CURRICULUM VITAE. Kent Cartwright. Department of English Office: (301) University of Maryland Home: (202) College Park, MD 20742

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1 1 CURRICULUM VITAE Kent Cartwright Department of English Office: (301) University of Maryland Home: (202) College Park, MD EDUCATION Case Western Reserve University, Ph.D. (English), 1979; Dissertation: Ceremony in Hamlet, Lear, and Macbeth, directed by Robert Ornstein University of Michigan, M.A. (English), 1968 University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan, B.A. (English), 1965 University of Maryland, additional courses: Dance, ; Latin, Freshman honors; Sophomore honors; Honors College; English Honors Program; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Scholar; BA with distinction; NDEA Graduate Fellow. President, University of Michigan Union; Member, University of Michigan Student Government Council; Michigauma (senior honorary); Graduate Student Representative (CWRU) PROFESSIONAL HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK Department of English Professor, August 1999 to the present Associate Professor, August 1990 to August 1999 Assistant Professor, August 1984 to August 1990 Affiliate Professor, Classics Department, 2010 to the present Affiliate Professor, Department of Theatre, 1999 to the present Department Chair, August 2015-June 2016; July 2007-June 2012 In , Oversaw a department including: 59 tenure-track faculty members; 117 professional-track faculty; 13 full-time staff; 530 undergraduate majors, 50 MA and MFA students 97 PhD students; four graduate programs (MA in English; MFA in Creative Writing, PhD in English, PhD in Comparative Literature); two all-campus writing programs; the Writing Center; the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies; and a budget of $9.5 million Associate Department Chair, Department of English, January 2001-June 2001; September 1996-August 1998 Associate Director of English Undergraduate Studies, September 1990 to May 1993 Courses taught include: HNRS 208B: Visions of Heroism in Early English Literature HNRS 238Y: Shakespeare and Learning ENGL 205: Introduction to Shakespeare

2 2 ENGL 210: ENGL 301: ENGL 304: ENGL 305: ENGL 310: ENGL 379: ENGL 379: ENGL 379: ENGL 399: ENGL 399: ENGL 399: ENGL 403: ENGL 404: ENGL 407: ENGL 428: ENGL 450: ENGL 478: ENGL 621: ENGL 719: Love, Adventure, and Identity in Early English Literature Critical Methods for the Study of Literature The Major Works of Shakespeare Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Medieval and Renaissance Literature Plautus and Shakespeare Tudor Comedy from Heywood to Shakespeare Why Read Literature? The Presence of the Real in English Renaissance Literature (Honors senior seminar) Medieval into Renaissance Drama (Honors senior seminar) Shakespeare and Tragedy (Honors senior seminar) Shakespeare: The Early Works Shakespeare: The Later Works Non-dramatic Literature of the Sixteenth Century Shakespeare and the Idea of Comedy (Honors senior seminar) Early Tudor and Elizabethan Drama Shakespeare and Italian Renaissance Comedy Readings in Renaissance English Literature (Graduate) Tudor Drama before Shakespeare (Graduate) Recent Departmental Service Co-Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Enrollments, Member, English Department Coordinating Committee, Member, English Department Undergraduate Studies Committee, Member, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies Steering Committee, Member, Rhetoric Faculty Search Committee, Chair, Renaissance Faculty Search Committee, Mentor to teaching assistants in various 200-level courses, , Member, various departmental staff search committees, 2001, 2004, 2005 Advisor, Renaissance Studies Undergraduate Citation, Organizer, various Renaissance speaking events, Coordinator, Renaissance Faculty Group, ; Member, at different times, of departmental standing committees, including: Coordinating Committee; Personnel Committee; Salary Committee; Undergraduate Studies Committee; Graduate Studies Committee; Honors Committee; MA Admissions Committee; Dissertation Fellowship Committee Chair or member of various departmental committees for promotion of individual faculty members to associate or full professor Director or member of numerous dissertation, Ph.D. examination, MA examination, and Honors thesis committees in English; member of some half-dozen PhD dissertation committees in Theatre; currently directing one English dissertation, co-directing another, and serving on other dissertation committees University Senate Immediate Past Chair of the University Senate, Chair of the University Senate, Chair-Elect of the University Senate,

