Charles Whitney Brief Curriculum Vitae Dec. 2016 Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV 89154-5011 702-895-3920 [email protected]

Fields of Specialization English Renaissance Literature, Environmental Humanities

Education Ph.D., English, City University of New York Graduate School, 1977 B. A., Anthropology, San Francisco State College 1969 St. John’s College Great Books Program, Annapolis Md., 1964-66

Teaching, UNLV, 1988- Graduate courses: Literary Theory, Bibliography and Methods, and a full range of courses in English Renaissance literature from Thomas More to John Milton, including special-topics courses in religion, theater, intertextuality, Spenser, Shakespeare, ecocriticism, and popularity Undergraduate courses: Shakespeare, Medieval and Renaissance Drama, Sixteenth-Century Literature, Seventeenth-Century Literature, Milton, Third World Literature, Literary Theory, Survey of Earlier British Literature, Masterpieces of World Literature, Honors Perspectives on Western Civilization

Fellowships, grants A. W. Mellon Foundation, Huntington Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, American Philosophical Society, NEH Summer Seminars (Yale, Huntington Library) and NEH Summer Institute (Newberry Library) Visiting Professor, NEH Summer Seminar, “Science and Society in Early Modern England,” University of Florida, Gainesville, 1990

Awards Elizabeth Dietz Award from SEL and Rice University, “Best Book in Early Modern Studies” for Early Responses to Renaissance Drama, 2008 UNLV Barrick Distinguished Scholar, 2008 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Selection, Francis Bacon and Modernity, 1987

Current Research Area Renaissance Literature and the Political Economics of Climate Change

Books Thomas Lodge, ed. [reprints outstanding research over the last century], Ashgate, 2011 Early Responses to Renaissance Drama, Cambridge University Press, 2006; paper 2009 Francis Bacon and Modernity, Yale University Press, 1986; German edition, Francis Bacon: Die Begründung der Moderne, tr. Hans Voges, Fischer Taschenbuch 1989

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Articles Under Submission “Reading the Anti-Establishment Present with Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate”

Selected “Shakespeare’s Early Reception and Reputation,” Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, Vol. 1: Shakespeare’s World, ed. Bruce R. Smith (print version and interactive online site), pp. 958-71 Cambridge University Press, 2016 (10,000 words) “The Importance of Climate-Change Economics: a Review Essay,” ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Environment, 15:2 (2014): 161-74 “Green Economics and the English Renaissance: From Capital to the Commons,” [As You Like It] Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now, ed. Cary DiPietro and Hugh Grady (Palgrave, 2013), pp. 103-25 “Dekker’s and Middleton’s Plague Pamphlets as Environmental Literature,” Representing the Plague in Early Modern England, ed. Rebecca Totaro and Ernest Gilman (Routledge, 2011) pp. 201-18 “Appropriate This,” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 3.2 (Spring/Summer 2008), n. p. (9200 words), http://www.borrowers.uga.edu/7156/toc “The Devil His Due: Mayor John Spencer, Elizabethan Civic Antitheatricalism, and The Shoemaker’s Holiday,” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 14 (2001): 168-85 “Ante-Aesthetics: Toward a Theory of Early Modern Audience Response," Shakespeare and Modernity, ed. Hugh Grady, (NY and London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 40-60 “‘Usually in the werking Daies’: Playgoing Journeymen, Apprentices, and Other Servants in Guild Records, 1582-92” Shakespeare Quarterly 50:4 (Winter 1999): 433-58 “Out of Service and in the Playhouse: Richard Norwood, Youth in Transition, and Early Responses to Dr. Faustus, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 12 (1998): 166-85 “Charmian’s Laughter: Women, Gypsies, and Festive Ambivalence in The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra,” The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal (XIV, 1994): 67-88 "Festivity and Topicality in the Coventry Scene of 1Henry IV," English Literary Renaissance 24:2 (May 1994): 410-448; rpt. Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook: Outstanding Articles 1994 (1995) 28: 203-219 "The Naming of America as the Meaning of America: Vespucci, Publicity, Festivity, Modernity," Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 22:3 (Spring 1993): 195-219 “Francis Bacon’s Instauratio: Dominion of and over Humanity,” Journal of the History of Ideas 50 (July-Oct. 1989): 371-90

Conference Papers 2014-16 “’Oíkonomia, Agricultural Revolutions, and Recycling with Hugh Platt 3

and Lord Hamlet,” Shakespeare Association of America Conference, New Orleans, 2016 “Repairing the World with Klein, Atwood, and John Milton,” roundtable “Plants, Animals, and the Environment,” MLA Conference, Austin, 2016 “Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: The Book and its Moment, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, Moscow ID, 2015 “Two Ways of Changing Everything: Naomi Klein and Timothy Clark,” Climate Change and Culture Conference, Prince Edward Island, 2015 “Metabolic Rift in Marx, Hamlet, and the Present,” Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Vancouver, 2015 “Renaissance Drama and Public Spheres: a Day at the Globe in 1624” [A Game at Chess], Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies Conference, Las Vegas, 2015 Temperance and John Milton’s Green Economics,” Renaissance Society of America Conference, New York, 2014

Recent Book Reviews Laura Estill, Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays (U. Delaware Press, 2015), RES, first published online Oct. 7, 2015, 3pp. Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity, ed. Jennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche (Palgrave, 2011), Early Modern Women Journal (2013): 419-24 With Amy Woodward: Molly Scott Cato, Environment and Economy (Routledge, 2011), ecozon@ 4:1 (2013): 149-52

Professional Service Executive Council, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 2001-11; Las Vegas Conference and Program Committees Co-Chair, 2001-02 Book Review Editor and board member, Executive Committee, Marlowe Society of America, 2005-11

Service, UNLV Newspaper editor and board member, Nevada Faculty Alliance Faculty Senator and Liberal Arts Nominating Committee Chair Chair, Committee to Evaluate the Provost English Dept. Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Graduate Studies English Dept. Search Committee Chair: Shakespeare, African-American Literature