year-long region- wide series of public humanities commemorative events 2016: Co-organizer, with Professor Carla Mazzio (English) and Ph.D. candidate Stephen Wisker (Theatre and Dance) of one-day undergraduate conference, “Shakespeare’s Afterlives: Contemporary Responses to Shakespeare 400 Years Later” involving some 30 UB undergraduates as part of “Bvffalo Bard 2016: 400 Years Since Shakespeare” 2016: Faculty supervisor through UB’s Undergraduate Academy for Civic Engagement for four public service projects—on “ReTreeing the District,” a 2-year project to plant 1,000 new trees in the University District neighborhoods; The Ability Experience; The Locust Street Art Project; and UBReUse: A Zero-Waste Initiative —at the UB annual Celebration of Academic Excellence 2015-16: Faculty advisor to major civic engagement project, ReTree the District, to plant 1,000 trees in the University District neighborhood, recruiting and supervising 2 project managers, 20+ team leaders, and some 200+ student volunteers for each of the fall 2015 and spring 2016 phases 2014-15: Faculty advisor to major civic engagement project, ReTree the District, to plant 1,000 trees in the University District neighborhood, recruiting and supervising 3 project managers, 20+ team leaders, and some 200+ student volunteers for each of the fall 2014 and spring 2015 phases 2015: Faculty supervisor through UB’s Undergraduate Academy for Civic Engagement for three public service projects—on “ReTreeing the District,” a 2-year project to plant 1,000 new trees in the University District neighborhoods; Co-Lab, a collaborative community learning center at the University Heights Tool Library; and the use of stress relief dogs during exam week at UB—at the UB annual Celebration of Academic Excellence 2015: Faculty supervisor of UB English Honors Program student Audrey Foppes’s project on tutoring at Lafayette High School at the UB annual Celebration of Academic Excellence 2014: Informal adviser to the UB English Club first annual Undergraduate Conference, on “Violence and Rrepresentation,” and faculty mentor to a session there, five poster presentations and papers on violence in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Hamlet 2014: Faculty supervisor through UB’s Undergraduate Academy for Civic Engagement for two public service projects—on preparation of FAFSA forms in two at-risk Buffalo public high schools as part of “Say ‘YES’ to Education” and on “ReTreeing the District,” a 2-year project to plant 1,000 new trees in the University District neighborhoods—at the UB annual Celebration of Academic Excellence 2013: Faculty supervisor through UB’s Undergraduate Academy for Civic Engagement for two public service group projects—on preparation of FAFSA forms throughout Buffalo’s public high school as part of “Say ‘YES’ to Education,” and on the University Heights PULL projects —at the UB annual Celebration of Academic Excellence. 2012: Faculty supervisor through UB’s Undergraduate Academy for Civic Engagement for two public service group projects—on food security on Buffalo’s West Side, and working with refugee families through Buffalo’s International Institute —at the UB annual Celebration of Academic Excellence. 2011-2: Faculty advisory to Speakeasy, A Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, UB Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender.. 2011: Faculty supervisor through UB’s Undergraduate Academy for Civic Engagement for five public service group projects—on housing weatherization and asthma control on Buffalo’s West Side, on childcare at Cornerstone Manor, on re-treeing Buffalo, and on preventing intimate partner violence on campus—at the UB annual Celebration of Academic Excellence.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants, Supervisor:
2016: Woo Wong (Tyler) Choi 2016: Colleen Carew 2015: Dylan Steed 2014: Nicholas Czekaj 2013: Victoria Robbins 2012: Margaret Murray
As Instructor/Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1975-82):
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, Reader:
1983: Gregory Lanier, (Professor, Associate Dean, and Director of Honors and Interdisciplinary Programs) University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida), Shakespeare 1982: Theresa Krier (Professor, Macalester University; Associate Professor, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana), Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. (Awarded the departmental prize for best dissertation of the year) 1981: Susan Cerasano (Professor, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York), Elizabethan theater history 1981: Janis Butler Holm (Professor, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio), Elizabethan conduct manuals for women.
Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations, Examiner:
1981: Gregory Lanier, drama. 1980: Kimberly Devlin (Professor, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California), the long narrative. 1980: Celia Easton (Professor, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, New York), the English Renaissance. 1980: Phoebe Frosch (Georgetown Law, private Investigator, Charlottesville, VA). Shakespeare. 1980: Peter Pratt (President, Public Sector Consultants, Lansing, MI), Spenser. 1979: Theresa Krier, the English Renaissance.
M.A. Comprehensive Examinations, Reader:
Medieval-Renaissance area. M.A. Proseminars, Second Reader:
Renaissance area papers.
Undergraduate Theses, Director or Reader:
Director and reader, Renaissance area theses.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Supervisors:
Supervised over 30 graduate student teaching assistants and graders for lecture courses in Shakespeare's Principal Plays, Introduction to Poetry, Great Books.
SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION (I have bold-faced activities which I believe were extraordinarily important or time-consuming, by which I mean they took me on average a full work-week—40 hours—a semester or more; I have indicated in parentheses whether the job came to me through appointed, elected, volunteer or ex officio routes) :
SUNY Buffalo:
Departmental:
2016: Organizer, “What Can You Do with an English Major” talk by Matthew DelPiano, UB English BA 1991, agent to actors Kevin Spacey, Al Pacino, Tommy Lee Jones, Halle Berry and Alex Baldwin, et. al. 2013-16: Member, Undergraduate Review Committee (elected) 2010-16: Reader/reviewer, applications to Department Honors Program (appointed) 2014: Judge, English Department George Houpt Prize (appointed) 2013-14: Advisor, Undergraduate English Club Conference on “Violence and Representation” (volunteer) 2013: Reviewer, Clinical Faculty Appointment, Jody Kleinberg-Biehl (appointed) 2011-13: Member, Composition Committee (elected) 2011-12: Reader/reviewer, Department Honors Thesis Prize (appointed). 2010: Member, Tenure Review Committee, Randy Schiff (appointed). 2009: Interim Chair, Department of Global Gender Studies (appointed). 2008-9: Member, Undergraduate Review Committee (elected). 2007-8: Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Early Modern Literature (appointed: Resulted in hires of Associate Professor Graham Hammill and Associate Professor Carla Mazzio). 2004-5: Member, ad hoc Junior Search Committee, Medievalist (appointed; resulted in hiring of Assistant Professor Randy Schiff). 2003: Organized visit of former UB colleague, UB honorary degree holder, Booker award-winning and Nobel laureate novelist John Coetzee, including library exhibit, book discussion and reading of “Elizabeth Costello and the Problem of Evil (appointed: c. 250 people in attendance, $4,500 budget). 2002-2003: Member, Graduate Admissions and Fellowship Committee (elected). 1997-2004: SEFA liaison (appointed). 2001-2002: Member, Executive Committee (elected). 2001-2002 Member, Graduate Admissions and Fellowship Committee (elected). 1997-2004 Graduate Placement Committee, mock interviews (volunteer). 1999-2001: Department Chair (elected and appointed); Chair, Executive Committee (ex officio) Chief accomplishments: Hiring of four new faculty: Professor Myung Mi Kim (effective F2002) Assistant Professor Ming Qian Ma (effective F2001) Assistant Professor Scott Stevens (effective F2001) Assistant Professor Andrew Stott (effective F2002) Hiring of two new staff: Ms. Sophia Canavos Ms. Patricia Darstein Faculty promotions: Nomination for SUNY Distinguished Professor (F2002): Professor Charles Bernstein Professor Susan Howe Professor Dennis Tedlock Full Professor: Professor James Holstun (1999-2000) Professor Alan Spiegel (1999-2000) Professor Joseph Conte (2000-2001) Associate Professor Associate Professor Carrie Tirado Bramen (1999-2000) Successful nominations for major awards: Associate Professor Deidre Lynch: SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (1999-2000) North Eastern Association of Graduate Schools Graduate Faculty Teaching Award (2000- 2001) Professor James Holstun: UB College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award. Established Department mentoring and tenure guidelines. One-time SUNY Mission Review Grant of $118,000 to enhance entering graduate student stipends for F2001. Organizing of two departmental conferences, as well as many other events: Fall 1999: “Playing at Will” Fall 2000: “The Holocaust: Trauma, Memory and Representation” (supported in part by a $2,500 grant through the SUNY Conferences in the Disciplines) Successful efforts at increasing masters level and undergraduate enrollment and adjusting curriculum to manage it. Continuing efforts toward developing interdisciplinary programs in film, journalism, and high school teaching. Continuing efforts toward the rehabilitation of our public, office and seminar space in Clemens Hall. Arranged for appropriate maternity leave for three women faculty members. Arranged for appropriate medical leave for several faculty members. Organized three major Department parties a year. 1999-2000: Organized visit of Professor Michael Berube, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, to talk about Ph.D. programs and the academic job market (volunteer). S1999: Member, ad hoc Committee to review McNulty and Grey Chairs for renewal (appointed). S1999: Acting Chair, Graduate Review Committee (appointed). S1999: Attended Council of Chairs meetings in place of Chair Mark Shechner, who had to teach at this time (appointed). S1999: Member, Tenure Review Committee, Arabella Lyon (appointed). 1998-99: Member, Executive Committee (elected). 1998-99: Member, Graduate Review Committee (elected). 1998-99: Member, Graduate Admissions and Fellowship Committee (elected). 1998-99: Chair, Search Committee, Visiting Professor, British Literature (appointed). 1998-99: Chair, ad hoc Workload Committee (appointed). F1998: Redesign and revision, publicity materials, Early Modern Group (volunteer). 1996-99: Director, M.A. program (appointed). S1998: Member, Appointment Review Committee, Ann Cvetkovitch (appointed). 1997-98: Member, ad hoc Junior Committee, Victorianist (appointed, resulted in the hiring of Assistant Professor Daniel Hack). F1997: Member, Executive Committee (elected). F1997: Member, Planning Committee (appointed). F1997: Organized visit of Professor Gail Kern Paster, George Washington University, under auspices of the Victor Johnson Fund (volunteer). 1996-98: Member, ad hoc Planning Committee (appointed). 1996-97: Organized efforts to publicize new M.A.-level course listings for high- school teachers needing certification (volunteer). 1996: Organized visit of Professor Kenneth Knoespel, Georgia Institute of Technology, in support of the Composition Program (volunteer). 1995-97: Member, ad hoc Graduate Placement Committee (appointive). 1995-96: Member, Executive Committee (elected). 1994-95: SEFA liaison (appointed). 1994: Organized visit of Professor David Bartholomae, The University of Pittsburgh, in support of the Composition Program (volunteer). 1993-95: Chair, ad hoc Planning Committee (appointed). 1993-95: Chair, Graduate Review Committee (ex officio as the Associate Chair; including 1994 revision of Graduate Program recruitment brochure). 1993-95: Member, Executive Committee (ex officio as the Associate Chair). 1993-94: Member, ad hoc Junior Search Committee, American ethnic literatures (appointed; resulted in hiring of Carrie Tirado Bramen and Sheila Lloyd.) 1993-95: Associate Chair (appointed; played crucial part in all hiring, promotion, compensation, honorific and academic deliberations and processes; coordinated Department calendar and publicity; ran several standing and ad hoc Committees). 1992-93: Member, ad hoc Planning Committee (appointed). 1992-93: Member, Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee (elected). 1991-92: Member, ad hoc committee to administer Victor Johnson funds (appointed). 1989-90: Member, Undergraduate Review Committee (elected). 1989-90: Member, Executive Committee (elected). 1988-89: Director, Graduate Admissions and Fellowships (appointed; included all details of management of graduate application pool of some 300-400 files, and of appointments of some 75+ TAs). 1985-88: Director, Graduate Admissions (appointed; including 1988 revision of Graduate Program recruitment brochure). 1985-89: Chair, Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee (appointed). 1985-89: Member, Executive Committee (ex officio as the Director of Graduate Admissions). 1985-89: Member, Graduate Review Committee (ex officio as the Director of Graduate Admissions). 1987: Member, ad hoc Summer Committee to Consider Temporary Graduate Student Fellowship Support (appointed). 1984-86: Member, ad hoc Junior Faculty Search Committee, literary theory, (appointed; resulted in hiring of Jill Robbins). 1985: Member, Committee to judge SUNY Axelrod Poetry Competition (appointed). 1984: Member, Butler Chair Committee (appointed).
