Thomas Cartelli
Professor Emeritus of English and Film Studies
Muhlenberg College
Contact
34 Hickory Corner Road
Milford, New Jersey 08848
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Cell: 908-528-3023
Education
1979 Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz
Dissertation: Marlowe’s Theater: The Limits of Possibility (Director, C.L. Barber)
1975 M.A., University of California at Santa Cruz
1973 B.A., Bennington College
Academic Employment
2022-2008 Professor of English and Film Studies, Muhlenberg College
2018-2017 Class of ’32 Research Professor, Muhlenberg College
2010-2009 Class of ’32 Research Professor, Muhlenberg College
Summer, 2009 Professor, Bread Loaf School of English—New Mexico
2008-2003 NEH Professor of Humanities, Muhlenberg College
Fall, 2007 Adjunct Professor, Gallatin School, New York University
Fall, 2006 LVAIC Consortial Professor, Lafayette College
2003 – 1989 Professor (1992) & Chair, Department of English;
Coordinator, NEH Humanities Seminar, Muhlenberg College
Fall, 2001 LVAIC Consortial Professor, Lehigh University
1993-1992 Class of ’32 Research Professor, Muhlenberg College
1992 – 1986 Associate Professor of English and Chair of Humanities Division Muhlenberg College
Spring, 1989 Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University
1986 – 1980 Assistant Professor of English, Muhlenberg C.
1980 – 1979 Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Emory University
Fields of Study
| Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama / Postcolonial Literature / Transnational Literature and Film / Experimental Theater | History and Theory of Performance / Global Cinema Studies / Adaptation theory / Caribbean Writing |
Books
Reenacting Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath: The Intermedial Turn & Turn to Embodiment. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Reviewed Shakespeare Studies, XLVIII (2020): 248-254; Shakespeare 16:1 (2020): 113-15; Shakespeare Survey 73 (2020): 266; Shakespeare Quarterly 73:3-4 (2022): 354-56.
New Wave Shakespeare on Screen. Co-authored with Katherine Rowe. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007. Reviewed SEL 49:2 (2009): 527; Shakespeare Survey, 61 (2008): 383-4; Shakespeare Quarterly, 59:2 (2008): 230-2.
Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. London: Routledge, 1999. Reviewed TLS, 11-19-99: 18-19; Textual Practice, 14:1 (2000): 155-63, esp. 160-2; ARIEL, 31: 1 & 2 (2000): 438-440; Theatre Research International, 25:3 (2000): 297-98; Symploke, 8:1-2 (2000): 225-6; MaRDiE, 14 (2001): 259-64; SQ 52: 2 (2001): 306-8, SRASP, 24 (2001): 77-79.
Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Awarded Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe (1991). Named a Choice Outstanding Book (1991-92). Reviewed: Times Higher Ed. Supp., 10-9-92; SEL 33:2(1993): 427-30; Theatre Res. Intl. 18:1 (1993): 61-62; SQ 43:4 (1992): 486-89; Choice, June, 1992; MSA Book Reviews 12:2 (1993): 2-4; Year’s Work in English Studies 72 (1991): 163, 193, 201.
Scholarly Editions
Editor, single-text print and electronic editions of 1597 quarto & 1623 folio printings of Richard III, Stephen Greenblatt, gen. ed., Norton Shakespeare 3 (2015).
Editor, Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s Richard III. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.
Contributing Editor, Introduction to Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Norton Anthology of Drama, v. 1. Ellen Gainor, et al, gen. eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
Editor, William Shakespeare, Richard II. New York: Barnes & Noble. Commissioned and completed; series discontinued.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Medium Specificity, Medium Convergence and Aliveness in the Chromakey (2018) & Big Telly Zoom (2020) Macbeths.” In Danielle Rosvally & Donovan Sherman, ed. Early Modern Liveness: Immediacy and Presence in Text, Stage, and Screen. London: Bloomsbury, 2023, 261-86.
“Tele-Performatively Yours: Deformation, Distraction, and Meaning-Making in Three Recorded Works of Elizabeth LeCompte & The Wooster Group.” In Claudia Orenstein & James Peck, ed. Great North American Stage Directors, Vol 7: Elizabeth LeCompte, Ping Chong, Robert Lepage: Multi-Media Interrogations,London: Bloomsbury, 2021, 46-81.
“’Aspice spectator sic me docuere parentes’: Aesthetico-Political Misprision in John Derricke’s Image of Irelande (1581).” In Thomas Herron, Denna Iammarino, and Maryclaire Moroney. John Derricke’s The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne: Essays on Text and Context. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021, 274-85.
“’Marvelously Changed’: Shakespeare’s Repurposing of Fiorentino’s Doting Godfather in The Merchant of Venice.” In Lindsay Kaplan (ed), The Merchant of Venice: The State of Play, Bloomsbury, 2019, 195-215.
“High Tech Shakespeare in a Mediatized Globe: Ivo van Hove’s Roman Tragedies and the Problem of Spectatorship,” in James Bulman (ed), The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare and Performance, Oxford UP, 2018, 267-83.
“The Speaking Silence of Citizens in Shakespeare’s Richard III: Hidden and Public Transcripts,” in Chris Fitter (ed), Shakespeare & the Politics of Commoners:Rethinking the Plays with the New Social History, Oxford UP, 2018, 102-23.
“Essentializing Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath: Dmitry Krymov’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (As You Like It), Matias Piñeiro’s Viola, and Annie Dorsen’s A Piece of Work: a machine-made Hamlet,” #Bard: Shakespeare & the History of Media, a special issue of Shakespeare Quarterly, 67:4 (2017): 431-456.
“Visual Projections,” in Bruce R. Smith (gen. ed.), The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 2:1467-1474.
“’State of Exception’: Forgetting Hamlet,” Afterword, in Alexa Huang & Elizabeth Rivlin (eds), Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation, New York: Palgrave, 2014, 211-20.
“Spying into Abuses.” Expert commentary for Shakespeare’s Othello for iPad, dir. Lauren Shohet, Luminary Digital Media, Fall, 2013.
“Marlowe and Shakespeare Revisited,” in Emily Bartels & Emma Smith (eds), Marlowe in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 285-95.
“’The Killing Stops Here’: Unmaking the Myths of Troy in the Wooster Group/RSC Troilus & Cressida (2012),” Shakespeare Quarterly 64:2 (2013): 233-43.
“Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More: Masks, Unmaskings, One-on-Ones,” Borrowers & Lenders: the Journal of Shakespeare & Appropriation, 7:2 (2012/2013). http://www.borrowers.uga.edu/316/show
“From First Encounter to ‘Fiery Oven’: the Effacement of the New England Indian in Mourt’s Relation and Histories of the Pequot War,” in Jonathan Gil Harris, ed., Indography. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012, 82-101.
“The Spell of the West in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land,” in David Buyze & Mehnaz Mafridi. eds., Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012, 176-193.
“Beyond the Pale: Difference and Disorder in Sir Henry Sidney’s Memoir of Service in Ireland and John Derricke’s Image of Irelande (1581),” Shakespeare International Yearbook 11 (2011): 149-176.
“What Wrote Woodstock,” in Janet Starner & Barbara Traister, (eds), Anonymity in Early Modern England. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2011, 83-98.
“Doing It Slant: Reconceiving Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath,” Shakespeare Studies XXXVIII (2010): 26-36.
“Redistributing Complicities in an Age of Digital Production: Michael Radford’s Film-Version of The Merchant of Venice,” in Nina Levine and David Miller (eds), A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr. and the Arts of Interpretation. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009, 58-73.
“Channeling the Ghosts: the Wooster Group’s Remediation of the 1964 Electronovision Hamlet,” Shakespeare Survey, 61 (2008): 147-160.
“The Face in the Mirror: Joyce’s Ulysses and the Lookingglass Shakespeare,” in Craig Dionne & Parmita Kapadia, (eds), Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008, 19-36
“Julie Taymor’s Titus in Time and Space: Surrogation and Interpolation,” Renaissance Drama, N.S. 34 (2006): 163-184.
“Surviving Shakespeare: Kristian Levring’s The King is Alive” (co-authored with Katherine Rowe), Borrowers & Lenders: the Journal of Shakespeare & Appropriation, 1.2 (2005).
“Edward II.” In Patrick Cheney, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004, pp. 158-173.
“Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI.” In Richard Dutton and Jean Howard, eds. A Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare, v. 1. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 325-343.
“Shakespeare and the Street: Pacino’s Looking for Richard, Bedford’s The Street King, and the Common Understanding.” In Richard Burt and Lynda Boose, eds. Shakespeare the Movie II. New York & London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 186-199.
“Shakespeare in Pain: Edward Bond’s Lear and the Ghosts of History,” Shakespeare Survey, 55 (2002): 159-69.
“King Edward’s Body.” In Richard Wilson, ed. Christopher Marlowe. Longman Critical Readers. London: Longman, 1999, 174-90.
“Queer Edward II: Postmodern Sexualities and the Early Modern Subject.” In Paul W. White, ed. Marlowe, History,and Sexuality: New Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe. New York: AMS Press, 1998, 213-23. Reprinted in Avraham Oz, ed., Marlowe: Contemporary Critical Essays (New York: Palgrave, 2003), pp. 200-12.
“Transplanting Disorder: the Construction of Misrule in Morton’s New English Canaan and Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation.” English Literary Renaissance, 27:2 (1997): 258-80.
“Marlowe and the New World.” In Darryl Grantley and Peter Roberts, eds. Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture. Scolar Press, 1996, 110-18.
“After The Tempest: Shakespeare, Postcoloniality, and Michelle Cliff’s New, New World Miranda.” Contemporary Literature, 36:1 (1995): 82-102.
“Jack Cade in the Garden: Class Consciousness and Class Conflict in 2 Henry VI.” In Richard Burt and John M. Archer (eds) Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property and Culture in Early Modern England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994, 48-67.