3 3 Elected Member, University Senate Executive Committee, , , , Chair, University Senate Educational Affairs Committee, Chair, University Senate CORE Liberal Arts and Sciences Committee, University Senator (representing English), , , , Chair and Member, Arts and Humanities CORE Approval Committee, Member, CORE Advanced Studies Approval Committee, Other College and University Service (selected) Member, Committee to Review the Dean of Arts and Humanities, Member, Provost s Undergraduate Enrollment Planning Committee, Member, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs Search Committee, Chair, Search Committee for Chair of Department of Philosophy, Spring 2012 Chair, Review Committee for the Director of the School of Music, Member, College Academic Planning Advisory Committee, Co-originator and Co-coordinator, A Semester on War and the Representation of War, Scheduled for Fall 2008 Chair, ad hoc College committee on Collaboration, Fall 2007 Co-originator and Co-coordinator, A Semester on Comedy and Humor, Fall 2006 Graduate Research Board, Chair, Classics Department Appointment, Tenure, and Review Committee (for promotion to full professor), Fall 2004 Chair, Classics Department College Review Committee Member, University Information Technology Advisory Committee, Member, Arts and Humanities Ad Hoc Committee on Citations, 1996 Member, English Department College Review Committee, Member, Dance Department College Review Committee, Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Humanities, August 1984 to December 1987 NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICE President, Association of Departments of English, 2015 The Association of Departments of English is the professional organization of English departments, with a membership of some 700 in the North America, under the umbrella of the Modern Language Association. ADE provides information, support, and training for departmental administrators, and its annual programs identify and discuss exigent professional issues. It publishes the yearly ADE Bulletin. President-elect of Association of Departments of English, 2014 Elected member of Executive Committee of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), January 2013 to January 2016 Nominee for President of the Shakespeare Association of America, January, 2016 Elected member of Board of Trustees, Shakespeare Association of America, Nominee for Board of Trustees, Shakespeare Association of America, Spring 2003

4 4 OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer of proposals and manuscripts for various university presses and academic journals, including: Cambridge UP, Oxford UP, Notre Dame UP, Penn State UP, Arizona State UP, U Delaware P, Fairleigh Dickinson UP, MLA, PMLA, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, Early Theatre, Mosaic, Comparative Drama, and others Outside evaluator for tenure and promotion cases at various universities, including, most recently, UCLA, York University (Toronto), University of Colorado, Boston University, SUNY Stony Brook, Florida Atlantic University, York University (England) Outside evaluator, department review, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, November 2015 CA FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE (ITALY) DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS AND COMPARATIVE CULTURAL STUDIES Visiting Researcher, Fall, 2016-Spring 2018; Fall 2013-Spring, 2014 UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE (ITALY) DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES Distinguished Visiting Professor, March 2014 UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED (SZEGED, HUNGARY) DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES Visiting Professor, February 7-18, 2005 (taught upper-level/graduate seminar on Elizabethan Drama before Shakespeare) KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, MANHATTAN, KANSAS Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, November 1979 to July 1984 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, JUSTIN MORRILL COLLEGE, E. LANSING, MICHIGAN Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science, Spring 1979 UNITED STATES CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C. Aide to United States Congressman Bob Carr, June 1976 to November 1979 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY AND THE FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY Film Project Coordinator and Researcher, February 1975 to June 1976 UTICA COLLEGE OF SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, UTICA, NEW YORK Instructor in English, August 1968 to June 1971 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS Research and Scholarship Award, from University of Maryland Graduate School, Fall 2012 (a semester-long research fellowship)

5 5 University of Maryland Representative to the Executive Committee of the Folger Institute Consortium, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011 to 2013 University of Maryland Graduate English Association Outstanding Service Award, Spring 2010 Semester Research Fellowship, University of Maryland General Research Board, Spring 2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Award for a Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe, 1999, for Bearing Witness to Tamburlaine, (chapter in Theatre and Humanism) Semester Research Fellowship, University of Maryland Graduate Research Board, Spring 1994 International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1994-present (by invitation only) Choice magazine (January 1993) award for Shakespearean Tragedy and the Double as one of the outstanding academic books of the previous year Lilly Endowment Fellowship for Second Place in the 1986 Carl Bode Award for best article published in the Journal of American Culture, presented by the American Culture Association, for Malamud s The Natural and the Appeal of Baseball in American Culture Grant ($50,000) from the Ford Foundation for a University of Maryland Institute on Literacy in the Disciplines, Co-authored proposal. Grant ($14,000) to the Kansas Committee for the Humanities for a state-wide college faculty seminar on The Value of Live Performance, Summer 1983 Honorary Member of Golden Key National Honor Society (for teaching UMd); Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society (for teaching, UMd); Eta Sigma Phi Classics Honor Society (for service, UMd); and Alpha Psi Omega Theater Honor Society (for service, KSU) FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY SEMINARS AND PROGRAMS (SELECTED PARTICIPANT) Semester-long Paleography Seminar (taught be Laetitia Yeandle), Fall 2004 Weekend seminar on The Early Modern Bible (directed by Professor Jarislav Pelikan, Yale University), Folger Shakespeare Library, September 2002 Semester-long seminar on Society and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe (directed by Professor Carlos Eire, Yale University), Folger Shakespeare Library, Fall 2000

6 6 Shakespeare Institute seminar on Shakespeare s Texts in Action (directed by Professor Michael Goldman, Princeton University), Folger Shakespeare Library, June through July 1987 Semester-long seminar on Books, Learning and the Academy in Elizabethan England (directed by Professor J. W. Binns, York University), Folger Shakespeare Library, Spring 1996 PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH BOOKS (AUTHORED) Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, x pp. Second printing, Digital edition, Paperback edition, November, Chapter 8: Robert Greene s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and the Commonwealth of the Present Moment, pp , reprinted in Kirk Melnikoff, ed., The University Wits: Robert Greene (Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, 2011). Chapter 7: Bearing Witness to Tamburlaine, winner of Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Award for a Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe, 1999 Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, xi pp. Paperback edition, Named by Choice magazine (January 1993) as an outstanding academic books. BOOKS (EDITED) A Companion to Tudor Literature. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, xxxi pp. (Thirty-one original, commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars.) Othello: New Perspectives. Edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Kent Cartwright. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. EDITION William Shakespeare s The Comedy of Errors. Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury, xxii pp. CURRENT BOOK PROJECT IN PROGRESS Shakespeare and the Comedy of Re-Enchantment. A study of Shakespeare s comedies especially in comparison to sixteenth-century English and Italian drama and in relation to elements of mystery structured into comedy. Two chapters of six drafted. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (PEER REVIEWED) The Comedy of Errors and farthest Greece, in Alison Findlay and Vassiliki Markidou, eds., Shakespeare and Greece. London: Bloomsbury/Arden, Pp (lead essay). Science Stories, Literary Stories, and the Common Core, ADE Bulletin 154 (2015): Strengthening the Undergraduate English Major: Enrollment Declines and the Problem of Attracting Students, ADE Bulletin 154 (2015): (Originally presented as a talk

