Barbara j. Bono

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”:

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,”

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, 16^th 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

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

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

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 16^th

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

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

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.

2016: Colleen Carew

2015: Dylan Steed

2014: Nicholas Czekaj

2013: Victoria Robbins

2012: Margaret Murray

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.

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).

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  Hiring of four new faculty:
  

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  Hiring of two new staff:
  

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  Faculty promotions:
  

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  Successful nominations for major awards:
  

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  Established Department mentoring and tenure guidelines.
  
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  One-time SUNY Mission Review Grant of $118,000 to enhance
  

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  Organizing of two departmental conferences, as well as many other events:
  

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  Successful efforts at increasing masters level and undergraduate enrollment and adjusting curriculum to manage it.
  
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  Continuing efforts toward developing interdisciplinary programs in film, journalism, and high school teaching.
  
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  Continuing efforts toward the rehabilitation of our public, office and seminar space in Clemens Hall.
  
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  Arranged for appropriate maternity leave for three women faculty members.
  
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  Arranged for appropriate medical leave for several faculty members.
  
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  Organized three major Department parties a year.
  

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

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).