Curriculum Vitae
James Fitzmaurice
Northern Arizona and the University of Sheffield
EDUCATION
BA, Comparative Literature, Occidental College, 1965.
MA, English, California State University, Long Beach, 1967.
PhD, English, The University of Iowa, 1971.
TEACHING, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND RESEARCH POSTS
Assistant Prof. of English, Northern Arizona Univ., 1971-1977.
Associate Prof. of English, Northern Arizona Univ., 1978-1991.
Prof. of English, Northern Arizona Univ., 1992 - present.
Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English, Northern Arizona Univ., 1997 – 2002, 2003 – 2004.
Coordinator of Statewide English Programs, Northern Arizona Univ. 2004 – 2005.
Director of Distance Education, School of English, University of Sheffield (UK), 2006 – present.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 1981.
Guest Professor, University of Tübingen, 1986.
Dining Member, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge University, 1989.
Visiting Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University, 1993.
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, 1996.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Honors Program Professor of the Year, NAU, 1991.
Teaching Scholar Award, NAU, 1995.
Honorable Mention, Best Edition Division, 1998, for Major Women Writers of Seventeenth Century England. The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.
Most Essential Works, Women’s Studies Division, 2000, for Major Women Writers of Seventeenth Century England. Association of College and Research Libraries.
President's Award, NAU, 2001.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
a. Books
1. Margaret Cavendish: The Sociable Letters, New York: Garland Press, 1997. An old-spelling, scholarly edition based on the 1664 first edition and on hand-made corrections ordered by the author. Introduction, bibliography, notes. Pp. 229 + xxviii.
2. The Humourous Lovers: A Comedy Written by the Duke of Newcastle. An old-spelling, scholarly edition based on the 1677 first edition. Introduction, bibliography, notes. Oxford: The Seventeenth Century Press, 1997. Pp. 64.
3. Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1997. A modern-spelling, scholarly edition suitable for classroom use. Fitzmaurice: General editor; author of introduction. Sections edited by Fitzmaurice: The Rover by Aphra Behn (complete) and Sociable Letters by Margaret Cavendish (selections). With: Josephine Roberts (textual editor). Section editors: James Fitzmaurice, Josephine Roberts, Eugene Cunnar, Nancy Gutierrez, and Carol Barash. Pp. 408. Numerous reprintings.
4. The Sociable Letters of Margaret Cavendish in Context, revised and expanded version of number 1 above. Peterborough, Canada: Broadview Press, 2004. Pp. 286.
5. Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections, co-editor with Katherine Romack, Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2006. A collection of essays.
6. Margaret Cavendish and Literary Households in Seventeenth Century England. In progress.
b. Refereed journal articles and chapters in books
1. “Writing, Reading, and Asynchronous Spontaneity in Online Teaching of Shakespeare,” for Teaching Literature and Language Online, a commissioned MLA teaching volume, ed., Ian Lancashire. Chapter completed and submitted., June 2006.
2. “’When an Old Ballad Is Plainly Sung’: Musical Lyrics in the Plays of Margaret and William Cavendish” in Gender and Oral Traditions in Early Modern Texts, eds. Mary Ellen Lamb and Karen Bamford. Volume accepted by Ashgate Press, forthcoming summer 2007.
6. “‘The Lotterie’: A Transcription of a Manuscript Play Probably by Margaret Cavendish,” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 66 (2003), pp. 155 - 67.
7. “Daring and Innocence in the Poetry of Elizabeth Rochester and Jane Barker,” In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism, vol. 2 (2002), pp. 25 – 43.
8. “Parody, Autobiography, and the Sociable Letters of Margaret Cavendish,” in A Princely Brave Woman: Collected Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, ed., Stephen Clucas, Ashgate Press, 2003, pp. 69 - 83.
9. “Fear of the Supernatural as a ‘Pleasante and Merry Humour’ in Two of Newcastle’s Comedies,” in Fear and its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, eds., Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, Brepols, 2002 (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 6), pp. 189 – 205.
10. “Margaret Cavendish’s Life of William, Plutarch, and Mixed Genre,” for Authorial Conquests, eds., Nancy Weitz and Line Cottegnies, Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 2003, pp. 80 - 102.
11. “The Life and the Literary Reputation of Margaret Cavendish,” Quidditas: The Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, vol. 20 (1999, appeared 2001), pp. 55 - 74.
12. “Margaret Cavendish in Antwerp: the Actual and the Imaginary,” In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism, vol. 9, nos. 1 and 2, 2001, pp 29 - 40.
