Patrick Cheney
Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature

116 Burrowes Building
Department of English
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA  16802
814- 863-1358
pgc2@psu.edu

Education

Ph.D.  University of Toronto.  1974-1979.

 M.A.  University of Toronto.  1973-1974.

 B.A.  University of Montana.  1967-1972.

Academic Employment

The Pennsylvania State University.  1980--present.

University of Toronto.  1974-1977. 

 Books Monographs

Shakespeare’s Literary Authorship.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.  xxvi + 296 pp. 

Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.  xvi + 319 pp.

Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.  xiii + 402 pp.  Winner of the Roma Gill Award for 1997.

Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.  xxix + 360 pp.  12 illustrations.

Marlowe’s Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2008.  100,000 words.  In production May 1.

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry.  Volume 2 in Blackwell’s Reading Poetry Series.  Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2010.  80,000 words.

Editions

The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe.  Co-Editor, with Brian J. Striar.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.  xviii + 302 pp. 

            Reviewed in: Times Literary Supplement; English Studies; Review of English Studies

The Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.  Co-Editor, with Elizabeth Fowler, Joseph F. Loewenstein, David Lee Miller, and Andrew Zurcher. Under contract with Oxford University Press to revise The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, ed. J. C. Smith and Ernest de Selincourt (Oxford: Clarendon, 1912).  Three-volume library edition in the Oxford English Text Series, forthcoming 2009-2015.  One-volume paperback edition for the classroom. One-volume paperback edition of A View of the Present State of Ireland.  Comprehensive electronic archive of important early editions.

Edited Collections

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry.  Editor.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.  xvi + 295 pp.

            Reviewed in: Renaissance Quarterly

Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion.  Co-Editor, with Andrew Hadfield and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  xxiii + 342 pp.

            Reviewed in: Spenser Review

Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion.  Co-Editor, with Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., and Andrew Hadfield.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.  xiii + 338 pp. 

            Reviewed in: Times Literary Supplement

The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe.  Editor.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.  Paperback, 2004.  xix + 312 pp.

Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton.  Co-Editor, with Elizabeth Jane Bellamy and Michael C. Schoenfeldt.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.  xi + 216 pp.

Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual.  Co-Editor with Theresa M. Krier and John Watkins.  Special issue. Vol. 18.  New York: AMS Press, 2003. vi + 368 pp.

                        Reviewed in: Spenser Review

European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Co-Editor, with Frederick A. de Armas.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.  x + 366 pp.

Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age.  Co-Editor, with Lauren Silberman.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. viii + 288 pp.

Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry.  Co-Editor, with Anne Lake Prescott.   Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series.  New York: Modern Language Association, 2000.  Paperback, 2000.  331 pp.

The Renaissance: 1558-1660.  Co-Editor, with Philip Hardie.  Vol. 2 of The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature.  Ed. Charles Martindale and David Hopkins.  5 vols.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.  270,000 words.

Special Projects

Consultant.  “Beyond The Faerie Queene.”  “A ‘co-operative’ of researcher-creators – each specifically targeted as among the most accomplished, technically audacious practitioners in their fields - to re-make FQ for our multi-media, multi-faith present.  The members are: Simon Palfrey (critic/writer) – Co-ordinator; Ewan Fernie (critic/writer) – Co-ordinator; David Ruiter (critic/El Paso-Juarez Co-ordinator); Margerita Cabrera (artist/sculptor); Tom Cornford (director); Katie Craik (scholar/librettist); David Knotts (composer); Joanne Laurens (playwright); Benjamin Saenz (poet/novelist); Jo Shapcott (poet); Ravi Vaidyanathan (biodynamic engineer).  Other consultants: Colin Burrow and Theresa M. Krier.  2009-2011.

Editor.  “Forum: The Return of the Author.” In Shakespeare Studies 36 (2008).  Ed. Susan Zimmerman and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.  Editor of a unit in this volume, which will feature ten essays by leading international scholars: Michael Bristol, Richard Dutton, Lukas Erne, Heather James, David Scott Kasten, Leah Marcus, Jeffrey Knapp, Brian Vickers, Wendy Wall, and Richard Wilson.  Forthcoming.  150 MS pages.

“Recent Studies in the English Renaissance.”  Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 47 (2007): 199-275.   Omnibus review of 81 books in Renaissance non-dramatic literature, 2005-2006.

Articles, Essays, Introductions (selected)

“`O, let my books be . . . dumb presagers’: Poetry and Theater in the Sonnets.”  In Shakespeare Through the Ages: The Sonnets.  Ed. Harold Bloom.  Bloom’s Shakespeare through the Ages Series.  New York: Infobase Publishing, 2008.  Reprinted from Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright, chapter 7.

“Milton, Marlowe, and Lucan: The English Authorship of Republican Liberty.”  Milton Studies 49 (2009), forthcoming.  36 MS pages.

“Introduction.”  “Forum: The Return of the Author.” In Shakespeare Studies 36 (2008): 19-25.

“Laureate Scholarship: Richard Helgerson and the Forms of Criticism.”  The Spenser Review 38 (2007): 6-10.

“Introduction. Shakespeare’s Poetry in the Twenty-First Century.”  In The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry.  Ed. Patrick Cheney.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.  1-13.   

“Poetry in Shakespeare’s Plays.”  In The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry.  Ed. Patrick Cheney.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.  221-40.

“Halting Sonnets: Poetry and Theater in Much Ado about Nothing.”  In A Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets.  Ed. Michael C. Schoenfeldt.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.  363-82.