“Shakespeare’s Merchant, Marlowe’s Jew: The Problem of Cultural Difference,” Shakespeare Studies, XX (1988): 255-60.
“Endless Play: The False Starts of Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta,” in “A Poet and filthy Playmaker”: New Essays on Christopher Marlowe, eds., Friedenreich, Gill, & Kuriyama. New York: AMS Press, 1988, 117-128. Rep. as “Machiavel’s Ghost” in Emily Bartels, ed. Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe. New York: G.K. Hall, 1997, 59-70.
“Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as Colonialist Text and Pretext,” in Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology, Jean Howard and Marion O’Connor, eds., London: Methuen [Routledge], 1987, 99-115.
“Ideology and Subversion in the Shakespearean Set Speech,” ELH, 53:1 (1986): 1-25.
“The Unaccommodating Text: The Critical Situation of Timon of Athens,” Bucknell Review, 29:2 (1985), 81-105.
“Bartholomew Fair as Urban Arcadia: Jonson Responds to Shakespeare,” Renaissance Drama, N.S. XIV (1983): 151-172.
“Banquo’s Ghost: The Shared Vision,” Theatre Journal, 35:3 (1983): 389-405 [“Poetics of Theatre” issue].
“Shakespeare’s ‘Rough Magic’: Ending as Artifice in All’s Well That Ends Well,” Centennial Review, XXVII:2 (1983): 117-134. Rep. in Dana Barnes, ed. Shakespearean Criticism. Vol. 38, Gale Research, 1998.
Reviews
James Shapiro, Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future. New York: Penguin Press, 2020. Shakespeare Studies, XLIX (2021): 332-36.
Ewan Fernie, Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017. Shakespeare Studies
Margaret Jane Kidnie. Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation. London & New York: Routledge, 2009. Shakespeare Studies XXXVIII (2010): 218-24.
Diana Henderson. Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. Comparative Drama 41:2 (2007).
Kim C. Sturgess. Shakespeare and the American Nation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Clio, 35:2 (2006): 275-80.
Bryan Reynolds. Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Theater Journal 57:2 (2005): 329-31.
Jonathan Hart. Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Shakespeare Quarterly 54:3 (2003): 326-28.
Patrick Cheney. Marlowe’s Counterfeit Profession. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1997. MaRDiE, 13 (2000): 254-59.
Richard Halpern. Shakespeare Among the Moderns. Ithaca & London: Cornell Univ. Press, 1997. Shakespeare Bulletin, 17:1 (1999): 43-4.
David Johnson. Shakespeare and South Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Shakespeare Studies, XXVI(1998): 376-82 (review essay).
Jonathan Goldberg. Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1992. MSA Book Reviews, 14:1 (1995): 3-4.
Jeffrey Knapp, An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest, Berkeley & Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1992. Shakespeare Quarterly 45:3 (1994): 371-73.
John D. Cox, Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1989. Modern Philology 88:4 (1991): 433-36.
Michael Bristol, Carnival and Theater: Plebeian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England, New York & London: Methuen, 1985. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England IV (1989): 229-231.
C.L. Barber and Richard Wheeler, The Whole Journey: Shakespeare’s Power of Development, Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1986, and Peter Erickson and Coppelia Kahn, eds., Shakespeare’s “Rough Magic”: Essays in Honor of C.L. Barber, Newark, DL: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1985. Shakespeare Studies XX (1988): 283-88.
Thomas Pavel, The Poetics of Plot: The Case of English Renaissance Drama, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1985. Bulletin of the New York Shakespeare Society 3:6 (1985): 23.
Jonathan Dollimore, Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984. Marlowe Society of America Book Reviews, 4:1 (1985): 1-3. Review of productions of Timon of Athens at Drew University and of Macbeth at “The Mount” in Lenox, MA. In Theatre Journal 35:2 (1983): 253-56.
Work in Progress
Book: Producing Disorder: the Construction of Misrule in Early Modern England, New England, and Ireland
Articles: “Uncanny Resurgence: the Othello Complex Reconfigured in Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017)”
Invited Talks & Lectures:
“Homini Homo Lupus: Silvano Arieti and Giorgio Agamben on the Wolf in Man” at “The Library of Memory,” a 2-day symposium sponsored by The Center for the Humanities and Social Change, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, 19-20 September 2019. Symposium organized in collaboration with “psalm,” Edmund de Waal’s two-part installation at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale.
“Uncanny Resurgence: the Othello Complex Reconfigured in Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017),” Shakespeare on Screen in the Digital Era, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France, 26-28 September, 2019.
“Uncanny Resurgence: the Othello Complex Reconfigured in Jordan Peele’s Get Out
(2017),” an invited paper contributed to a research seminar on First Person Shakespeare, annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, April, 2019, Washington, DC.
“’The Breath of Kings’: Shakespeare’s Richard II and the Marlowe Aftermath,” Colloquium on Political Theology and Shakespeare’s Richard II, Kingston University, Kingston, UK, March 2018.
