Thomas Cartelli

Tom Cartelli was born in the Bronx in 1951 and educated at Syracuse University, Bennington College and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Cartelli started out as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Emory University and later taught graduate seminars at Columbia, Lehigh, the Folger Institute, and the Breadloaf School of English in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and undergraduate courses at NYU and Lafayette College. He spent most of his professional career teaching a wide array of literature, theater and film studies courses at Muhlenberg College, researching and writing books and articles largely centered on the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, though often focused on their postcolonial appropriations and cinematic and theatrical afterlives. He continues to reside with his wife and fellow Renaissance scholar Jacqueline Miller near the small Delaware River town of Milford in far western New Jersey. He has assembled this website to display and make available to interested others a selective archive of his scholarly publications, viewing notes for the many foreign-language films he has taught, slimmer pickings of the comparatively few poems and transcriptions he has composed, and a miscellaneous collection of images that will likely mean more to him and his closest friends and family than to anyone else who scrolls through them. Much as he personally disapproves of T.S. Eliot, he would like this archive’s testament to read “These fragments I have shored against my ruins.”