13. “William Cavendish and Two Entertainments by Ben Jonson,” The Ben Jonson Journal, vol. 5 (1998, appeared 1999), pp. 63 - 80.
14. “Jane Barker and the Tree of Knowledge at Cambridge University,” Renaissance Forum [http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/], vol. 3 (spring, 1998), 25 paragraphs. Rept. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, ed., Larry Trudeau, vol. 82, Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2003.
15. “Front Matter and the Physical Makeup of Nature's Pictures.” Women's Writing, vol. 4 (1997 appeared summer 1998), pp. 353 - 367.
16. “The Cavendishes, the Evelyns, and Teasing in Verse and Prose,” The Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, vols. 16 and 17 (1995 - 1996, appeared 1998) pp. 161 - 186.
17. “The Language of Gender and a Textual Problem in Aphra Behn's The Rover,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen [journal of the Modern Language Society of Finland], vol. 96, 1995, pp. 283 - 293.
18. “The Narrator in Aphra Behn’s The Fair Jilt,” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik [Univ. of Tübingen, Germany], vol. 41, 1994, pp. 131 - 138.
19. “Aphra Behn and The Abraham's Sacrifice Case,” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 56, summer, 1993, pp. 319 - 326.
20. “Margaret Cavendish on Her Own Writing: Evidence from Revision and Handmade Correction.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 85, September, 1991, pp. 297 - 307.
21. “Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century and the Editors of learned Journals,” Editors Notes, vol. 10, fall, 1991, pp. 40 - 43.
22. “Problems with Editing Margaret Cavendish,” Renaissance English Text Society Publications, January 1991, pp. 1 - 17. Reprinted in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill, Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1993, pp. 239 - 252.
23. “Fancy and the Family: Self-Characterizations of Margaret Cavendish,” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 53, summer, 1990, pp. 199 - 209.
24. With Martine Rey. “Letters by Women in England, the French Romance, and Dorothy Osborne.” In The Politics of Gender, vol. 12 of Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies. Kirksville, MO, 1989, pp. 149 - 160.
25. “Carew's Funerary Poetry and the Paradox of Sincerity,” Studies in English Literature, vol. 25, January, 1985, pp. 127 - 144. Reprinted by Gale Reprints, summer, 1990.
26. “A Gathering of Emblem Books,” Books at Iowa (1971), pp. 3 - 7.
c. Other academic publications (reviews, dictionary articles, etc)
1. Review of Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century: English Women’s Writing and the Public Sphere, for Journal of the American Academy of Religion, forthcoming December 2005.
2. Review of Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century, for Seventeenth Century News, delivered fall 2004.
3. Review of Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Genre, Exile, for Early Modern English Studies, June, 2004.
4. “Margaret Cavendish,” The Milton Encyclopedia, ed. Thomas Corns, Yale University Press, delivered April, 2003.
5. “Margaret Cavendish,” commissioned for The Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography, Greenwood Press, delivered April 2003, to be published in 2005.
6. Review of Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Basic Books, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Online Book Reviews, May 2004.
7. Review of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, for Seventeenth-Century News, spring of 2003.
8. Review of Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past 1660 - 1781, for Seventeenth-Century News, spring of 2003.
9. “The Variety by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle,” for Compendium of Renaissance Drama, finished and accepted August, 2002.
10. “’Said the Duke’ and ‘She Answered’: Reporting Clauses and Revision in Two of Cavendish’s Romances,” Abstracts: International Conference on the History of the English Language, 2002.
11. “English Lotteries and ‘The Lotterie,’ a Manuscript Play Probably by Margaret Cavendish,” Proceedings of the Margaret Cavendish Society, an abstract of the paper presented at the Margaret Cavendish Society Meeting, 2001, http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/mcs
12. “Margaret Cavendish,” for The New Dictionary of National Biography, accepted (4,000 words), publication 2004.
13. “Best Books of the Century on the Renaissance,” Ben Jonson Journal [invited half-page appraisal], 2000.
14. "M. Cavendish in Antwerp," Abstract from the International Margaret Cavendish Society meeting, Paris, 1999, http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/mcs/parisabs.html#fitzmaurice.
15. “Margaret Cavendish,” Encyclopedia of Life Writing, ed., Margaretta Jolly, vol. 1, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001, pp. 187 – 188.
16. Review of Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind, for Seventeenth Century News, 1999.
17. Textual introduction to Nature's Pictures by Margaret Cavendish for the Brown University Women Writers Project electronic texts, 1998.