“’Tainted Wether of the Flock’: Shakespeare’s Repurposing of Fiorentino’s Doting Godfather in The Merchant of Venice,” panel session on The Merchant of Venice World Shakespeare Congress, Stratford-upon-Avon, August, 2016.
“’Tainted Wether of the Flock’: Shakespeare’s Repurposing of Fiorentino’s Doting Godfather in The Merchant of Venice,” talk delivered as part of “The Shylock Project,” a 2-week summer school, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy, July, 2016.
“Aspice spectator sic me docuere parentes”: Aesthetico-Political Misprision in John
Derricke’s Image of Irelande (1581),” symposium on Derricke’s Image of Irelande & Early Modern Ireland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, May, 2016.
“’Tainted Wether of the Flock’: Shakespeare’s Repurposing of Fiorentino’s Doting Godfather in The Merchant of Venice,” talk delivered as part of “The Shylock Project,” a 4-week interdisciplinary seminar, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy, June, 2015.
“The Speaking Silence of Citizens in Shakespeare’s Richard III,” symposium on “Rethinking Shakespeare in the Social Depth of Politics,” Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, April, 2015.
“Playing the Cut: Shakespeare Staged Three Ways in Annie Dorsen’s A Piece of Work, Dmitry Krymov’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Matias Piñeiro’s Viola,” Plenary Session, Annual Meeting of Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, BC, April, 2015.
“High Tech Shakespeare in a Mediatized Globe,” talk delivered at symposium on “Global Shakespeares,” George Washington University, Washington, DC, January, 2014.
“’The Killing Stops Here’: Unmaking the Myths of Troy in the Wooster Group/RSC Troilus & Cressida (2012),” paper presented at conference, “Shakespeare in Tatters: Referencing His Works on Film & Television,” Centro Shakespeariano Ferrara, University of Ferrara, Italy, May, 2013.
Master Class Presentation: “Forgetting Hamlet,” Global Shakespeare Student Festival, NYU/Abu Dhabi, March, 2013.
Plenary lecture: “High Tech Shakespeare in a Mediatized Globe,” conference on “Shakespeare in the Maze of Contemporary Culture,” University of Milano, Milano, Italy, March, 2012.
“Remediating Hamlet,” University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy, March, 2012.
“Queering Ansaldo: the Transformation of Fiorentino’s Doting Godfather into ‘Tainted Wether of the Flock’ in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice,” conference on “Shakespeare, Sources and Directions,” Cork, Ireland, October, 2011.
Invited Panel Organizer & Presenter: “Ivo van Hove’s Roman Tragedies: High Tech Shakespeare in a Mediatized Globe,” Experimental Shakespeare in Theory & Practice panel session, annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), Seattle, April, 2011.
“Who is the Merchant of Venice? New Thoughts on the Mystery Man of the Rialto,” Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Oregon, July 2010.
“The Freedoms of the City: Venice in the Early Modern English Imaginary,” panel on “Shakespeare, Venice, and the Construction of Culture,” annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Venice, Italy, April 2010.
“The Face in the Mirror: Joyce’s Ulysses and the Lookingglass Shakespeare,” Renaissance Reckonings programs, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March, 2008.
“Channeling the Ghosts: the Wooster Group Remediation of the 1964 Electronovision Hamlet,” University Seminar on Shakespeare, Columbia University, December, 2007.
“’The Breath of Kings’: Brittle Glory and Naked Ambition in Shakespeare’s Richard II,” Colloquium on “Shakespeare and History,” Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, October, 2007.
Plenary Speaker: “The Face in the Mirror: Joyce’s Ulysses and the Lookingglass Shakespeare,” The International Spread of Shakespeare: the Seventh Triennial Congress of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, June, 2007.
“Channeling the Ghosts in The Wooster Group Hamlet,” Faculty & Postgraduate Seminar, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, June, 2007.
“Redistributing Complicities in an Age of Digital Production,” invited contribution to research seminar on The Ethics of Appropriation, Annual Meeting of the SAA, San Diego, April, 2007.
“Channeling Othello,” Marsh 3 Lecture, West Texas A & M University, Canyon, TX, November, 2006.
“Redistributing Complicities in Michael Radford’s Film-Version of The Merchant of Venice (2004),” Redistributing Harry: a Conference Devoted to the Work of Harry Berger, Jr., University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, October 2006.
“The Work of Exclusion in an Age of Digital Production: William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (2004),” VIII World Shakespeare Congress, Brisbane, Australia, July, 2006.
“Channeling Othello,” Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, March, 2006.
Keynote Address: “Shakespeare and the American Street,” symposium on “Shakespeare and Popular Culture: Then & Now,” University of Maryland, College Park, February, 2005.
“The Face in the Mirror: Joyce’s Ulysses and the Lookingglass Shakespeare,” Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, February, 2005.
“Leveling Distinction: Politics from Bottom Up in Shakespeare,” Colloquium on “Shakespeare and Politics,” Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, October, 2004.