7 7 at MLA, this paper was featured in a news story in Inside Higher Education, 26 January 2015). Humanist Reading and Interpretation in Early Elizabethan Morality Drama. Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Vol. 28 (2012) (Special issue in honor of Thomas Moisan; lead essay): The Return of the Dead in The Merchant of Venice. In Visions of Venice in Shakespeare. Eds. Shaul Bassi and Laura Tosi. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, ISBN Pp Introduction. A Companion to Tudor Literature, Ed. Kent Cartwright. Oxford: Blackwell, ISBN Pp Dramatic Theory and Lucres Discretion : The Plays of Henry Medwall. In The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature. Eds. Cathy Shrank and Mike Pincombe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN Pp This collection won the Roland A. Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth-Century Society for the year s best reference book on English Renaissance literature. Paperback Language, Magic, the Dromios, and The Comedy of Errors. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 47: 2 (Spring 2007): Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., William Shakespeare: The Comedies (New York: Bloom s Literary Criticism, Infobase Publishing, 2009). Reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism, Vol Ed. Michelle Lee. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, Pp Staging the Lock-out Scene in the Folio Comedy of Errors. Shakespeare Bulletin. 24:4 (Winter 2006): Surprising the Audience in The Comedy of Errors. In Re-visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Robert Ornstein. Ed. Evelyn Gajowski. Newark: University of Delaware Press, ISBN Pp Reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism, Vol. 96. Ed. Michelle Lee. Detroit: Gale Thomson, Pp Skepticism and Theatre in Macbeth. Shakespeare Survey. Vol. 55. Ed. Peter Holland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Pp Reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism, vol Ed. Michelle Lee. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, Pp The Confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as Popular Dramatist. Comparative Drama (Summer 1998): Reprinted in The University Wits, ed. Ruth Lunney. Farnham, Ashgate Publishing, Gammer Gurton s Needle: Towards a Dramaturgy of Empathy. In Renaissance Papers Ed. Barbara J. Baines and George Walter Williams. Raleigh: Southeastern Renaissance Conference, Pp The Humanism of Acting: John Heywood s The Foure PP. Studies in the Literary Imagination (Spring 1993): (Special issue on Renaissance drama and audience response.) Reprinted in Literary Criticism from 1400 to Vol. 65. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: Gale Group, Pp

8 8 Audience Response and the Denouement of Othello. In Othello: New Perspectives. Eds. Virginia Mason Vaughan and Kent Cartwright. Rutherford, N. J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ISBN Pp Sport and Dialectics in A Separate Peace. By Kent Cartwright and Mary McElroy. In Coroebus Triumphs: The Alliance of Sport and the Arts. Ed. Susan J. Bandy. San Diego: San Diego State University Press, ISBN Pp Public Fencing Contests on the Elizabethan Stage. By Mary McElroy and Kent Cartwright. Journal of Sport History (Winter 1986): Malamud s The Natural and the Appeal of Baseball in American Culture. By Kent Cartwright and Mary McElroy. The Journal of American Culture (Summer 1985): Received Second Place in the Carl Bode Award of the American Culture Association for best article published in the Journal of American Culture. Reprinted in Amritjit Singh, et al., eds., American Studies Today: An Introduction to Methods and Perspectives. New Delhi: Creative Books, Pp Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 86: Special Topics. Ed. Jennifer Baise. Detroit: Gale Group, Pp Nick Carraway as an Unreliable Narrator. Papers on Language and Literature (Spring 1984): Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol Ed. Linda Pavlovski. Detroit: Gale Group, Expectation, True Play, and the Duel in Hamlet. By Kent Cartwright and Mary McElroy. Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature (Fall 1983): ARTICLE IN PROGRESS Four commissioned essays forthcoming or nearing completion: Diachronic and Synchronic: Two Problems of Textual Relations in The Comedy of Errors, in Dennis Britton and Melissa Walter, eds., Rethinking Shakespearean Source Study (New York: Routledge, forthcoming September 2017), 8800 words (in press). Secularization Meets Wonder Woman in All s Well That Ends Well, in Katherine Brokaw and Jason Zysk, eds., Shakespeare and Secularization (London: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017), 8100 words (essay completed and accepted). Time in Shakespearean Comedy, in Forms of Time: Temporality, Genre, and Experience in the Age of Shakespeare, ed. Lauren Shohet (London: Arden Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2017), 7000 words (final version submitted). Place and Being in Shakespearean Comedy, in Heather Hirschfeld, ed., Oxford Handbook on Shakespearean Comedy (London: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018), 8,800 words (essay under contract and final version submitted). REVIEW ESSAYS