“Introduction.”  In Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion.  Ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (with Andrew Hadfield and Garrett Sullivan).  Xix-xxiii.

“Shakespeare’s Literary Career and Narrative Poetry.”  In Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion.  Ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  160-71.

“`Defend his freedom ’gainst a monarchy’: Marlowe’s Republican Authorship.”  In Textual Conversations in the Renaissance: Ethics, Authors, Technologies.  Ed. Zachary Lesser and Benedict Robinson.  Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2006.  27-44.

“Marlowe, Christopher.”  In The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature.  Ed. David Scott Kastan.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.  393-97.

“Biographical Representations: Marlowe’s Life of the Author.”  In Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson: New Directions in Biography. Ed. J.R. Mulryne and Takashi Kozuka.  Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2006.  183-204. 

“Life.”  In A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies. Ed. Bart van Es.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.  18-41.

“`Deep-brain’d sonnets’ and `tragic shows’: Shakespeare’s Late Ovidian Art in A Lover’s Complaint.”  In Critical Essays on Shakespeare’s “A Lover’s Complaint.”  Ed. Shirley Sharon-Zisser.  Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2006.  55-77.

“Introduction.”  In Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion.  Ed. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Patrick Cheney, and Andrew Hadfield.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (with Andrew Hadfield and Garrett Sullivan).  Xi-xiii.

“Introduction: Authorship in Marlowe’s Poems.”  In The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe.  Co-Editor, with Brian J. Striar.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.  1-25.

“`An index and obscure prologue’: Books and Theater in Shakespeare’s Literary Authorship.”  In Shakespeare’s Book: Essays on Writing, Reading, and Reception.  Ed. Richard Wilson.  Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming.  47 MS pages.

“`Italian masques by night’: Machiavellian Policy and Ovidian Play in Edward II.”  In Elizabethan Drama.  Ed. Harold Bloom.  Bloom’s Period Studies.  Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004.  111-33.  Reprinted from Marlowe’s Counterfeit Profession, chapter 7.

“Introduction: Marlowe in the Twenty-First Century.”  In The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe.  Ed. Patrick Cheney.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.   1-23.
 
“From Dido to Daphne: Early Modern Death in Spenser’s Shorter Poems.”  In Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual.  Ed. Theresa M. Krier, John Watkins, and Patrick Cheney.  Vol. 18.  Special issue. New York: AMS Press, 2003.  143-63.

“Introduction.”  Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual.  Ed. Theresa M. Krier, John Watkins, and Patrick Cheney.  Special issue.  Vol. 18.  New York: AMS Press, 2003 (with Theresa M. Krier and John Watkins).  3-7.

“Introduction.”  In Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton.  Ed. Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, Patrick Cheney, and Michael C. Schoenfeldt.  London: Palgrave Press, 2003 (with Elizabeth Bellamy and Michael Schoenfeldt).  1-27.
 
“`O, let my books be . . . dumb presagers’: Poetry and Theater in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.”  Shakespeare Quarterly 52 (2001): 222-54.

“Shakespeare's Sonnet 106, Spenser's National Epic, Counter-Petrarchism.”  English Literary Renaissance 31 (2001): 331-64. 

"Recent Studies in Marlowe (1987-1998)."  English Literary Renaissance 31 (2001): 288-328.  

"Spenser's Pastorals: The Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe."  In The Cambridge Companion to Spenser.  Ed. Andrew Hadfield.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.  79-105.

 “Introduction.”  European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ed. Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.  3-23.

“`Novells of his devise’: Chaucerian and Virgilian Career Paths in Spenser's Februarie Eclogue.” I n European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ed. Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.  231-67"Teaching Spenser's Marriage Poetry:  Amoretti, Epithalamion, Prothalamion."  In Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry.  Ed. Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 2000 (with Anne Lake Prescott).  226-38.

"Materials."  [A detailed, evaluative inventory of scholarship, criticism, and texts.]  In Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry.  Ed. Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott.   New York:  Modern Language Association, 2000.  1-58.

"Introduction."   Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age.  Ed. Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000 (with Lauren Silberman).  1-6.

"Career Rivalry and the Writing of Counter-Nationhood:  Ovid, Spenser, and Philomela in Marlowe's `The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.'"  ELH 65 (1998): 523-55.

"`Thondring Words of Threate': Marlowe, Spenser, and Renaissance Ideas of a Literary Career."  In Marlowe, History, and Sexuality: New Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe.  Ed. Paul Whitfield White.  New York: AMS Press, 1998.  39-58.

"`The Nightingale is Sovereigne of Song': The Bird as a Sign of the Virgilian Orphic Poet in The Shephear­des Calender."  Journal of Medieval and Renais­sance Studies 21 (1991): 29-57.

"The Laureate Choir: The Dove as a Vocational Sign in Spenser's Al­legory of Ralegh and Elizabeth."  The Huntington Library Quarterly 53 (1990): 257-80.

"Triamond."  In The Spenser Encyclopedia.  Gen. Ed. A. C. Hamilton.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, and London: Routledge, 1990.  698-99.

"The Old Poet Presents Himself: Prothalamion as a Defense of Spenser's Ca­reer."  Spenser Studies 8 (1989): 211-38.

"`And Doubted Her to Deeme an Earthly Wight': Male Neoplatonic `Magic' and the Problem of Female Identity in Spenser's Allegory of the Two Flori­mells."  Studies in Philology 86 (1989): 310-40.

"`Secret Powre Unseene': Good Magic in Spenser's Legend of Britomart."  Studies in Philology 85 (1988): 1-28.

"Spenser's Completion of The Squire's Tale: Love, Magic, and Heroic Action in the Legend of Cambell and Triamond."  Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 15 (1985): 135‑55.

"Hemingway and Christian Epic: The Bible in For Whom the Bell Tolls."  Papers on Language and Literature 21 (1985): 170-91.

"Spenser's Dance of the Graces and the Ptolemaic Univers­e."  Studia Neophilol­ogica 56 (1984): 27‑33 (with P. J. Klemp).

"Spenser's Dance of the Graces and Tasso's Dance of the Sylvan Nymphs."  English Language Notes 22 (1984): 5‑9.

"Love and Magic in Doctor Faustus: Marlowe's Indictment of Spenserian Idealism."  Mosaic 17 (1984): 93‑109.

Jonson's The New Inn and Plato's Myth of the Hermaphrodite."  Renaissance Drama  NS 14 (1983): 173-94.

"Alcestis and the `Passion for Immortality': Milton's Sonnet XXIII and Plato's Symposium."  Milton Studies 18 (1983): 63-76.

"Moll Cutpurse as Hermaphrodite in Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl."  Renaissance and  Reformation NS 7 (1983): 120-34.

"C. Day Lewis's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid:  `A Living Contemporary Language.'" Comparative Literature Studies 20 (1983): 435-45.

"Poe's Use of The Tempest and the Bible in `The Masque of the Red Death.'"  English          Language Notes 20 (1983): 31-39.

Book Reviews

Gordon McMullan.  Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.  408 pp.  Shakespeare Quarterly.  Forthcoming, 2009.

Robert A. Logan.  Shakespeare’s Marlowe: The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare’s Artistry.  Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2007.  251 pp.  English Studies.  Forthcoming, 2008.

Peter Hyland.  An Introduction to Shakespeare’s Poems (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).  240 pp.  Shakespeare Quarterly 56 (2005):  220-24.

James P. Bednarz.  Shakespeare & the Poets’ War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001) x + 334 pp.  Shakespeare Quarterly 54 (2003): 98-103.

Bruster, Douglas.  Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern Drama (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000). xi + 268 pp.  Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003): 238-40.

Fred Tromly.  Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998) xiv + 238 pp.  Modern Philology 99 (2002): 615-22.

J.A. Downie and J.T. Parnell, eds.  Constructing Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) xiii + 232 pp. Clare Harraway.  Re-Citing Marlowe: Approaches to the Drama  (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2000) 224 pp.  Yuzo Yamada.  Writing under Influences: A Study of Christopher Marlowe (N.p.: Eihosha, 1999) xi + 214 pp.  Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001): 1666-72.

Troni Y. Grande.  Marlovian Tragedy: The Play of Dilation (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1999) 221 pp.   Ian McAdam.  The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe (Newark: University of Delaware Pres; London: Associated University Presses, 1999) 283 pp.  Renaissance Quarterly 53 (2000): 1247-50.

Burnett, Mark Thornton.  Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays.  Everyman Library (London: Dent; Rutland, VT: Charles S. Tuttle, 1999) xxxvi + 644 pp. Marlowe Society of America Book Reviews 19 (2000): 2-5.

Maguire, Laurie E.  Shakespearean Suspect Texts: The "Bad" Quartos and Their Contexts.  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xvii + 427 pp.  Marlowe Society of America Book Reviews 17 (1998): 4-6.

Roger Kuin.  Chamber Music: Elizabethan Sonnet-Sequences and the Pleasure of Criticism.  (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998) xi + 289 pp.  Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999): 215-16.

Zunder, William, and Suzanne Trill, eds.  Writing and the English Renaissance. Crosscurrents Series (London: Longman, 1996) xii + 351 pp.  International Journal of the Classical Tradition 6 (1999): 314-17.

James W. Broaddus.  Spenser's Allegory of Love: Social Vision in Books III, IV, and V of "The Faerie Queene" (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1995) 185 pp.  International Journal of the Classical Tradition 5 (1999): 491-93.

Roma Gill, ed.  "The Jew of Malta" (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.  Vol. 4 of The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. Roma Gill.  5 vols.  (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987-1998) 3 illus. + xx + 127 pp.   Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 300-01.

Matthew Proser.  The Gift of Fire: Aggression and the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts 12.  New York: Peter Lang, 1995) x + 225 pp.  Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 301-03.

John M. Steadman.  Moral Fiction in Milton and Spenser (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995) 200 pp.  Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 895-97.

Douglas Cole.  Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy.  Lives of the Theatre (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995) xvi + 176 pp.  Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 665-67.

Harold L. Weatherby.  Mirrors of Celestial Grace: Patristic Theology in Spenser's Allegory  (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) viii + 271 pp.  Seventeenth-Century News  54 (1996): 6-9.

Richard Rambuss.  Spenser's Secret Career (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) xv + 164 pp.  The Spenser Newsletter 24 (1994): 5-9.

John S. Mebane.  Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age:  The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989) xvii + 309 pp.  The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 91 (1992): 226-29.

University of Hartford Studies in Literature, Special Issue on "Literature and Religion:  Essays on Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Criticism," ed. William L. Stull, 15, No. 3 (1983) - 16, No. 1 (1984) vi + 136 pp.  Seventeenth-Century News 44 (1986): 7-10.

Douglas Brooks-Davies.  The Mercurian Monarch:  Magical Politics from Spenser to Pope (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983) viii + 222 pp.  The Spenser Newsletter 16 (1985): 1-3.

The Papers of William Penn, Vol. I, 1644-1679, ed. Mary Maples Dunn, Richard S. Dunn, Richard A. Ryerson, Scott M. Wilds, and Jean R. Soderland (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981) xv + 703 pp.; illustrations; maps.  The Eighteenth Century:  A Current Bibliography, ed. James Springer Borck, NS 7--for 1981.  New York:  AMS Press, 1985.  2: 110-11.

The Old Wives Tale by George Peele.  In The Revels Plays, ed. Patricia Binnie (Manchester:  Manchester University Press; Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1980) xi + 95 pp.  Seventeenth­­-Century News 41 (1983): 52-53.
 
Essays and Studies: 1981.  Collected by Anne Barton (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1981) 147 pp.  Seventeenth-Century News 40 (1982): 71-72.

The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, ed. John Loftis (Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1979) xxi + 272 pp.  Seventeenth-Century News 40 (1982): 18-20.

Grants, Awards, Fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities.  Scholarly Editions Program.  For The Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.  2007-2008.

Class of 1933—Distinction in the Humanities Award.  College of Liberal Arts.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  2006.

Resident Scholars Grant.  Institute for the Arts and Humanities.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  2006.

Mellon Fellowship.  Harry Ransom Center. University of Texas, Austin, TX.  2005.

Individual Faculty Grant.  Institute for the Arts and Humanities.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  2005.

Erasmus Award.  Department of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  2004.

Global Fund Award.  College of Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  2004.

Global Fund Award.  College of Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  2003.

Visiting Research Fellowship.  Merton College, University of Oxford, England.  Michaelmas 2001.

Research Fellowship.  Bibliographical Society of America.  2001.  

Mellon Foundation Grant.  Co-Director, with Robert R. Edwards.  Mellon Issues in Interpretation Seminar. "Tradition, Revision, and Continuity in Renaissance and Medieval Literary Studies."    Pennsylvania State University.  May 16-June 8, 2000 and May 15-June 7, 2001.

Term Fellowship.  Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  1999-2001.

Global Fund Award.  College of Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  2001.

Internal Faculty Award.  Research and Graduate Studies Office.  College of the Liberal Arts.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  2000.

Roma Gill Award.  Marlowe Society of America.  For Marlowe’s Counterfeit Profession.  December 1999.

Internal Grants. Summer Institute.  June 1998.  "The Artist in an Age of Imperial Culture: Careers in the Early Modern Period."  Co-director, with Frederick A. de Armas.  Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies; Dean's Office, College of Liberal Arts; Research and Graduate Studies Office, College of Liberal Arts; Program Innovation Fund, Continuing and Distance Education; and Special Programs and Faculty Involvement, Office of Summer Sessions.  With sponsorship from the Departments of English, Spanish/Italian/Portuguese, and Comparative Literature.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

Research Fellowship.  Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  1997.

Internal Faculty Award.  Research and Graduate Studies Office.  College of the Liberal Arts.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  1997.

Research Fellowship.  Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  1996. 

Internal Faculty Award.  Research and Graduate Studies Office.  College of the Liberal Arts.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  1996.

Research Fellowship.  Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  1995.

Internal Faculty Award.  Research and Graduate Studies Office.  College of the Liberal Arts. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  1995.

Special Funding.  The Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, the Research and Graduate Studies Office in the College of Liberal Arts, and the Departments of English, Comparative Literature, and History.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  To bring Renaissance scholars to Penn State.  1993-94.

Faculty Research Money.  Research and Graduate Studies Office.  College of The Liberal Arts. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  1992-93.

Research Fellowship.  Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  1987.

 Work in Progress

“Teaching Marlowe’s Translation of Ovid’s Amores.”  In Approaches to Teaching Ovid and Ovidianism.  Ed. Cora Fox and Barbara Boyd.  New York: Modern Language Association, 2008, forthcoming.  15 MS pages.

“The Author’s Voice in ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Spenser.”  In Shakespeare and the Middle Ages.  Ed. John Watkins and Curtis Perry.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, forthcoming.  31 MS pages.

“Did Shakespeare Have a Literary Career?”  In Classical and Counter-Classical Literary Careers.  Ed. Philip Hardie and Helen Moore.  Proposal approved by Cambridge University Press.  31 MS pages.

“Perdita, Pastorella, and the Romance of Literary Form: Shakespeare's Counter-Spenserian Authorship."  In Shakespeare and Spenser: New Critical Essays.  Ed. Julian Lethbridge. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007.  221-50.  [in proofs]

“Edmund Spenser.” In The Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia.  Ed. Patricia Parker.  5 vols.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, forthcoming 2008.  11 MS pages.

“Christopher Marlowe.” In The Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia.  Ed. Patricia Parker.  5 vols.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, forthcoming 2008.

“Colin Clouts Come Home Againe and Astrophel.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Spenser Studies.  Ed. Richard McCabe.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009.  7000 words.

“Introduction: Classics, English, and Intertextuality.”  The Renaissance: 1558-1660.  Ed. Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie.  Vol. 2 of The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature.  Ed. Charles Martindale and David Hopkins.  5 vols.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 (with Philip Hardie).

“Literary Careers.”  In The Renaissance: 1558-1660.  Ed. Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie.  Vol. 2 of The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature.  Ed. Charles Martindale and David Hopkins.  5 vols.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.  5000 words.