“Beyond the Pale: Difference and Disorder in Sir Henry Sidney’s Memoir of Service in Ireland and John Derricke’s Image of Irelande, GEMCS conference, Newport Beach, CA (UC Irvine), October, 2003.
“The Othello Complex,” The English Seminar, University of Freiburg, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany, July, 2002.
“Shakespeare & the Street: Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard and the Common Understanding,” Medieval & Renaissance Studies program & Departments of English & Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh, September, 2000.
“Shakespeare & the Street: Looking for Richard and the Common Understanding,” Dislocating Shakespeare: the 6th Biennial ANZSA Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July, 2000.
“Shakespeare, 1916: Caliban by the Yellow Sands and the New Dramas of Democracy,” State University of New York at Buffalo, November, 1999.
“Shakespeare at Hull House: Jane Addams’s ‘A Modern Lear’ & the 1894 Pullman Strike,” Legacies of Hull House: Reuniting the Local and the Global in the Urban World, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, October, 1999.
“Shakespeare & the Street: Looking for Richard and the Common Understanding,” Shakespeare on Screen: A Centenary Conference, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain, September, 1999.
Plenary Speaker: “Shakespeare, 1916: Caliban by the Yellow Sands and the New Dramas of Democracy,” Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference on “Race, Gender and Nationality in Shakespeare,” Susquehanna University, November 1998.
“Shakespeare, 1916: Caliban by the Yellow Sands and the New Dramas of Democracy,” University Seminar on Shakespeare, Columbia University, December, 1997.
“Decolonizing ‘Postcolonial Shakespeare’: Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story, Robert Stone’s Children of Light, and Late Imperial Romance,” Shakespeare-Postcoloniality-Johannesburg conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, July, 1996.
“Democratic Vistas: Nativism, Nationalism, and the Common Man in American Constructions of Shakespeare,” panel on Shakespeare and Democracy, Annual Meeting of the SAA, Albuquerque, NM, April, 1994.
“Marlowe and the New World,” Conference on Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, July, 1993.
“Producing Disorder: the Construction of Misrule in Morton’s New English Canaan and Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation,” Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, February, 1993.
“Jack Cade in the Garden: Class Consciousness & Class Conflict in 2 Henry VI,” University Seminar on Shakespeare, Columbia University, September, 1992.
“After The Tempest: Shakespeare, Postcoloniality, and the New, New World Miranda,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Kansas City, MO, April, 1992.
Plenary Speaker, “The Tamburlaine Phenomenon,” Second International Marlowe Conference, Oxford, UK, August, 1988.
Seminar & Panel Session Organization & Direction
Co-director (with Mariacristina Cavecchi): research seminar on Negotiating Conflict in Shakespeare on Film & New Media, annual conference of the European Shakespeare Research Association, Pisa, Italy, November, 2009.
Director: research seminar on “Experimental Shakespeare,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Washington, DC, April, 2009.
Co-director (with Katherine Rowe): “Shakespeare on Screen in Theory & Practice,” a Folger Institute Seminar, Spring, 2008, Folger Library, Washington, DC.
Director: research seminar, “Recontextualizing Shakespeare (and Others) on Film,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, April, 2006, Philadelphia.
Arranger/Presider, MLA Shakespeare Division session on “New Wave Shakespeare,” MLA Convention, New Orleans, December, 2001.
Arranger/Presider, MLA Shakespeare Division session on “Shakespeare & the Peripheries,” MLA Convention, Washington, DC, December, 2000.
Arranger/Presider, MLA Shakespeare Division session on “Shakespeare and Emotion,” MLA Convention, Chicago, December, 1999.
Director, seminar on “New Readings/Old Plays: Hamlet, Troilus, Measure for Measure, and the Interpretation of the Time,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, San Francisco, April 1999.
Presider, “Reorganizing the Humanities: A New English Department for a New University?” Speakers, Gerald Graff & E. Ann Kaplan, ADE Conference, Philadelphia, June, 1990.
Director, seminar on “Class Consciousness & Class Conflict in Shakespeare,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Philadelphia, April, 1990.
Director, seminar on “Marlowe and Shakespeare,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Nashville, March, 1985.
Seminar & Panel Presentations
“De-catastrophizing Hamlet: James Ijames’s Fat Ham Spells Autumn for the Patriarchs,”
a paper contributed to Early Modern Catastrophe, a working session of the annual ASTR conference, New Orleans, November, 2022.
“Rethinking Liveness as Aliveness in Big Telly’s Macbeth (2020),” a paper contributed to an online research seminar, “Performance during Pandemic: Shakespeare and Covid,”
Virtual Pre-Conference of annual meeting of Shakespeare Association of America,” April, 2022, Jacksonville, FL.
“De-essentializing Essential Shakespeare: Five Ways of Reckoning with an Icon,” a paper contributed to an online research seminar on Inessential Shakespeare, annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, April, 2021, Austin, TX (held remotely.)