9 9 Defining Tudor Drama. Review essay on The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama, eds. Thomas Betteridge and Greg Walker (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012), and the state of Tudor drama studies. Early Theatre, 16.1 (2013): The Early Modern without Hamlet. Review essay on The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, ed. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). The Huntington Library Quarterly 67:4 (April 2004): OTHER ESSAYS, NOTES, AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES The Changing English Major and the Fate of Literary History, ADE & ADFL Connected Departments website, < March The Comedy of Errors. In The Shakespeare Encyclopedia. Ed. Patricia Parker. Collection forthcoming on-line from Stanford University Press, words. Metrics and Versification. In The Shakespeare Encyclopedia. Ed. Patricia Parker. Collection forthcoming on-line from Stanford University Press, words. John Heywood. In The Oxford Enclyclopedia of English Literature. Ed David Scott Kastan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, words. Nicholas Udall. In The Oxford Enclyclopedia of English Literature. Ed David Scott Kastan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, words. Macbeth. In The Shakespeare s World and Work: An Encyclopedia for Students. Ed. John F. Andrews. New York: Scribners, Pp Lady Macbeth. In The Shakespeare s World and Work: An Encyclopedia for Students. Ed. John F. Andrews. New York: Scribners, Pp "John Lyly. In Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Arthur Kinney and David Swain. New York: Garland Publishing, Pp "William Painter. In Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Arthur Kinney and David Swain. New York: Garland Publishing, P The Folger 1560 View of London. Shakespeare Quarterly (Winter 1978): REVIEWS Review of Kurt A. Schreyer, Shakespeare s Medieval Craft: Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2014) in Shakespeare (on-line journal), August 2015, 1700 words. Review of Lloyd Edward Kermode, Jason Scott-Warren, and Martine Van Elk, eds. Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare, : New Directions for Research, Criticism, and Pedagogy (New York: Palgrave, 2004). Renaissance Quarterly (Summer 2006): Review of Charles Whitworth, ed. The Comedy of Errors (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol. 55, no. 2 (Summer 2004):

10 10 Review of Dorothy H. Brown. Christian Humanism in the Late Morality Plays (Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 1999). Arthuriana. Vol. 11, no. 4 (Winter 2001): Review of Huston Diehl. Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997). In Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Ed. John Pitcher. Rutherford N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Pp Review of Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol, eds. Print, Manuscript, and Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000). Albion Vol. 32, no. 2 (Summer 2001): Review of Patricia Parker, Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Pp Review of Katherine Eisaman Maus, Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995). Albion (Winter 1996): Review of Grace Tiffany, Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Comic Androgyny (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995). Comparative Drama (Summer 1996): Review of Franklin J. Hildy, ed., New Issues in the Reconstruction of Shakespeare s Theatre (Peter Lang, 1990). Theatre Survey (November 1992): Review of Robert Hapgood, Shakespeare the Theatre-Poet (Oxford, 1988). Theatre Journal (Winter 1990): POEM Scoring. Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature, Spring 1984: 41. Republished in Emilie Buchwald and Ruth Roston, eds. This Sporting Life. Minneapolis, Minn: Milkweed Editions, 1987; rpt P. 76. Republished in George Plimpton, ed. The Norton Book of Sports. New York: Norton, Pp Republished in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Fall 1996): 246. PAPERS, LECTURES, PANELS, AND OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITY Is our whole dissembly appeared? : Counterfeiting in Much Ado About Nothing, keynote lecture, Italian Association of Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies Graduate Student Conference, Florence, Italy, April Italy and the Place of Shakespearean Comedy, public lecture, Circolo Italo Britannico Venezia, public lecture to an Italian-British society, Venice, Italy, February The Changing English Major and the Fate of Literary History, panel on Shapes of the English Major Today, Modern Language Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, January (The talk was subsequently featured in a news story, The Changing English Major, in Inside Higher Education, January 11, 2017).

