Dr. David A. Richardson

Introduction

David A. Richardson is a Professor of English who has taught at CSU since September 1973. He did his undergraduate work at Kansas State in pre-medicine and graduate work at North Carolina in Renaissance non-dramatic literature. During the 1980's, he initiated and was managing editor of The Spenser Encyclopedia (1990). He likes rhetoric and biography, and edited volumes on 16th-c. British nondramatic writers for the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

At CSU, he directs the B.A. program in Liberal Studies and is helping to build an academic bridge from downtown Cleveland to Lorain County Community College. He has great faith in his students' ability to inform creative lives with a liberal education.

Office address:
Department of English
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH 44115 U.S.A.
Tel. (216) 687-3961
FAX (216) 687-6943
E-mail: d.richardson@csuohio.edu

Education

1967 M.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Thesis: "Fame and Fulke Greville," directed by William Wells

1965 B.A. Kansas State University, Manhattan
Magna cum laude in humanities, with background in science and pre-medicine (Honors Program, Phi Kappa Phi, Blue Key, Putnam Scholar, GE Quiz Bowl, president of Phi Eta Sigma)

Employment:

1970-73 Case Western Reserve University
Assistant Professor of English (1970-73)

1968-70 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Instructor of English (faculty, 1969-70)
Graduate assistant (1968)

Publications:

1996 "Fair Allurements to Learning: The Legacy of a Professing Teacher," invited essay on pedagogy in Classical, Renaissance, and Postmodernist Acts of the Imagination, ed. Arthur F. Kinney, U of Delaware P. 18-23 (Festschrift for O. B. Hardison, Jr.)

1996 Co-editor, Spenser and the Subject of Biography. With Judith H. Anderson and Donald Cheney. Amherst: U of Massachussetts P

1996 Editor, Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers, Fourth Series. Vol. 172 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Detroit, Washington, D.C., and London: Gale Research

1996 Editor, Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers, Third Series. Vol. 167 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Detroit, Washington, D.C., and London: Gale Research

1994 Editor, Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers, Second Series. Vol. 136 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Detroit, Washington, D.C., and London: Gale Research

1993 Editor, Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers, First Series. Vol. 132 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Detroit, Washington, D.C., and London: Gale Research

1990 Initiator and managing editor (1978-1990), The Spenser Encyclopedia. Toronto: U of Toronto P (corrected paperbound edition April 1997)

1978 "Duality in Spenser's Archaisms," Studies in the Literary Imagination, 11.1:81-98

1978 "The Golden Mean in Campion's Airs," Comparative Literature, 30.2:108-32

1976-79 Spenser at Kalamazoo, initiator and editor, microfiche proceedings (4 volumes)

1976 "Humanistic Intent in Surrey's Aeneid," English Literary Renaissance, 6:204-19

Course Taught at Cleveland State University:

• 1973-79 (tenure date):
  • Freshman English (Eng 102)
  • Utopian Literature (FST 141)
  • Myths and Mythology (FST 141 and 241)
  • Experience of Drama (Eng 213)
  • Experience of Fiction (Eng 215)
  • Advanced Expository Writing (Eng 304)
  • Renaissance in England I (Honors Eng 323), II (Eng 324)
  • Age of Johnson (Eng 325)
  • Modern Poetry (FST 341)
  • Renaissance Lyrics (Eng 352)
  • Pre-Shakespearean Drama (Eng 365)
  • Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (Eng 365)
  • City in Literature (Eng 383/593)
  • Spenser (Eng 374)
  • Renaissance Drama (Eng 433/533)
  • Pastoral Literature (Eng 434)
• 1979-present:
  • Freshman English (Eng 102)
  • Intermediate Expository Writing (Eng 201)
  • Writing about Literature: Tragedy (Eng 220)
  • Experience of Poetry (Eng 211, ENG 240, FST 241)
  • British Literature Survey, Origins to 1789 (Eng 281, 321)
  • British Literature Survey, 1660-1830 (Eng 322)
  • Writing about Literature (Eng 300, 304)
  • Introduction to Renaissance Literature (Eng 322)
  • Tudor Literature (Eng 331)
  • Stuart and Commonwealth Literature (Eng 332)
  • 18th-Century British Fiction (Eng 350)
  • Shakespeare's Comedies & Romances (Eng 371)
  • Rhetoric & the Renaissance (Eng 400/545)
  • Shakespeare Authorship Controversy (ENG 102/373/400/512)
  • Biography & the Renaissance (Eng 412/590)
  • Spenser & Milton: Poets of Praise (Eng 412/545)
  • Milton (Eng 374)
  • Independent studies (biographies of Thomas More; Spenser & numerology; Shakespeare and quantitative stylistics, Milton & rhetoric; non-fiction writing; editing)

• 1973-79 (tenure date) (3):
  • City in Literature (Eng 383/593)
  • Renaissance Drama (Eng 433/533)
  • Eighteenth-Century Studies (Eng 561)
• 1979-present (6):
  • Rhetoric & the Renaissance (Eng 400/545)
  • Spenser & Milton: Poets of Praise (Eng 412/545)
  • Biography & the Renaissance (Eng 412/590)
  • Introduction to Research & Bibliography (Eng 512)
  • Shakespeare Authorship Controversy (ENG 400/512)
  • Spenser Seminar (Eng 585, 640)

Grants and Awards

1998 $1,325 Cleveland State University

1997 $3,200 Cleveland State University

1996 $1,400 Cleveland State University

1995 $2,005

• 1,500 Research and Creative Activities award, Cleveland State University
• 505 NEH/Folger Institute Grant-in-Aid

1992 $4,000 NEH Summer Stipend

1991 $343 NEH/Folger Institute Grant-in-Aid

1990 [Gifts-in-kind: $20,000+]

1987 $24,246

• 12,000 Research Challenge Award (Ohio Board of Regents)
• 6,800 CSU Graduate College
• 2,655 NEH Interpretive Research
• 2,155 NEH additional match
• 636 gifts from individuals

1986 $97,102

• 17,702 NEH Interpretive Research
• 3,000 CSU Graduate College
• 1,400 CSU Graduate College
• 50,000 Ohio Regents' Research Challenge + NEH Research Tools
• 20,000 David & Inez Meyers Foundation + NEH Research Tools
• 2,000 Huntington National Bank + NEH Research Tools
• 3,000 Open Society Fund

1985 $154,650

• 114,000 NEH Research Tools
• 28,690 NEH Research Tools
• 10,000 gifts from individuals and foundations
• 1,960 IREX Special Travel Grant for Collaborative Activities and New Exchanges

1984 $92,500

• 90,000 Cleveland Foundation + NEH Research Tools
• 2,500 IREX Special Grant for Collaborative Activities and New Exchanges

1983 $257,681 NEH Research Tools

1982 $2,000 NEH Research Tools

1980 $246,836

• 245,636 NEH Research Tools
• 1,200 CSU Graduate College Senior Research Expense Award

1979 $750 Junior Fellowship, Southeastern Institute of Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Chapel Hill, NC

1978 $3,405

• 2,500 CSU Graduate College Senior Scholar Award
• 905 NEH Conference Grant

1976 $2,500 NEH Summer Teacher's Award

Also Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship 1969, NDEA Graduate Fellowship 1965-68, Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellow 1965

Personal Interests: