CURRICULUM VITAE Albert Wachtel Professor of English Telephone: (909) 607-3641 Pitzer College Home phone: (909) 593-0901 Claremont, CA 91711
[email protected] SELECTED ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: 1978- Professor, Creative Studies, English Literature, Pitzer College, The Claremont Graduate University 1974-78 Associate Professor, Pitzer College 1968-74 Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara 1966-68 Assistant to the Dean, State University of New York at Buffalo 1963-66 Instructor, State University of New York at Buffalo SELECTED PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS: “Modernists,” CRITICAL SURVEY OF POETRY (2010). “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” MASTERPLOTS (2010). “From Conventional to Telling Metaphor—Verse to Poetry,” (SCRIBBLERUS SALONS, Feb. 18, 2010). “Performance as Critical Vision: Film as Analysis,” (THE SHAKESPEARE CLUB, February 8, 2010) “Billy Best,” “Bonnie Lovett,” 2 episodes of THE INCURABLES (Internet Movie Database, 2008). 2332, HUNTINGTON BEACH ART CENTER (Oct. 18, 2008) “Mitchell’s List-Bats Blog,” #332, NEWYORKTIMES.com Dec.14, 2007). “Darwin in the Bible,” Curtain Raisers, May 19, 2006. “The Science behind Modern Literature: A Macrocosmic Microcosm,” Transdisciplinary Studies Program, February 7, 2006. “When Comedy Turns Sour: Shakespeare’s Descent into Tragedy,” THE SHAKESPEARE CLUB, January 9, 2006. “Goddess,” THE GETTYSBURG REVIEW (Spring, 2005). “Living in and Writing About a War Zone,” Writers’ Festival, Pitzer College, Oct. 22, 2004. “Letting Go: The Limits of Magic in Shakespeare’s TEMPEST,” Landau, Germany, July 27, 2004. “Gyres of History: Yeats on the Utility of Art,” Landau, Germany, July 27, 2004. “Ur-Namma,” GREAT LIVES FROM HISTORY: THE ANCIENT WORLD, 2004. “Epiphanies: From Gods to Truth,” The Aha! Moment: Discovery, Breakthrough, Epiphany, Pomona College Symposium, April 30, 2004.