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) from 1999 on: Previously Faculty of Arts and Letters:
2016 : Extra-departmental member, ad hoc Junior Faculty Search Committee, Department of Theatre and Dance (appointed) 2016 : Principle organizer of “Bvffalo Bard 2016: 400 years Since Shakespeare,” a year-long, region-wide series of commemorative public humanities events featuring library exhibits, talks and conferences, performances, screenings, and festivals. See https://buffalobard.wordpress.com/ 2016 : Organizer/administrator of 2016 UB Humanities Institute Conference “Object and Adaptation: The Worlds of Shakespeare and Cervantes” A Conference in Three Acts and Two Interludes: March 28: Act 1: “Object”: Shakespeare First Folio scholar Dr. Emma Smith of Oxford University on “Why Shakespeare’s First Folio Matters”; April 5: Interlude 1: One-day Undergraduate Conference: “Shakespeare’s Afterlives: Contemporary Responses to Shakespeare 400 Years Later”; April 6: Act 2: “Object”: Historians of the book Dr. Roger Chartier of the College de France and Dr. Peter Stallybrass of the University of Pennsylvania on “Publishing Shakespeare and Cervantes in the Seventeenth Century” and “Shakespeare’s Desk”; Interlude 2: One-day Graduate Student Conference: “Shakespeare Pedagogy and Adaptation,” featuring Dr. Amanda Eubanks Winkler of Syracuse University in a session on “Restoration Shakespeare”; October 13-14: Act 3: “Adaptation,” featuring a dozen creative scholars in Shakespeare and Cervantes study October 15: “A Shakespeare Jubilee,” hosted by Dr. Andrew McConnell Stott of UB 2015-17: Co-coordinator (with David Castillo) of Early Modern Research Workshop (elected) 1999-16: CAS Folger Institute Central Executive Committee representative (appointed) 2004 on: Member, Advisory Board, Department of Women’s Studies 2010-16: Marching and hooding faculty, Graduate Commencement (volunteer) 2012-14: Chair, Applications Review Committee, The Folger Institute (appointed) 2010-14: Member, Applications Review Committee, The Folger Institute (appointed) 2003-08: Marching and hooding faculty, Graduate Commencement (volunteer) 2004-05: Extra-departmental member, ad hoc Junior Faculty Search Committee, Department of Women’s Studies (appointed; resulted in the hiring of Assistant Professors Mariemme Lo and Gwynn Thomas) 2004: Drafted proposal, CAS Signature Center of Excellence in Early Modern Studies 2003: Organized visit of Professor Elizabeth Harvey, University of Toronto, for Early Modern Reading Group (volunteer) 2003: CAS ad hoc Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure Processes. 2003: Organized visit of Professor Crystal Bartolovitch, Syracuse University, for Early Modern Reading Group (volunteer) 2002-03: Extra-departmental Chair, ad hoc Senior Faculty Search Committee, Department of Comparative Literature, feminist theorist (appointed; resulted in the hiring of Ewa Ziarek and correlatively her husband Krysztov Ziarek) 2002-03: Extra-departmental member, ad hoc Junior Faculty Search Committee, Music Department, pianist (appointed; resulted in hiring of Jacob Greenberg).\ 2001-02: Extra-departmental member, ad hoc Junior Faculty Search Committee, Music Department, cellist (appointed; resulted in hiring of Jonathan Golove) 2000-04: CAS Budget Priorities Committee (appointed) 1999-01: CAS Council of Chairs (ex officio) 1999-00: CAS Writing Task Force (appointed) 1999: Extra-departmental member, ad hoc Junior Faculty Search Committee, Music Department, vocal musician and director of opera workshop (appointed; resulted in hiring of Nicholas Isherwood) 1993-99: Member, Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure (elected). 1997: Extra-departmental member, ad hoc Junior Faculty Search Committee, Music Department, 19th and 20th-century musicologist (appointed: resulted in hiring of Christopher Gibbs) 1992-93: Member, Future Planning Committee (appointed; this Committee met once and then was superseded in the planning process by University-wide activities) 1986-89: Member, Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure (elected)
University:
2016: Organized, in collaboration with the UB Academies and the UB Office of Equity and Inclusion, a two-day summer workshop for 30 key UB citizens on community-building and conflict resolution offered by the Anne Frank Project of Buffalo State College 2016: Helped Bill Regan, Director of UB Office of Conferences and Special Events, recruit actor and Shakespearean Kevin Spacey as a UB Distinguished Speaker, where he spoke to a sell-out crowd of 6,500 people 2016: Member, Review Committee, joint undergraduate scholarship, UB Gender Institute and UB Academies (appointed) 2014-on : Member, Review Committee, UB Advanced Honors College applications (appointed) 2011-on: Marshal, University Commencement (invited) 2009-on: Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning (appointed) 2008-on: Member, Provostial Undergraduate Academy, Civic Engagement (appointed) 2006-on: Executive Committee member, UB Gender Institute (ex officio). 2010-16: Academic Director, Undergraduate Academy for Civic Engagement (appointed) 2015: Chair, Search Committee, Administrative Director of the UB Honors College (appointed, Dr. Karen St.George and Dr. Tara Jabbaar- Gyambroch) 2015: Organizer and host, two-day residency of Civic Engagement keynoter social entrepreneur Veronika Scott 1991-15: Member, Elections Committee, Phi Beta Kappa (elected; we annually review 400+ files to produce c. 125-150 inductees). 1993-15: President, UB Phi Beta Kappa Chapter, Omicron of New York (elected; set up all Chapter activities, including periodic lectures and the annual induction ceremony) 2014-15: Member, Planning Committee, Wonder Woman/Superman Symposium, UB Gender Institute 2014 : As President of Phi Beta Kappa, in conjunction with the UB Humanities Institute, The UB Department of Sociology, and the UB Center for Jewish Thought and Study, brought Phi Beta Kappa Visiting scholar Yale sociologist Jeffrey Alexander for a two-day residency on campus 2013-14: Member, Planning Committee, Gender and Color Symposium, UB Gender Institute 2012-14: Member, Faculty, Graduate Student and Undergraduate Student Fellowship Selection Committee, UB Gender Institute (appointed) 2013-14: Member, Provost’s Taskforce on Engagement (appointed by Provost) 2013-14: Member, Provost’s Taskforce on General Education (appointed by Faculty Senate) 2013 : As President of Phi Beta Kappa, in conjunction with the UB Humanities Institute, The UB Undergraduate Academies, and the UB Journalism Certificate, I brought Pulitzer-prize- winning journalist John Pope (The Times Picayune of New Orleans) for a two-day residency on campus 2012: Presenter, UB Teaching and Learned Center Workshop, “Developing a Service Learning Course: Curriculum Design and Syllabi.” 2009 As President of Phi Beta Kappa, in conjunction with the Department of Geology, I brought paleontologist Philip Gingerich to teach and lecture on campus for two days 2006-09: Co-Chair, Women’s International Film Festival, UB Gender Institute 2007-09: Marshall, University Commencement (invited). 2003-06: Director, UB Gender Institute (Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender, IREWG) (elected and appointed). Chief accomplishments: Annual “Old Girls, New Girls” reception for new women faculty. “Gender Week”: over 2,000 in attendance at over 20 events. 8-10th Annual International Women’s Film Festival, with 6-7 films, an audience of over 1,000 people and over 30 sponsors. Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture. Biannual Graduate Student Symposium on Gender. Curriculum Development Awards for 2004-2005. Extensive Co-sponsorship. Advocacy for women’s issues and scholarship and research on women and gender on the campus and in the region. 2004: As President of Phi Beta Kappa, in conjunction with the Departments of Classics and History, I brought classicist Ann Hanson to teach and lecture on campus for two days. 2003: Reviewer, UB Interdisciplinary Research and Creative Activities Fund proposals, Office of the Vice Provost for Research. 2003: Co-Chair (with Professor Mary Bisson, Chair of Biology), Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender, Gender Week (appointed). Over 2,000 attendance at 29 events. 2002: Chair, Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender, Gender Week (appointed; the first year for this annual event, which involved some 40 individual events—speakers, teach-ins, library and artistic exhibitions, plays, music—across campus reaching a formal audience of over 2,000 people and involving a budget of some $15,000). 2002-05: Marshall, University Commencement (invited). 2001: As President of Phi Beta Kappa, in conjunction with the Departments of Classics and History, I brought historian Professor Anthony Grafton to teach and lecture on campus for two days. 2001: Platform Marshall, University Commencement (appointed). 2001: Marshall, University Convocation (appointed). 1999-02: Faculty Senator (elected). 1999-03: Member, Faculty Senate Budget Priorities Committee (appointed). 