30 Sept. 2000

EDUCATION

B.A. 1958 University of the South (English)

A.M. 1962 Harvard University (English)

Ph.D. 1965 Harvard University (English)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Fellow in English, Harvard University, 1961-65

Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1965-70

Associate Professor of English, Cleveland State University, 1970-91

Professor of English, Cleveland State University, 1991-

Literature and the Visual Arts in Tudor England. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

"Picture and Structure in The Faerie Queene." In Spenser and the Middle Ages, ed. David Richardson. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 1979 (microfiche). Pp. 131-42.

"Architecture" and "Scholarship, 1579-1932." Spenser Encyclopedia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Pp. 54-55, 628-30.

[in press] "Prints and Engravings" and "Elizabeth Hardwick." Tudor England: an Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 2000.

"Types of King David in Shakespeare's Lancastrian Tetralogy," Shakespeare Studies 18 (1981), 139-61.

"Mammon's Grotto: Grotesque Mural Decor and Spenser's Faerie Queene," English Literary Renaissance 12 (1982), 180-209.

"John Donne and the Five Styles of Renascence Art," John Donne Journal 5.1-2 (1986), 100-31.

"Some Elizabethan Allegorical Paintings: a Preliminary Inquiry," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 52 (1989), 140-66.

"'Surprising Confrontations': Ideologies of Service in Shakespeare's England," Renaissance Papers 1990, 67-78.

"Mannerism: Style or Criticism of Life?," North Central Renaissance Conference, 1975

"Spenser's Tapestries and Paintings," Kalamazoo Spenser Conference, 1976

"Forms of Patronage and Literary Form in Elizabethan England," Midwest Modern Language Association, 1978

"Allegory and Architectural Decor," Kalamazoo Spenser Conference, 1979

"Shakespeare as Mannerist," Ohio Shakespeare Conference, 1981

"The Arts in the City: London in 1600," Forum on Cultural Planning, 1984

"Ideals of Service in Shakespeare's King Lear," Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, 1985

"Ut Poesis Pictura": Manuscript Programs for Elizabethan Allegorical Paintings," North Central Renaissance Conference, 1986

"Snakes in the Art Historical Grass: Following the Linea Serpentinata from Mannerism to the Baroque," Center for Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies Conference, 1987

"Ideologies of Service in Shakespeare's England," Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1990

"The View from the Ditch--Gender, Commodity, Alienation, and Service in Antony and Cleopatra," Shakespeare Association of America seminar, 1993

"Shakespearean Death-bed Scenes and the Visual Tradition," Shakespeare Association of America seminar, 1994.

"'Any Formal Capacity'--Uses of Visual Evidence in Writing About Shakespearean Texts," Shakespeare Association of America seminar, 1995.

"Mean Streets: the Comedy of Urban Violence in Shakespeare," Shakespeare Association of America seminar, 1997.

"'She is herself a dowry': Assigning Personal Value in Shakespeare." Ohio Shakespeare Conference, 1997.

"Sociobiology and Shakespeare: the Case of Hubert and Prince Arthur." Ohio Shakespeare Conference, March 1999.

"Shakespeare and the Book of Common Prayer." Guild of Episcopal Scholars Conference, New York, November 1999.

"Luther, Cranmer, Shakespeare, and Service," Shakespeare Association of America seminar, Montreal, April 2000.

WORK IN PROGRESS

"Discourses of Service in Shakespearean England" (book)

Fulbright Scholarship, Université de Dijon, France, 1958-59

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Harvard University, 1959-60

American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid, 1968

CSU Senior Research Award (for work at the Huntington Library), 1979

Cleveland Foundation Grant for Curriculum Development, 1982

NEH Summer Stipend, 1984 (for work in England)

NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship, 1990 ("Shakespeare and Cultural  History")

British Council Prize in the Humanities for 1991 (for Literature and the Visual Arts in Tudor England)

CSU EFFRD Grant, 2000

North Central Renaissance Conference Organizing Committee Co-Chair, 1975, for annual meeting held at CSU

Ohio Shakespeare Conference Organizing Committee Chair, 1982 and 1993, for annual meeting held in Cleveland

Writer-producer, "Spin a Dark Fire, a Concert of Poetry" (Poets' League of Greater Cleveland, 1983)

Jubilation of Poets Festival Co-Chair, 1985-86

Director, student productions of The Bacchae (1979), The Cornish Passion (1981), Skin of our Teeth (1982), Troilus and Cressida (1983), Lysistrata (1984), The Two Angry Women of Abington (1988)

Poetry readings at various sites, 1975-

Editor, Cleveland State University Poetry Series, 1980-

North Central Association Review Team, 1981

Lecturer, McMaster University Shakespeare Seminar (Stratford, Ont., Shakespeare Festival), 1982

Lecturer, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, 1994.

Organizing Committee, English Speaking Union National Shakespeare Recitation Competitition, 1988

Planning Committee and Workshop Leader, Montessori Foundation Summer Institute in the Humanities for (Elementary School) Teachers, 1993

Planning Committee (Executive Committee) for Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, March 1998

Contributing Editor for the Visual Arts, Photo Editor. Tudor England: an Encyclopedia.

Historians of British Art

Modern Language Association

Ohio Shakespeare Conference, Holding Committee

Poets League of Greater Cleveland

Shakespeare Association of America

Spenser Society

Organizer, Cleveland Bicentennial Poetry Project, 1976

CSU English Department-Cleveland Public Schools Project 1975-78

North Central Accrediting Team, Shaw High School, 1980

English Speaking Union Shakespeare Recitation Project Coordinator and Judge (1986-89)

CSU Speakers Bureau, 1981-

Montessori Humanities Institute for Primary School Teachers, 1991

Board of Trustees, The Citizens' Academy (a Community School)