11 11 Public Interview of Professor Shaul Bassi, author of Shakespeare s Italy and Italy s Shakespeare: Place, Race, Politics (Palgrave, 2016), at the Circolo Italo-Britannico Venezia, Venice, Italy, November Imaginative Topographies and the Agency of Place in Shakespearean Comedy, Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network conference, Budapest, Hungary, October The Merchant of Venice and the Traditions of Comedy, invited lecture, Shakespeare in Venice: The Shylock Project, Venice, Italy, July 2016 (revised) and July Creating and Re-Creating Shakespeare s Errors, seminar, co-directed with Charles Whitworth, World Shakespeare Congress, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, August Rhetorical and Performative Close Reading, with the Example of Much Ado About Nothing, paper for seminar on Close Reading, Shakespeare Association of America, March A revised version of the paper was also presented as an invited talk at the University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, October, What I Learned About Shakespeare from Editing The Comedy of Errors, invited lecture, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, January Pre-Convention Workshop for Job Seekers, panel presentation, Modern Language Association annual meeting, January 2016, 2015, The Merchant of Venice and the Problem of Comic Endings, invited plenary lecture, Jágónak 5 (conference of Shakespeareans in Hungary), University of Szeged, October Shakespeare s Much Ado About Nothing, invited public seminar and pre-performance lecture, University of California, Irvine, August Workshop for New Department Chairs, all-day workshop, co-directed (with Claire Buck of Wheaton College), ADE Seminar East, June Strengthening the Undergraduate Major: Enrollment Declines and the Problem of Attracting Students, Panel on Strengthening the Major, MLA, January (The talk was subsequently featured in a news story, Major Exodus, in Inside Higher Education, January 26, 2015). Comments on when to enter the job market, how to negotiate contracts, and how to structure CVs, Pre-Convention Workshop for Job Seekers, MLA, January Panel on As You Like It (with dramaturg and associate director), Shakespeare Theater, November Science Stories, Literary Stories, and the Common Core, panel on Story, Literature, and the Common Core, National Council of Teachers of English, November What I Learned About Shakespeare from Editing The Comedy of Errors, the University of Venice, Italy, April 2014, and (in revised form) University of Padua, Italy, April Comments on application letters, negotiating contracts, and structuring CVs, Pre- Convention Workshop for Job Seekers, MLA, January 2014.

12 12 Probable Impossibilities: The Comedy of Errors and Two Conjectured Sources, Seminar on New Source Study, Shakespeare Association of America, March Co-Director (with Pamela Brown, University of Connecticut), seminar on No Respect: Re-theorizing Shakespearean Comedy, Shakespeare Association of America, April Co-Director (with Fernando Cioni, University of Florence), seminar on Shakespeare s Romantic Comedies: Uses, Adaptations, and Appropriations, World Shakespeare Congress, Prague, July The Return from the Dead in Shakespearean Comedy, (keynote lecture), Jágónak 3 (conference of Shakespeareans in Hungary), University of Szeged, Hungary, June Reading Shakespeare Now, University of Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network conference, Dubrovnik, October Medievalism in Shakespearean Comedy, seminar on Catalysts of Cultural Change: Commemoration, Transformation and Forgetting in and through Shakespearean Texts, International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, July The Return of the Dead in Shakespearean Comedy, panel on The Language of Death in Early Modern Comedy, Renaissance Society of America, Venice, Italy, April Substitutes and Revenants in Shakespearean Comedy, International Seminar on Adaptations and Re-adaptations of Shakespeare, sponsored by the University of Bergen Shakespeare Network, Montpellier, France, October The Return from the Dead in The Merchant of Venice, invited plenary talk at Shakespeare in Venice, an international conference in Venice sponsored by the Università Ca Foscari di Venezia and Shakespeare s Globe Theatre, October Revised version given at Columbia Shakespeare Seminar, November Coasting Homeward to Ephesus: The Eastern Mediterranean in The Comedy of Errors and Pericles, International Seminar on Shakespeare and the Eastern Mediterranean, sponsored by the University of Bergen Shakespeare Network, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October Staging the Lock-out scene in the Folio Comedy of Errors, International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, August Wyatt s Thunder : Cannon, Humanist Writing, and the Execution of Anne Boleyn, Tudor Symposium, Piliscsaba, Hungary, August The Medievalism of Shakespearean Comedy, invited lecture, University of Florence, Italy, May Humanism, Tudor Comedy, and Shakespeare, invited lecture, University of Sienna (Arezzo), Italy, May Feature speaker (with theater director Douglas Wager) of The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C., November 2005.

13 13 Staging the Lock-out Scene in The Comedy of Errors, Blackfriars Conference (Staunton, Virginia), October Director, seminar on The Comedy of Errors: New Perspectives, Shakespeare Association of America, Bermuda, March The Relationship between Tragedy and Comedy in Shakespeare, invited lecture, University of Venice, April Words, Magic, and the Dromios in The Comedy of Errors, invited lecture, Szeged University, Szeged Hungary, February Featured speaker (with psychoanalyst Stephen Rosenberg), post-performance discussion of Macbeth, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C., October Chair and co-organizer (with Deanne Williams), paper session on Medievalism in English Renaissance Literature, Modern Language Association, December Comedy of Errors, 4.4, edited scene for workshop on Editing for Performance, Shakespeare Association of America, April Words, Magic, and the Dromios in The Comedy of Errors, invited lecture, Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar, New York, February A revised version also presented as an invited lecture at the Folger Shakespeare Library, March Lecture and workshop on Elements of Comedy in The Comedy of Errors, Conference on Shakespearean Comedy in Performance, University of Maryland Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, February Surprising the Audience in The Comedy of Errors, essay for seminar on Comedy and Performance, International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, August Protestantism and Newness of Life in Macbeth, essay for seminar on Protestantism and Drama, International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, July Theater and Knowing in Macbeth, Distinguished Humanities Lecture, Utica College of Syracuse University, May Also presented as invited lecture to the Renaissance Seminar, University of Delaware, November Humanism and The Early Elizabethan Morality Play, panel on The Popular and The Learned in English Renaissance Drama, Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Florence, Italy, March How Popular Was The Elizabethan Morality Play?, conference on Rethinking The Popular in Early Modern England, University of Maryland, March Learning in Love s Labor s Lost, seminar on Shakespeare and Education, Shakespeare Association of America, San Francisco, April Wit and Science and the Dramaturgy of Learning, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, January 2000.

14 14 Co-director (with Robert Knapp, Reed College), seminar on The Popular and the Learned in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Shakespeare Association of America, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March Presented paper on Bearing Witness to Tamburlaine. The Morality Theory and the Problem of Binarial Criticism, session on Medieval and Renaissance Drama, Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December Robert Greene s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: Humanist Method in Commercial Drama, seminar on Intertextuality, International Shakespeare Conference, Stratfordupon Avon, England, August The Dramaturgy of Chronology in Cambises and Gorbodoc: Bridging the Two Traditions, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November Richard Edwards Damon and Pithias and the Emergence of Suspense in 1560s Drama, Central Renaissance Conference, St. Louis, April Shakespeare and Essentialism, seminar on Shakespeare and the Subject of Ethics, Shakespeare Association of America, Albuquerque, April Secondary Characters in Marlowe s Tamburlaine, seminar on the Dramaturgy of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, April Gammer Gurton s Needle: Towards a Dramaturgy of Empathy, Southeastern Renaissance Conference, Atlanta, March The Humanism of Acting: John Heywood s The Foure PP, Modern Language Association, New York, December Gallathea, Twelfth Night, and the Drama of Ideas, seminar on Lyly and Shakespeare, Shakespeare Association of America, Kansas City, April Casting the Quarto King Lear, seminar on Casting Shakespeare, Shakespeare Association of America, Austin, April Divided Rhythms in the Denouement of Othello, seminar on Othello: New Perspectives, Shakespeare Association of America, Boston, March 1988 Playing Dead in Shakespearean Tragedy, panel on Audience Response, University of Maryland Drama Conference, Spring Tragedy and the Carnivalesque in Romeo and Juliet, seminar on Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Shakespeare, Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal, March Sport, Game, and the Failure of Innocence in The Catcher in the Rye, with Mary McElroy, American Studies Association, San Diego, November Response to Shakespeare and Sidneyan Poetics, seminar on Shakespeare s Poetics, Shakespeare Association of America, Nashville, March 1985.