18. General Introduction to The Bridals by Margaret Cavendish for the Brown University Women Writers Project electronic texts, 1997.
19. Review of Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660 - 1820, for Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1994.
20. Review of Women's Diaries, Letters, and Journals, for Sixteenth Century Journal, 1990.
21. Review of Renaissance Rereadings, for Sixteenth Century Journal, 1989.
22. Review of The Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family, for Sixteenth Century Journal, 1988.
23. Review of Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, for Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 1988.
24. Conference Proceedings: "Canon Formation and Women Authors of the English Renaissance," Deutcher Anglisten Tag, 1987.
25. Review of The Patriarchy of Shakespeare's Comedies, for Sixteenth Century Journal, 1987.
26. Review of Masterless Men: Vagrancy in England from 1560 to 1640, for Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 1987.
27. Review of Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference, for Sixteenth Century Journal, 1986.
28. Review of Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition, for Sixteenth Century Journal, 1986.
29. Review of The Professional Player in Shakespeare's Time, for Sixteenth Century Journal, 1985.
30. Review of William Temple's Analysis of Sidney's Apology for Poetry, for Neo-Latin News, 1985.
31. Review of Praise in The Faerie Queene, for Sixteenth Century Journal, 1983.
32. Review of The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry, for Sixteenth Century Journal, 1983.
33. Review of Charles de Bouvelles, 1479 - 1553, for Neo-Latin News, 1979.
34. Review of Nicholas Bacon's Great House Sententiae, for Neo-Latin News, 1978.
35. "Spenser at Kalamazoo, 1978," for Spenser Newsletter, 1978.
36. Review of The Growth of a Personal Voice: Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene, for Sixteenth Century Journal, 1977.
37. Printed commentary on "The Concept of Character in The Faerie Queene," Spenser at Kalamazoo, microfiche, Cleveland State University (1977), 275 -279.
3. Presentations at Professional Meetings and for Academic Audiences
1. “EEBO, LION, and Knowledge Transfer,” Digital Partnerships Conference, Sheffield-Hallam University, June, 2006.
2. “Comic Letters on Courtship and Marriage: Angell Day, Margaret Cavendish, and Dorothy Osborne,” Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, 2006.
3. “Collections of Scenes by Margaret and William Cavendish,” International Margaret Cavendish Society, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
4. “Dress, Dressing Up, and Margaret Cavendish,” Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, UK, 2005.
5. “Margaret Cavendish, Family, and the Attack on St. John’s Abbey in 1642,” Renaissance Society of America, New York, 2004.
6. “Scholarly Editions, Teaching Editions, and the Recovery of Early Texts,” roundtable sponsored by the MLA Session on Editions, Modern Language Association of America, San Diego, 2003.
7. “The Literary and Intellectual Courtship of Margaret Cavendish,” International Margaret Cavendish Society, Chester, UK, 2003.
8. “Markers of Style in the Seventeenth-Century Prose Romance Written by Women: The Case of Margaret Cavendish,” International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Glasgow, 2002.
9. “Shakespeare and Cavendish Read Aloud in Seventeenth Century England,” Shakespeare Association of America, Minneapolis, 2002. Revised expanded version for Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 2002.
10. Response to “Challenging Tradition: Uses of Evidence in Literary and Historical Interpretation,” Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Tempe, 2002.
11. “English Lotteries and ‘The Lotterie,’ a Manuscript Play Probably by Margaret Cavendish," International Margaret Cavendish Society, Wheaton College, MA, 2001.
12. "Inferred Stage Directions in the Notes and the Introductions of Editions," Shakespeare Association of America, Miami, 2001.
13. "Margaret Cavendish, Family, and the John Booth Confession," with Stephanie Karles, Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Tempe, 2001.
14. "Team Teaching Shakespeare in an Electronic Classroom," with Susan Fitzmaurice, Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal, 2000.
15. "Fear, Fun, and Ambition in Newcastle’s Poetry and Drama," annual meeting of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, 2000.
16. "Music and Courting Couples in William Cavendish's The Variety," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Tempe, 1999.
17. "Margaret Cavendish in Antwerp," third annual conference of the International Margaret Cavendish Society," Paris, 1999.
18. "Cavendish Family Nonsense," annual meeting of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, 1999.
19. "Margaret Cavendish and Various Canonical Views of English Literature," Modern Language Association of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1998.
20. "Appreciation of Place While in Exile: Margaret Cavendish in Antwerp," Conference on Representing Place, Northern Arizona University, 1998.