“Edward II.”  In The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy.  Ed. Emma Smith and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009.  5000 words.

Professional Papers and Sessions Organized (selected)

“Classical Literary Careers in the English Renaissance.”  Conference on “Classicisms in English Renaissance Literature.”  Trinity College, University of Cambridge, England.  June 21, 2008.

“Shakespeare, Critical Theory, and the Value of Authorship Studies.  Penn State Panel, also featuring Richard Dutton and Jeffrey Knapp, on “The Return of the Author in Shakespeare Studies.”  Penn State University, University Park, PA.  March 25, 2008.

“The Intertextual Sublime: Authorship in Marlowe, Lucan, and Longinus.”  Conference on the Sublime in Classical Culture.  Trinity College, University of Cambridge, England.  March 7, 2008.

“Shakespeare and Early Modern Textual Culture.”  Seminar organized with Lukas Erne.   Shakespeare Association of America.  San Diego, CA.  April 14, 2007.

“Laureate Scholarship: Richard Helgerson and the Forms of Criticism.”  International Spenser Society.  MLA Convention.  Philadelphia, PA.  December 28, 2006.

“Shakespeare’s Literary Authorship.”  Lecture Series.  Institute for the Arts and Humanities.  Penn State University, University Park, PA.  November 16, 2006.

“Shakespeare’s Profession of Consciousness: Books, Poetry and Theatre in Hamlet.”  Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.  June 6, 2006.

“Devirgination: Spenser and the Elizabethan Discourse of Lost Virginity.”  Fourth International Spenser Conference.  Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.  May, 2006.

“Perdita, Pastorella, and the Romance of Literary Form: Shakespeare's Counter-Spenserian Authorship."  Shakespeare Association of America.  Seminar on Shakespeare and Spenser, organized by Thomas Herron and Hannibal Hamlin. Philadelphia, PA.  April 25, 2006.

“Did Shakespeare Write Epic?”  Newberry Library Seminar on Epic and Romance.  Newberry Library.  Chicago, IL.  October 29, 2005.

“The Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser: Editing The Shepheardes Calender on the Comet Collator.”  Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Luncheon Lecture Series. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  October 5 2005.

“The Profession of Consciousness: Books, Poetry, and Theater in Hamlet.”  University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland.  June 14, 2005.

“Milton, Marlowe, and the English Authorship of Republican Liberty.”  8th International Milton Symposium.  Grenoble, France.  June 9, 2005.

“Shakespeare’s Counter-Laureate Authorship.”  Shakespeare Association of America.  Bermuda. March 19, 2005.

“Did Shakespeare Have a Literary Career?”  The Third Passmore Edwards Symposium: “Literary Careers.”  Plenary Lecture.  Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.  Oxford, England.  September 2, 2004.

“`Threne’ and `Scene’: The Author’s Relics of Immortality in Shakespeare’s `Phoenix and Turtle.’”  Royal Holloway, University of London.  London, England.  July 2, 2004.

“`Threne’ and `Scene’: The Author’s Relics of Immortality in Shakespeare’s `Phoenix and Turtle.’”  University of Geneva, Switzerland.  June 16, 2004.

“Petrarch’s Laurel Career in Renaissance England: Authorship in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare.”  Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literatures.  Keynote Lecture.  Duquesne University.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  April 13, 2004.

“Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Spenser: The Author’s Voice in “The Phoenix and Turtle.”  Shakespeare Association of America.  Seminar on Shakespeare and the Middle Ages, organized by John Watkins.  New Orleans, LA.  April 8-10, 2004.

“Counter-Spenserian Authorship: Shakespeare, Lucrece, and Republican Epic.”  International Spenser Society.  MLA Convention.  San Diego, CA.  December 27, 2003.

Rountable. Luncheon of the International Spenser Society. MLA Convention.  San Diego, CA.  December 28, 2003

“Lucan, Lucrece, and the Counter-Epic of Empire: The Afterlife of Marlowe’s Republican Authorship.”  Marlowe Society of America.  Modern Language Association.  San Diego, CA.  December 30, 2003.

“`Deep brain’d sonnets’ and `tragic shows’: Spenser and Marlowe in Shakespeare’s A Lover’s Complaint.  Cornell University.  Ithaca, New York.  October 23, 2003.

“Lucan’s First Book and The Rape of Lucrece: Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Republican Authorship.”  International Lucan Conference.  Princeton University. Princeton, NJ.  October 7, 2003.
 
“’Defend freedom ‘gainst a monarchy’: Republican Representation in Marlowe.”  International Conference on Marlowe.  July 4, 2003.  Cambridge, England.

Panel Chair.  “Marlowe and Style.”  International Conference on Marlowe.  July 4, 2003.  Cambridge, England.

Panel Chair.  “Spenser and Politics.”  Organized by Andrew Hadfield.  International Spenser Society.  New York, Modern Language Association Conference, 2002.

“Shakespeare’s Poems and Plays: The Making of the National Poet-Playwright, 1593-1623.  March 13, 2002.  Queen’s University of Belfast.  Belfast, Ireland.

Welcoming Remarks; Introduction to Plenary Lecture by Richard A. McCabe.  International Conference on “The Place of Spenser: Worlds, Words, Works.”  July 8, 2001. Pembroke College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.

Organizer and Chair.  “Editing Spenser.”  International Spenser Society.  MLA Convention.  Washington, DC, 2000.

