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
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