1999-03: Member, Institute for Research on Women and Gender Steering Committee (elected). 1999-03: Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Privileges (appointed). 1999-00 Assistant Marshall, University Commencement (appointed) 1996-99: Alternate, Faculty Senate (elected; served S97). 1999: University Honors Program recruitment (invited) 1994-01: Honorary Degree Committee (also Public Service subcommittee; appointed). 1992-98: Marshall, University Commencement (appointed). 1997: Rehearsed student speaker, Undergraduate Commencement. 1996-97: Member, ad hoc Writing Program Review Committee (appointed). 1995-97: Marshall, University Convocation (appointed). 1995: As President of Phi Beta Kappa, in conjunction with the Department of English and the Poetics Program, I brought literary critic Professor Marjorie Perloff to teach and lecture on campus for two days. 1993-97: Co-chair (with Associate Vice President for University Services Carole Smith Petro and Distinguished Service Professor Claude Welch), University-wide Sesquicentennial Committee (appointed; included management of budget of several hundred of thousands of dollars for 18-month celebration; I personally organized the University-wide Sesquicentennial Academic Symposium on "Does the Body Matter?", allocated funds for departmental programming, and advised on the major Sesquicentennial publication, "Fronting the Future.") 1994-95: Two recruitment presentations to area high school students for the University Honors Program (invited). 1994: Lecture on academic placement, Office of Career Planning and Placement (invited). 1993-96: Alternate, Faculty Senate (elected; served S1994). 1993-95: Member, Selection Committee, Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching (appointed). 1992-94: Graduate School Future Directions Committee (appointed; also sub-committee on Graduate Recruitment). 1991-95: Member, Curriculum Committee, Undergraduate College (appointed). 1993: As President of Phi Beta Kappa, in conjunction with the Department of Music, I brought music historian Professor Joseph Kerman to teach and lecture on campus for two days. 1991-93: Chair, Faculty Senate Committee on Student Life (appointed). 1991-93: Member, Policy Committee, The Graduate School (appointed). 1991-93: Vice-President, Phi Beta Kappa (elected). 1991-92: Member, Search Committee, University Provost (appointed; resulted in hiring of Provost Aaron Bloch). 1990-93: Member, Middle States Review Steering Committee (appointed). 1989-90: Member, President's Advisory Group on Humanities Center (appointed). 1989-90: Member, Selection Committee, Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching (appointed). 1989-90: UUP Member, Committee on Excellence Awards (appointed; in addition to participating in the deliberations, I wrote all of the official nomination letters). 1989-90: UUP Representative (elected). 1988-90: Alternate, Faculty Senate (elected). 1988-90: Chair, Curriculum Committee, Undergraduate College (appointed; oversaw major General Education reform in Arts and Sciences, documented in "A New General Education Curriculum for Arts and Sciences at UB: A Proposal from the Undergraduate College to the University," of which I was co- author.) 1988-89: Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Grading (appointed). 1987-90: Member, Elections Committee, Phi Beta Kappa (elected). 1986-88: Member, Curriculum Committee, Undergraduate College (appointed; and member of numerous sub-committees of this Committee--of the Freshman Seminar Program, of the World Civilization Program, of the Arts and Letters/Social Sciences Core, etc.). 1986-95: Senior Member, Undergraduate College (appointed). 1986-87: Member, Provost's Search and Screening Committee for Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (appointed; resulted in hiring of Vice-Provost John Thorpe). 1986-87: Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Grading (appointed). 1986-87: Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Admissions and Retention (appointed). 1986: Member, ad hoc Summer Committee on "Welcome Week" (appointed; became "September Welcome"). 1985-87: Member, Faculty Senate (elected). 1985-87: Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee (elected). 1985-87: Member, Personal Safety Committee (appointed). 1985-86: Member, Faculty Senate ad hoc Committee to Re-evaluate Incomplete Policy (appointed). 1985-86: Member, Library Search Committee, Humanities Bibliographer (appointed; search unsuccessful until the following year).
