RESUME ROBERT A. ALBANO RESIDENCE 163 Chieng Feng 8 Road Chian, Hualien 97367, Taiwan Home Phone: (03) 851-1099 E-Mail: bob.albano@yahoo.com EDUCATION Ph.D. English, Purdue University, 1987-1992 Department of English, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (765) 494-3740 Major Areas of Study: Old and Middle English Language and Literature Dissertation: The Historic Imagination in Fourteenth-Century English Vernacular Chronicles Director: Shaun Hughes M.A. English, California State University, Sacramento, 1980-1982 6000 J Street, Sacramento, California 95819 (916) 454-6011 Thesis: Anthony Burgess: Dystopia Through Satire Director: Charles Gregory B.A. English, cum laude, California State University, Northridge, 1976-1978 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, California 91330 (818) 677-1200 ---- University of California, Los Angeles, 1975-1976 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024 (310) 825-4321 ---- Los Angeles Pierce College, 1974-1975 6201 Winnetka Avenue, Woodland Hills, California 91306 (818) 719-6401
PUBLICATIONS: ACADEMIC BOOKS / TEXTBOOKS Middle English Historiography. American University Studies, Series IV: English Language and Literature, 168. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1993. Lectures on English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Taipei: Bookman Books, 2000. Lectures on English Literature,Volume 2: The Renaissance. Taipei: Bookman Books, 2001. Lectures on English Literature,Volume 3: The Neoclassic Period. Taipei: Bookman Books, 2001. Understanding Shakespeare: Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet Understanding Shakespeare Lecture Series 1 Hualien: Mercurye Press, 2008. Understanding Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra Understanding Shakespeare Lecture Series 2 Hualien: Mercurye Press, 2009.
PUBLICATIONS: TEXTBOOKS available at Amazon.com (USA) (http://www.amazon.com/robert-a.-albano/e/b001ki46z6/) Lectures on Early English Literature. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2009. Lectures on British Neoclassic Literature. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2009. Understanding Shakespeare's Tragedies: Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2009. Understanding the Poetry of William Wordsworth Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2009. Understanding Shakespeare Series (individual booklets) Understanding Shakespeare: The Sonnets. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2010. Understanding Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part 1. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2010. Understanding Shakespeare: Hamlet. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2010. Understanding Shakespeare: Macbeth. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2010. Understanding Shakespeare: Othello. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2010. Understanding Shakespeare: Julius Caesar. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2010. Understanding Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2010. Understanding Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing. Los Angeles: Mercurye Press, 2010.
PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES The Role of Women in Anglo-Saxon Culture: Hildeburh in Beowulf and a Curious Counterpart in the Volsunga Saga. English Language Notes 32.1 (1994): 1-10. The Braveheart Chronicles: Depictions of William Wallace in Medieval Historical Records. Proceedings of the Seminar in Humanities at Jen Li University (1999): 1-10. Castleford s Lost Chronicle: The Historic Imagination in Yorkshire. Dong Hwa Journal of Humanistic Studies 2 (2000): 273-90. "Order Culled from Chaos: Fact, Fiction, and the Historic Imagination at Work and Play in the Brut." Dong Hwa Journal of Humanistic Studies 3 (2001): 269-321. The Earl of Nottingham's Men & the 'A' Text of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. The Marlowe Society Research Journal 2 (September 2005): 9-17. Norton s Beowulf in Verse vs. Norton s Beowulf in Prose. Taiwan Journal of English Literature 3 (January 2007): 37-52.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING Tzu Chi University, Department of English Language and Literature 701 Chung Yang Rd., Sec. 3, Hualien, 97004 Taiwan Dr. Ku, Chair, (03) 856-5301 ext. 7350 Associate Professor, AUG 2009 to present Undergraduate Courses Major Authors Shakespeare and Theater American Literature Junior Composition and Speech English Literature I Creative Writing National Dong Hwa University, Department of English 1 Da Hsueh Road, Sec. 2, Shou Feng, Hualien 974, TAIWAN Dr. Yang, Chair, (03) 866-2500 Associate Professor, AUG 2002 to JUL 2009 Assistant Professor, AUG 1999 to JUL 2002 Undergraduate Courses English Literature I Oral Training Shakespeare Composition American Literature Graduate Courses Critical Approaches to Shakespeare Topics on Shakespeare: The Comic Imagination Topics on Shakespeare: Tragicomedies & Romances Seminar on Herman Melville Seminar on J. D. Salinger Seminar on Anthony Burgess Seminar on Joseph Conrad Contemporary Fantastic Fiction Gothic Novel & Horror Literature Jen Li University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature 32 Jen Li Street, Tamsui, Taipei County, TAIWAN Dr. Lin Shih-Hao, Chair, (02) 2621-2121 Assistant Professor, AUG 1998 to JUL 1999 Shakespeare s Tragedies English Composition (Sophomores) Play Production English Literature I
Xavier University, Department of English 7325 Palmetto Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70125, USA Dr. Michele Levy, Chair, (504) 486-7411 Assistant Professor, AUG 1996 to JUN 1997 Shakespeare s Tragedies Preparatory English Shakespeare s Comedies and Histories World Literature I English Composition and Rhetoric English Composition and Literature Troy State University, Dothan, Department of English 501 University Drive, Dothan, Alabama 36304, USA Dr. Alan Belsches, Assistant Dean, (334) 983-6556 Assistant Professor, JAN 1994 to JUN 1996 Undergraduate Courses Composition and Modern English II (CAI) World Literature I, II English Master Writers I, II Graduate Courses Advanced Grammar (Transformational-Generative Grammar) History of the English Language Chaucer Milton Shakespeare s Histories and Comedies University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of English 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154, USA Dr. Chris Hudgins, Chair, (702) 895-3533 Lecturer, AUG 1992 to DEC 1993 Principles of Modern Grammar Composition and Rhetoric I Masterpieces of Literature I Composition and Rhetoric I (CAI) Masterpieces of Literature II Composition and Rhetoric II Elementary Composition Purdue University, Department of English West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA Dr. Shaun Hughes, Professor, (765) 494-3740 Instructor, AUG 1987 to JUN 1992 History of the English Language Advanced Freshman Composition Science Fiction and Fantasy ESL Composition (International Students) English Composition I English Composition II ESL Conversation (Grad. Foreign Students) ESL Composition (Grad. Foreign Students)
SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHING Granada Hills High School, Granada Hills, California JAN 1984 to JUN 1986 Chaminade College Preparatory School, Canoga Park, California AUG 1982 to JUN 1983 Robert Frost Junior High School, Granada Hills, California JAN 1982 to JUN 1982 Our Lady of Loretto High School, Los Angeles, California AUG 1979 to JUN 1980 Valley Professional School, Van Nuys, California AUG 1978 to JUN 1979