“The Materiality of the Inter-Text: The Curious Case of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 106.”   Invited Lecture.  History of Material Texts Seminar.  University of Pennsylvania.  Philadelphia.  November 13, 2000.

“Mirrors for the Millennium: Frances Meres inside the Historic Hall of Shakespeare.”  Opening 45-minute lecture for international conference on Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London.  London, England.  July 2000.

"Shakespeare's Writing Career: The Emergence of the Poet-Playwright in Early Modern Europe."  Invited lecture.  Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium.  University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Winter, 1999.

"`Bacchus fruite is frend to Phoebus wise': Marlowe and the Emergence of the Poet-Playwright in Early Modern England."  Fourth International Conference on Marlowe, Cambridge, England, 1998. 

Organizer.  "Spenser at Kalamazoo."  Three sessions, including the Kathleeen Williams Lecture.  Medieval Institute.  Kalamazoo, MI, 1998.

Organizer.  "Spenser at Kalamazoo."  Three sessions.  Medieval Institute.  Kalamazoo, MI, 1999.

Organizer and Chair.  "Spenser and Nationhood."  Open session for the Spenser Society of America.  MLA Convention.  Washington, DC, 1996.

Organizer and Chair.  "Comparative Spenser."  Panel for "The Faerie Queene in the World, 1596-1996: Spenser among the Disciplines."  New Haven, CT, 1996.

"`Area maior': Marlowe's New Renaissance Ovid."  Special Session on "Ovid, Intertextuality, England, and the 1590s."  MLA Convention, Chicago, IL, 1995.

"Compassing the Weighty Prize: The Rival Poetics of Spenser and Marlowe."  Spenser Society of America.  MLA Convention, San Diego, CA, 1994.

"`Thondring Words of Threate': Marlowe, Spenser, and Renaissance Ideas of a Literary Career."  Third International Conference on Marlowe, Cambridge, England, 1993.

"`The Warbling Pipe': The Bird as an Orphic Emblem in The Shepheardes Calender."  "Spenser at Kalamazoo," Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, 1990.

"Sporting the Muse in Pleasant Mew: The Love Lyric as a Vital Genre in Spenser's Virgilian Career."  NEH Conference, Refiguring the Renaissance.  Tulsa, OK, 1990.

"The Laureate Choir: The Dove as a Vocational Emblem in Spenser's Allegory of Timias and Belphoebe."  Spenser Society of America.  MLA Convention, New Orleans, LA, 1989.

"Prothalamion and The Faerie Queene: Spenser's `Spousall Verse' as a Defense of Allegorical Love Poetry."  "Spenser at Kalamazoo," Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, 1987.

Respondent to paper by D'Orsay Pearson on "Spenser's `Natural Magicians': Canacee, Cambina, and the Fay."  "Spenser at Kalamazoo," Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, 1986.

"`Secret Power Unseene':  Good Magic in Spenser's Legend of Britomart."  "Spenser at Kalamazoo," Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, 1985.

"Love and Magic in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus."  Marlowe Society of America.  MLA Convention, New York, NY, 1982.

Teaching Experience and Interests

            Courses

Renaissance Literature: Poetry, Prose, Drama
Sixteenth-Century Literature: Poetry, Prose, Drama
Seventeenth-Century Literature: Poetry, Prose, Drama
Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry: Theory and Practice
Spenser
Marlowe: Poems and Plays
Shakespeare: Poems and Plays
Shakespeare’s Contemporaries on the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline Stage
Western Tragedy: Classical through the Enlightenment (Aeschylus to Goethe)
English Tragedy: Medieval through Modern (Malory through Sam Shepard)
Western Epic: Homer to Milton
Masterpieces of Western Literature through the Renaissance (the Bible through Milton)
Theories of Influence and Intertextuality
                                   
SRTE (“Student Rating of Teaching Effectiveness”) Scores (1999-2007)

                        “overall rating of instructor” in courses taught:    6.11 on 7.0 scale

           
Graduate Theses Directed

Katharine Cleland.  English.  Ph.D.  In progress.
Dustin Stegner.  English.  Ph.D.  2006
Rossella Malago.  Comparative Literature.  Ph.D.  2001.
Dominic Delli Carpini.  English.  Ph.D.  1995.
Cheryl Hinson.  English.  Ph.D.  1995.
Jeffrey Morris.  English.  Ph.D.  1993.
Gay Gragson.  English.  MA.  1986.
Ron Halse.  English.  M.A.  1985.
Cynthia Fagerheim.  English.  M.A.  1985
Paul Eggars.  English.  M.A.  1985.

Graduate Theses Committee Member

Ryan Croft.  English.  Ph.D.  In progress.
Chad Schrock.  English.  Ph.D.  In progress.
Giuseppina Iacono.  English.  Ph.D.  In progress.
Steele Nowlin.  English.  Ph.D.  2007.
Doc Rissell.  English.  Ph.D.  2007.
Tim Arner.  English. Ph.D.  2006.
Elizabeth Gross.  English.  Ph.D.  2006.
Hiewon Shin.  English.  2005
Amy Barber.  Spanish.  Ph.D.  2002.
Greg Colon-Semenza.  English.  Ph.D.  2000.
Javier Lorenzo.  Comparative Literature.  Ph.D.  2000.
Colin Fewer.  English.  Ph.D. 2000.
Anne Fisher.  English.  Ph.D.  2000.
Kristin Hofer.  English.  Ph.D.  1999.
Jane Baston.  English.  Ph.D.  1998.
Shu-Hua Wang.  English.  Ph.D.  1993.
Howard McConnaughy.  English.  Ph.D.  1989.
Phil Norcross.  English.  M.A..  1985
Marianne Miller.  English.  M.A.  1985.
Celia Curran.  English.  M.A..  1984.