“Medium Specificity and/as Medium Convergence in Kit Monkman’s Green Screen Macbeth ( 2018), paper contributed to a seminar on Digitizing Shakespeare, April, 2020, Denver (held remotely, May 2020).
“Disassembly, Meaning-Making, and Montage in The Rub, an experimental disintegration of Hamlet,” panel session “New Spaces/Places for Shakespeare Performance and Reproduction,” European Shakespeare Research Association Conference, Roma Tre University, July, 2019.
“Disassembly, Montage, and Meaning-Making in Annie Dorsen’s A Piece of Work: a machine-made Hamlet (2013),” paper contributed to a research seminar on Avant-garde Shakespeare, biannual meeting of the European Shakespeare Research Association, August, 2017, Gdansk, Poland.
“Redesigning The Mousetrap: Antic Disposition as Political Spectacle in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014),” paper contributed to a research seminar entitled “Diversifying Audiences,” annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, 5-7 April 2017.
“Disassembly, Montage, and Meaning-Making in Annie Dorsen’s A Piece of Work: a machine-made Hamlet (2013),” paper contributed to a research seminar entitled “Performance Studies & Shakespeare: a Dialogue,” annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, 23-26 March 2016.
“Essentializing Shakespeare: Twelfth Night Repurposed in Matias Piñeiro’s Viola,” paper contributed to seminar, Adaptation and Originality in Shakespeare Films, 6th International Shakespeare Congress, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, August, 2014.
“The Speaking Silence of Citizens in Shakespeare’s Richard III,” invited paper contributed to seminar, The Rules of Playing & Early Modern Theatrical Culture,” annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, St. Louis, April 2014.
“’The Killing Stops Here’: Unmaking the Myths of Troy in the Wooster Group/RSC Troilus & Cressida (2012),” paper presented to seminar, “The Shakespeare Myth Reloaded,” Shakespeare & Myth conference, European Shakespeare Research Association, Montpellier, France, June, 2013.
“Queering Ansaldo: the Transformation of Fiorentino’s Doting Godfather into ‘Tainted Wether of the Flock’ in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice,” paper contributed to seminar on “Source-Work,” 35th International Shakespeare Congress, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, August, 2012.
“A Citizen’s History of London,” paper contributed to seminar on “Literature & History/Literature as History,” annual meeting of the SAA, Boston, April, 2012.
“High Tech Shakespeare in a Mediatized Globe,” paper contributed to Global Shakespeare seminar, International Shakespeare Congress, Prague, July, 2011.
“From First Encounter to ‘Fiery Oven’: the Effacement of the Savage in Mourt’s Relation and Histories of the Pequot War,” contribution to seminar on “Becoming Indian,” annual meeting of the SAA, Chicago, April 2010.
Respondent to Meredith Skura, “Reading Othello’s Skin: Contexts and Pretexts,” annual Bernard Beckerman Lecture, University Seminar on Shakespeare, Columbia University, October, 2009.
“The Spell of the West in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land,” paper contributed to seminar on Global & Local Identities and the Return of Nationalism, 2009 meeting of American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March, 2009.
“Channeling the Ghosts: the Wooster Group Remediation of the 1964 Electronovision Hamlet,” contribution to research seminar on Mediatizing Shakespeare, annual meeting of the SAA, Dallas, TX, March 2008.
“Surviving Shakespeare: Kristian Levring’s The King is Alive,” invited paper contributed to seminar on “Performing Textual Shakespeares,” ASTR conference, November, 2005, Toronto.
“The King Lear-Effect and Kristian Levring’s The King is Alive,” paper contributed to seminar on Shakespearean Film Theory, Annual Meeting of the SAA, Bermuda, March, 2005.
“Taymor’s Titus in Time & Space: Surrogation and Interpolation,” paper contributed to seminar on Shakespeare on Film at the Millennium, International Shakespeare Congress, Stratford-upon-Avon, July, 2004.
“The Face in the Mirror: Joyce’s Ulysses and the Lookingglass Shakespeare,” paper-panel on Joyce & Theater, Bloomsday 100: Nineteenth International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, June, 2004.
“What Wrote Woodstock,” paper contributed to seminar on Anonymous Texts, Annual Meeting of the SAA, New Orleans, April, 2004.
Respondent, seminar on “Foreign Exchanges on the Early Modern Stage,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Victoria, BC, April, 2003.
“The Face in the Mirror: Shakespeare in/and Joyce’s Ulysses,” paper contributed to seminar on Shakespearean Adaptation, annual meeting of the SAA, Minneapolis, March, 2002.
Panel Discussant (with David Kastan & Robert Reich), Theatre for a New Audience production of Troilus & Cressida (director, Peter Hall), American Place Theatre, New York City, May, 2001.
“Taymor’s Titus in Time & Space: the Politics & Poetics of Interpolation,” paper contributed to seminar on “Titus in Our Time,” annual meeting of the SAA, Miami, April, 2001.