15 15 Public Fencing Matches on the Elizabethan Stage, with Mary McElroy, North American Society for Sport History, Louisville, May Respondent, seminar on The Actor as Critic in the Age of the Actor-Manager, Shakespeare Association of America, Cambridge, April The Contradiction of Othello, statewide humanities seminar on The Value of Live Performance, Kansas Committee for the Humanities and Kansas State University, Manhattan, July Sport Literature, Literary Criticism, and Historical Inquiry, with Mary McElroy, North American Society for Sport History, Manhattan, Kansas, May Nick Carraway as an Unreliable Narrator, conference on F. Scott Fitzgerald: St. Paul s Native Son and Distinguished American Writer, University of Minnesota, October Researcher for theatrical iconography and stage history, The Staging of Shakespeare (film), Case Western Reserve University, Researcher for musical iconography, Harpsichord Making in America (film), Case Western Reserve University, OTHER PUBLICATIONS The Memory of Hamlet, Aside Magazine, Shakespeare Theater, Washington, D. C., Summer, words. Macbeth, Aside Magazine, Shakespeare Theater, Washington, D. C., Fall, 2004, 3000 words. Editor, Arts and Humanities magazine, University of Maryland, The Freedom of Dance, McCain Spotlight, Spring Editor, A&S Magazine, Kansas State University, Monitoring the Public Mood, K-Stater Magazine, March Review of William Ihlandfeldt s Achieving Optimal Enrollments and Tuition Revenue, CCAS Newsletter, October Of Literary Merit, K-Stater Magazine, March Shepherds, Dwarfs, and Computers, K-Stater Magazine, March Review of Saul Bellow s Mr. Sammler s Planet, Quartet Magazine, Spring PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network International Shakespeare Association International Shakespeare Conference Marlowe Society of America Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society Modern Language Association Renaissance Society of America Shakespeare Association of America Nominee for President, 2016 Board of Trustees, Sixteenth-Century Studies Association South Atlantic Modern Language Association Chair, Renaissance Discussion Circle, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, ; member, Executive Committee,

16 16 Southeastern Renaissance Conference Tudor Symposium OTHER ACTIVITIES Performer (dance): Doris Humphrey s The Shakers, Univ. of MD Dance Department Concert, November 1990; choreography of Susan Haigler de Robles, Univ. of MD Dance Department Showing, December, 1987; Variations III, Twentieth Century Concerts, College Park and Washington, D.C., Fall 1986; Susan Warden Dancers, concert, Manhattan, Kansas, February 1984; choreography of Jean Dickinson, concert, Manhattan, Kansas, Spring Chair, Board of Directors, Maryland Dance Theater, College Park, Maryland, 1985 to President, Board of Directors, Susan Warden Dancers, Manhattan, Kansas, 1983 to Executive Board, Association of Community Arts Agencies of Kansas, 1983 to Board of Directors, Boars Head Theatre, Lansing, Michigan, 1977 to Assistant Director, The Royal Family, Okemos Barn Theatre, March Revised 8 April 2017