Undergraduate Honors Theses Supervised

Danielle Traister.  English.  2007.
Kristina Sundstrom.  English.  2006.
Katherine Grazinni.  Comparative Literature.  2006.
Alicia Brennan.  English.  2004.
Diane Persin.  English.  2001. 
Michael Venerra.  English.  1996.  Winner of Henry Sams Award for Best Honors Thesis
Jessica K. Naussau.  English.  1995.
Ellen Memmer.  English.  1994.
Lisa A. Celovsky.  English.   1987. Winner of Henry Sams Award for Best Honors Thesis
Michelle Marie Schlak.  English.  1987.
Michael Chupka.  English.  1985.
                                                                                                                                                                        Undergraduate Research Interns Supervised

Matt Daily.  English.  2007-2008.
Matthew Dyjak.  English.  2008.
Joanna Guldin.  English.  2007.
Keith Donnell.  English.  2007.
Eric Brune.  English.  2006-2007.           
Dana Helsel.  English. 2005-2006.
Julie Noblick.  English.  2003-2004.
Tom Bassinger.  English.  2003-2004.
Letitia Montgomery.  English.  2002-2003.
David Goldfarb.  English.  2001-2002.

Research Assistants

Katharine Cleland.  2008.
Lesley Owens.  2007-2008.
LeAnne Kline.  2006-2007.
Giuseppina Iacono.  2005-2006.
Nicholas Repsher.  2004-2005.
Dustin Stegner.  2003-2004.
Elizabeth Gross.  2003-2002.
Amy Barber.  2001-2000.
Colin Fewer.  1999-2000.
Todd Preston.  1998-1999.
Gregory Semenza.  1997-1996.
Richard Cunningham.  1995-1996.
Jeffrey Morris.  1992-1993.
Matthew Kinservik.  1992-1991.
James Thomas.  1990-1991.
Sandra Fennell.  1990-1989.

Professional Service and Activities

Applicant Reviewer.  Competition for Dissertation Completion Fellowship of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program.  2008.

Nelson Prize Committee.  Renaissance Society of America.  New York, NY.  2008.

Peer Review Panelist.  National Endowment for the Humanities.  Research Fellowships, British Literature.  Washington DC.  2007.

Applicant Reviewer.  Competition for Dissertation Completion Fellowship of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program.  2007.

Editorial Advisory Board.  Renaissance Quarterly.  2006-2009.

Discipline Representative.  English Literature.  Renaissance Society of America.  New York, NY.  2006-2009.

Faculty Marshal.  Department of English.  Pennsylvania State University.  Spring Commencement Ceremony, University Park, PA, 2003.

Delegate.  Modern Language Association, Delegate Assembly, Division of Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare. 2000-2002.

President.  International Spenser Society.  2000-2001.  Elected.  Vice President: 1998-99.  Executive Committee: 1994-1996.

Editorial Board.  Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual.  Ed. Anne Lake Prescott and Thomas P. Roche, Jr.  New York: AMS Press.  1999--.

Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, with Elizabeth Fowler and John Watkins.  “The Place of Spenser: Worlds, Words, Works.”  International Conference.  July 6-8, 2001. Pembroke College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. Sponsored by the International Spenser Society.

Chair.  Program Committee.  "Spenser at Kalamazoo."  Medieval Institute.  1997-99.  Member: 1995-97.

Chair.  Isabel G. MacCaffrey Award Committee.  International Spenser Society.  1998-99.

Co-director, with Frederick A. de Armas.  "The Artist in an Age of Imperial Culture: Careers in the Early Modern Period."  Summer Institute June 1998.  Specialists from Classics, Art History, Italian, Spanish, French, and English.

Faculty Co-organizer, with Elizabeth Fowler.  "The Faerie Queene in the World, 1596-1996: Spenser among the Disciplines."  International Conference.  September 26-28, 1996, Yale University.

Invited Lectures:
           
Trinity College, University of Cambridge, England.  March 15, 2008.
International Spenser Society.  Modern Language Association.  December 28, 2006.
University of Oxford, Oxford, England.  June 6, 2006.
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.  October 29, 2005.
University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland.  June 14, 2005.
Bermuda, Shakespeare Association of America.  March 18, 2005.
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.  Oxford, England.  September 2, 2004.
Royal Holloway, University of London.  London, England.  July 2, 2004.
University of Geneva.  Geneva, Switzerland.  June 16, 2004.
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  April 13, 2004.
Cornell University.  Ithaca, New York.  October 23, 2003.
Princeton University.  Princeton, New Jersey.  October 4, 2004.
The Queen’s University of Belfast.  Belfast, Ireland.  March 13, 2002.
University of Pennsylvania.  Philadelphia, PA.  November 13, 2000.
Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.  March 22, 1999.
Spenser Society of America.  Modern Language Association.  December 27, 1994.

Book Manuscript Reviewer and Book Endorsements:  Cambridge University Press (2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2001); Ashgate Press (2008, 2004, 2002); Oxford University Press (2006, 2005, 2005, 2001, 1999); University of Edinburgh Press (2005); Modern Language Association (2005, 2003); University of Chicago Press (2004); Cornell University Press (2003, 2002); College Publishing (2003); Medieval and Renaissance Text and Studies Series, Tempe, AZ (2000); Duquesne University Press (1999); University of Toronto Press (1998, 1997, 1995); Wayne State University Press (1998).