The University of Michigan:
Departmental:
1980-82: Member, Graduate Studies Committee (elected). 1978-79: Member (serving alternate), Executive Committee (elected). 1977-80: Member, Introductory Composition Committee (elected). 1977-80: Chair, sub-committee on graduate student teaching awards (appointed). 1976-78: Member, ad hoc Search Committee, Distinguished Professor in Renaissance Studies (appointed; resulted in hiring of C.A. Patrides) 1976-77: Member, Teacher Preparation and Placement Committee (elected).
University:
1979-82: Member, Independent Concentration Committee
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
2016: Summer “Conversation” through Western New York Network of English Teachers (WNYET), about how to teach Shakespeare in high school 2016: Summer teaching in mock college classes, 6th and 7th grades, for the Liberty Partnerships Program of the UB Graduate School of Education for at-risk youths 2016 on,: Volunteer work with after-school Shakespeare acting program, “Shakespeare Comes to (716)” of Buffalo west side-based “Peace of the City” 2016-17: Lead co-ordinator for a region-wide 18-month Shakespeare celebration for the 400th anniversary of his death, and 25th anniversary of UB’s membership in the Folger Institute, involving cooperation of the UB Poetry/Rare Book Collection, the Buffalo and Erie Public Library, Shakespeare in the Park and other local theater companies, the UB Humanities Institute, the UB Early Modern Research Workshop, Just Buffalo Literary Center, the Western New York Book Arts Center, local public and private highs schools, movie houses, etc., etc. 2012-2016: Trained c. 40 student Team Leaders a semester and recruited and organized c. 300 student day volunteers a semester for each of four prior phases of ReTree the District, a University Heights Tool Library and University Heights Collaborative project to plant 1,000 tree in the University District. Currently 785 trees have been planted, with the project scheduled to complete in Fall 2016. 2015: Table Captain, annual PUSH (People United for Sustainable Housing) fundraising breakfast, organizing 4 tables 2012-16: Led weekly after-hours volunteer Shakespeare reading group, consisting most of UB Honors College students 2013-16: Organizer, annual High School Shakespeare Conference, April, Nichols Academy 2013: Keynoter, High School Shakespeare Conference, “’To be or not to be’: Three Film Versions—and a Coda,” April 20, Nichols Academy 2005: “Fearless,” invitational address at the Cum Laude Honors Society induction ceremony for the Nichols School graduating class 2004: Search Committee member, new Center Director, University at Buffalo Childcare Center 2004-06: Board Member, University at Buffalo Childcare Center 2004: Board Member and Vice President, The English-Speaking Union, Niagara Frontier Branch 2004-06: Judge, high school Shakespeare speaking competition, The English- Speaking Union , Niagara Frontier Branch 2004: Member, Erie County Committee on the Status of Women 1999-01: Member, Western New York Departments of English (ex officio) 1998-99: Campaign worker for Don Van Every and Paul Buchanan, successful candidates for Buffalo School Board, at-large 1996: Member, Task Force on future of Buffalo Public Schools 1996: Keynote address, "Fearless," annual induction ceremony, National Honors Society, Amherst High School 1994-95: Campaign worker for Marlies Wesolowski, successful candidate for Buffalo School Board, East District 1993-94: Campaign worker for Helene Kramer, successful candidate for Buffalo School Board, at-large. 1993: Lecture on "The Cult of Elizabeth and the Production of Elizabethan Literature," The Menorah Campus (a residence for the elderly), Amherst, New York 1991-92: Chair, Library Committee, Campus Child Care Center, The University at Buffalo (we raised over $3,000 which I then expended on books for the library) 1991-92: Campaign worker for Marlies Wesolowski, successful candidate for Buffalo School Board, East District 1985-89: Board member, The Olmsted Home School Association (public grammar school board) 1987-89: Recording Secretary, OHSA 1986-87: First Vice-President, OHSA 1985-87: Chair, auction fund-raiser OHSA (we raised over $2000 for support of educational activities and established a precedent for other successful fundraisers)