Participant/Respondent, “Shakespeare in Pain: Edward Bond’s Lear & the Ghosts of History,” paper contributed to seminar on the Afterlife of King Lear, Shakespeare Assoc. of America, Montreal, April, 2000.
“Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare in Robert Stone’s Children of Light,” paper contributed to seminar on “Citing Shakespeare in American Popular Culture,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Cleveland, March, 1998.
Respondent, seminar on “The Place of Marlowe,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Washington, DC., March, 1997.
“Decolonizing ‘Postcolonial Shakespeare’: My Son’s Story, Children of Light, and Late Imperial Romance,” paper contributed to seminar on Postcolonial Shakespeare, Sixth World Shakespeare Congress, Los Angeles, April, 1996.
“Shakespeare at Hull House: Jane Addams’s ‘A Modern Lear’ and the 1894 Pullman Strike,” paper contributed to seminar on the Uses of Shakespeare, Annual Meeting of the SAA, Chicago, March 1995.
“Marlowe and the New World,” Marlowe paper-panel, MLA Convention, San Diego, December, 1994.
“Transplanting Disorder: the Construction of Misrule in Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation and Morton’s New English Canaan,” Annual Meeting of American Literature Association, San Diego, June, 1994.
“Queer Edward II: Dissident Sexualities and the Early Modern Subject,” paper-session on Derek Jarman’s Edward II, Third International Marlowe Conference, Cambridge, UK, June, 1993.
“Remembering the Porter: Leveling Distinction in Hamlet, Macbeth, and Bas’s Serving Man’s Defence,” paper contributed to seminar on Servants & Service, Annual Meeting of the SAA, Atlanta, April, 1993.
Paper presentation: “Jack Cade in the Garden: Class Consciousness & Class Conflict in 2 Henry VI,” Conference on Place and Displacement in the Renaissance, Center for Medieval & Early Renaissance Studies, SUNY Binghamton, October, 1991.
“Jack Cade in the Garden: Class Consciousness & Class Conflict in 2 Henry VI,” paper contributed to seminar on “Distinction,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Vancouver, BC, March, 1991.
“Shakespeare’s Troilus & Cressida: Playtext as Pariah,” paper contributed to seminar on “Reading Troilus and Cressida: Theory, Text and Context,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Boston, March, 1988.
“Marlowe’s Politics of Demystification,” Marlowe paper-session, MLA Convention, New York City, December, 1986.
“Shakespeare’s Merchant, Marlowe’s Jew: The Problem of Cultural Difference,” panel presentation, University Seminar session on The Merchant of Venice, Columbia University, November, 1986.
“Prospero in Africa,” for a seminar on “The Ideological Function of the Shakespearean Text,” Fourth International Shakespeare Congress, West Berlin, April, 1986.
“Romancing Family & State: Pericles and the Motives of Nostalgia,” for a seminar on “Rethinking Pericles,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Montreal, March, 1986.
“Dr Faustus & the Old Scholastic Cosmos,” paper presentation, Fifth Citadel Conference on Language & Literature, Charleston, SC, March, 1985.
“Ideology & Subversion in the Shakespearean Set Speech,” paper contributed to seminar on “Post-Structuralist Approaches to Shakespeare,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Cambridge, MA, April, 1984.
“The False Starts of Marlowe’s Jew of Malta,” paper-presentation, First International Marlowe Conference, University of Sheffield, July, 1983.
“Stagecrafting the Second Part of Tamburlaine,” Marlowe paper-session, MLA Convention, Los Angeles, December, 1982.
“Shakespeare’s ‘Rough Magic’: Ending as Artifice in All’s Well That Ends Well,” paper contributed to seminar on “Self-Reflexive Themes & Devices,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Minneapolis, April, 1982.
“Banquo’s Ghost,” paper contributed to seminar on “The Psychology of Theatrical Experience,” Third International Shakespeare Congress, Stratford-upon-Avon, Summer, 1981.
Respondent, seminar on “Enclosed Theatres,” Annual Meeting of the SAA, Cambridge, MA, April, 1980.
NEH Seminars & Institutes
Visiting faculty member, NEH Institute: “Shakespeare: from the Globe to the Global,”
directed by Kathleen Lynch and Michael Neill, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, July, 2011.
Fellow, NEH Institute: “The Jews, Venice, and Italian Culture,” 16 June-19 July 2008, Venice, Italy.
Fellow, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “Inventing the New World,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Summer, 1992.
Fellow, NEH Institute on Teaching Post-Colonial Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, Summer, 1985.