Article Manuscript Reviewer: Milton Quarterly (2007); Modern Philology (2005); Spenser Studies (2005); Renaissance Quarterly (2004; 2002; 1997); PMLA (2003); Shakespeare Quarterly (2001); Literature and History (2001); Spenser Studies (1999--); South Atlantic Review (1995); Comparative Literature Studies (1987-2001); The Spenser Encyclopedia (1984-1990).

Consultant.  British Literature and Its Times: Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill.   Ed. Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valestuk.  World Literature and Its Times 3.  Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.

External Referee for appointment, award, tenure, and promotion:  British Academy (2008); Leverhulme Trust, UK (2008); University of Minnesota (2008, 2002); University of Massachusetts (2008); Providence College (2008); University of Michigan (2007); Yale University (2006); University of Cork, Ireland (2006); University of Cape Town, South Africa (2006); University of Neuchatel, Switzerland (2006); University of Illinois—Urbana-Champagne (2006, 2004); University of Cambridge (2005, 2004, 2003, 2002); University of Pennsylvania (2005); Columbia University (2004); Purdue University (2004); University of California-Irvine (2004); Le Moyne College (2004); Queen’s University of Belfast, Ireland (2003); University of Notre Dame (2002); University of Oxford (2001); Emory University (2001); Texas Christian University (2001); Washington State University (2001); Johns Hopkins University (2000); Syracuse University (2000); University of Missouri-Columbia (2000); Texas Tech University (2000); York University, Toronto (1999, 1998); St. Louis University (1999); Kent State University (1999); University of New Hampshire (1999); Ohio State University (1998; 1996); University of Oklahoma (1995); CUNY-Baruch (1994).

External Examiner, Ph.D. thesis:  University of Oxford (2001, 2001).

External Reader:  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2003, 1999); National Endowment for the Humanities (1998).

External Reviewer for Ohio State University, Office of Provost, for Department of English Strategic Initiative Proposal (1999).

Judge.  The Shakespeare Competition. State College Area High School.  State College, PA.  February 5, 2004.

Host.  Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship.  Dr. Jane Grogen, Galway, Ireland.  Pennsylvania State University.  2004-2005.

Judge.  Debating Team.  State College Area High School.  Pittsburgh, PA.  January 2008.

University Service and Administration

           
Department of English

Personnel Committee.  Member.  2005-2007.             
Search Committee for Anglo-Saxon Literature.  Member.  2005-2006.      
Awards Committee.  Member.  2004.
Renaissance Search Committee.  Member.  2003.
Personnel Committee.  Member.  2000-2001.
“External Impact” Subcommittee.  New Scholarship Initiative.  Chair.  1999.
Personnel Committee.  Member. 1998-1999.
Graduate Studies Committee.  Member.  1994.
Administrative Committee.  Member.  1993-1994.
Search Committee for a Senior Renaissance Scholar.  Member.  1993.
Graduate Studies Committee.  Member.  1992-1993.
Subcommittee on Graduate Teaching.  Chair.  1992-1993.
Subcommittee on Curricular Reform.  Chair.  1992-1993.
Personnel Committee.  Member.  1991-1993.
Ph.D. Poetry Exam Committee.  Member.  1991-1993.               
Ph.D. Renaissance Exam Committee.  Member.  1990-1991.
Ph.D. Poetry Exam Steering Committee.  Member.  1990.
M.A. Exam Committee.  Chair. 1989-1990.
M.A. Exam Committee.  Member.  1988-1989.
Composition Committee.  Member.  1986-1987.
Undergraduate Technical Writing Program. Member.  1985-1987.
Undergraduate Literature Committee.  Member.  1984-1986.
Graduate Committee on M.A. in Technical Writing and Editing.  Member.  1983-1985.
Undergraduate Technical Writing Program. Coordinator.  1983-1984.
Composition Committee.  Member.  1983-1984.
Search Committee for Comp/Bus/Tech Writing Job Candidate.  Member.  1982-1983.    
Business & Technical Writing Committee.  Member.  1981-1983.
                                                                                                    
Department of Comparative Literature

Personnel Committee in Comparative Literature.  Member.  2005-2007.
Personnel Committee.  Special Promotion and Review Appointment.  1999.
Policy Committee.  Member.  1996-1997.
Undergraduate Studies Committee.  Chair.  1989-1992.
Policy Committee.  Member.  1989-1992. 
Comparative Literature Luncheon.  Coordinator.  1985-1986.
Graduate Committee on M.A.  Member.   1984-1985.

College of Liberal Arts

Sabbatical Leave Committee. Member.  1998-2000
Sabbatical Leave Committee.  Chair.  1997-1998.
Graduate and Research Committee.  Member.  1989-1991.
Library Committee.  Chair.  1989-1991.
Faculty Meetings of College of Agriculture College of Liberal Arts.  Representative.  1985-1986.
Faculty Meetings of College of Agriculture College of Liberal Arts.  Representative.  1982-1983.

Editorial Experience

Editor.  Comparative Literature Studies.  1992-2001.

Managing Editor.  Comparative Literature Studies.  1986-1992.

Abstracts Editor.  Seventeenth-Century News.  1982-1986.

Professional Societies

Modern Language Association
International Spenser Society
Renaissance Society of America
Marlowe Society of America
Shakespeare Association of America