Graduate Courses Taught
Bread Loaf School of English—New Mexico
Graduate course: The Work of Fiction in an Age of Terror (Summer, 2009)
Folger Institute Seminar (with Katherine Rowe)
Shakespeare on Screen in Theory & Practice (Spring, 2008)
Lehigh University
Graduate Seminar: Caribbean Writing (Fall, 2001, LVAIC Consortial Professor)
Columbia University
Advanced Graduate Seminar in Shakespeare (Spring, 1989)
UC, Santa Cruz
Graduate Seminar on Chaucer (1978)
Undergraduate Courses Taught
Gallatin School, New York University
American Shakespeare (Fall, 2007)
Lafayette College
Middle-Eastern Literature & Film (Fall, 2006, LVAIC Consortial Professor)
Muhlenberg College
Border Crossings (IL course); Latin American Cinema; Medieval Literature; Reading India; Cinema of New Europe; Film Cultures of North Africa & the Middle East; Venice, the Jews & Italian Culture; New Asian Cinemas; Contemporary World Cinema; Middle-Eastern Literature & Film; Renaissance Drama; Renaissance Plays in Practice; Shakespeare; Shakespeare Reproduced; Indiewood, USA; Introduction to English Studies; Critical Survey of English literature; The Making of English literatures; Postcolonial literature; Modern British Fiction; Caribbean Writing; World Literature; Freshman Humanities: 20th Century Culture.
Senior seminars: Fictions of J.M. Coetzee (2018, 2014); The Work of Fiction in an Age of Terror (2010); Faulkner in the Tropics (2007); Reading Joyce’s Ulysses (2004, 2000, 1997); Caribbean Writing (1993); The Place of the Stage: Age of Thatcher/Age of Elizabeth (1990); Colonialism & Its Discontents (1986); Dickens and Society (1984).
First Year Seminars: Reading Lolita in Allentown (2015, 2013, 2011); Self-Fashioning in Film (2008, 2007, 2005); Film & Reality (2003, 2000, 1998); The New World in Theory & Practice (1996, 1995, 1989)
Emory University
English Renaissance Drama; Introductions to Drama, Fiction, and Poetry (1979-80)
UC Santa Cruz
Shakespeare (Summer Sessions: 1977-79)
Related Professional Activity
Co-founder & co-editor, Reproducing Shakespeare Book Series, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010-present.
Participant, Mellon-funded seminar on Costa Rica, Muhlenberg College, 2016-17
Participant, Stuart Hall & Cosmopolitanism seminar, Muhlenberg College, 2015-16.
Participant: CIEE IFDS Seminar: Exploring the Coexistence & Challenges of Neighboring Cultures: Spain & Morocco, 30 May-10 June, 2011.
Applications reader & evaluator, NEH Summer Institute, “Shakespeare: From the Globe to the Global,” March, 2011.
Guest commentary, “Shakespeare in American Life,” radio documentary produced by Richard Paul for the Folger Library, broadcast on National Public Radio, Spring, 2007.
Member, Editorial Board, Shakespeare Quarterly, 2007-2012
Member, Review Committee, Long-Term Fellowship Applications, Folger Library, January, 2007.
Member, Collaborative Research Grants Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, December, 2005-February, 2006.
Member, Editorial Board, Borrowers & Lenders, 2005 –
Chair, Nominating Committee, Shakespeare Association of America, 2003.
Chair, Program Planning Committee, Annual Meeting of Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, April 2004. Responsible for organizing (30) seminars, (10) panels, and (6) workshops.
Panelist (with Douglas Lanier and Richard Burt), “Shakespeare and America,” Odyssey: A Daily Talk Show of Ideas, WBEZ, Chicago (nationally syndicated), May 2003.
Program Reviewer, Department of English, Ithaca College, April, 2002.
Trustee, Shakespeare Association of America, 2001-2004 (elective office).
Member, Executive Committee, MLA Division on Shakespeare, 1998-2002 (elective office).
Referee, tenure/promotion candidacies: Duke University, MIT (3), UC Santa Cruz (2), University of Pittsburgh (3), Trinity College, Univ. of Colorado at Denver, Denison University, Columbia University, University of Georgia, Dalhousie University, Boston University, University of Ottawa, University of Texas (Austin), Baruch College.
Reviewer/Consultant: PMLA, ARIEL, Palgrave-Macmillan, Bedford Books, W.W. Norton, Routledge, University of Pennsylvania Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Modern Philology, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shofar, JEMCS, Theater Topics, Borrowers & Lenders, Studies in English Literature. Journal of Narrative Theory, University of Delaware Press, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Blackwell, Polity Press, Studia Anglica Posnaniensnia, Bloomsbury.
External Honors, Awards & Appointments
2010 Folger Shakespeare Library Residential Fellowship: $2,400
2008 Fellow, NEH Institute: Venice, the Jews & Italian Culture, UC Santa Cruz, $3,600
2006 LVAIC Consortial Professor, Lafayette College
2003 Folger Library Residential Fellowships, $3800.
2001 LVAIC Consortial Professor, Lehigh University Graduate Division
2000 Shire Prize for Excellence in Teaching, $10,000
1993 Long-Term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. $5000
1992 Fellow, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Univ. of Michigan, $3200
1991 Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for Distinguished Publication on
Christopher Marlowe. $14,500
1986 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Muhlenberg College, $500
1985 Fellow, NEH Summer Institute: Postcolonial Literature, Indiana University, $3000
1984 Founding Associate, University Seminar on Shakespeare, Columbia University
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