21. "Motives for Argumentation and the Biographical-Autobiographical Writing of Margaret Cavendish," Forms of Persuasion: The Fourth International, Interdisciplinary conference in the early Modern Period, University of Reading, 1998.
22. "Jane Barker, the Tree of Knowledge, and Learning at Cambridge University," Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Flagstaff, 1998.
23. "The Cavendishes, the Evelyns, and Teasing in Verse and Prose," Conference on Margaret Cavendish, Hertford College, Oxford University, 1997.
24. "Teaching Women Writers and Shakespeare's Romances," The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Banff, Canada, 1997.
25. "Innocence, Absence, and Reason in Valentinian: The Lives of John and Elizabeth Rochester," English Graduate Student Conference, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, 1997.
26. "Margaret Cavendish, Melancholia, and the 'Contagion of Gossiping,'" Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance studies, Tempe, 1997.
27. "Frontispieces, Prefaces, and Commendatory Verses in Books by Margaret Cavendish," Margaret Cavendish Reading Group, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1996.
28. "The Exotic and the Familiar in the Life and Writings of Margaret Cavendish," The University College of Ripon York St. John, York, 1996
29. "'The Lotterie' and The Witts Triumvirate: Literary Interactions of Margaret and William Cavendish," Conference on Margaret Cavendish, The University of East Anglia, 1996.
30. "The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Rochester," Oxford University, 1995.
31. "Margaret and William Cavendish: Dialogue and Collaboration in the Writing of a Seventeenth-Century Married Couple." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Meeting, Spokane, WA, 1995
32. "The Language of Playfulness in the Poetry and Prefaces of Margaret and William Cavendish," Language and Style in Early Modern English, Fifth Cambridge Colloquium, Cambridge University, 1995.
33. "Margaret and William Cavendish on the Subject of Marriage: The Case of John Evelyn," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association," Logan, UT, 1995.
34. "Benedick's Tactics and Love in Much Ado About Nothing," Comedies of Love and Power: Shakespeare in Performance -- 1595 to 1995," a public program for the Arizona Humanities Council, Flagstaff, 1995.
35. "Frontispieces, Text, and the Presentation Copies of Books by Margaret Cavendish," South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Salt Lake City, UT, 1995.
36. "Paleography and the Poetry of Elizabeth Rochester," Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1994.
37. "Ephelia, Aphra Behn, and Rochester: The Manuscript Tradition," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Meeting, Colorado Springs, 1994.
38. "Aphra Behn as Woman and Writer of Fiction," University of Tübingen, 1994.
39. "Husbands and Wives: Men and Women Writing at the End of the Seventeenth Century," University of Düsseldorf, 1994.
40."Self-parody in the Works of Margaret Cavendish and the Earl of Rochester," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Meeting, Jackson Hole, WY, 1994.
41. "Parody and Autobiography in Sociable Letters," Symposium on "Margaret Cavendish: Seventeenth-Century Poet, Dramatist, and Philosopher," Birkbeck College, The University of London, 1993.
42."Aphra Behn and the Abraham's Sacrifice Case," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Meeting, Flagstaff, 1993.
43. “The Narrator in Aphra Behn's The Fair Jilt, English Department, Arizona State University, 1993.
44. "'Whe,' 'Why,' and the Language of Gender in Aphra Behn's The Rover," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Las Cruces, NM, 1992.
45. "'Perfect Integrity': Letters Between Men and Women in Early Modern England," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Philadelphia, 1991.
46. "Problems in Editing Margaret Cavendish," Modern Language Association of America, Chicago, 1990.
47. "People and Playfulness in the Sociable Letters of Margaret Cavendish, Conference on "The Woman Question: 1590-1690" at Arizona State University, 1990.
48. Seminar Leader, on Katherine Kendall Temple's letters, "Attending to Women in Renaissance England," a conference sponsored by the University of Maryland, 1990.
49. "Margaret Cavendish and the Canon of Seventeenth Century English Literature," Oxford University and the University of Tübingen 1990.
50. "Fancy and the Family: Two Self-Characterizations of Margaret Cavendish," Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1990.
51. "Margaret Cavendish on Her Own Writing: Evidence from Revision and Handmade Correction," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Missoula, 1990.
52. "Fancy and the Family: Visual Self-Definitions of Margaret Cavendish," The Shirley Society, Cambridge University, 1989.
53. "Some Problems with the Manuscripts of Katherine Temple," Shakespeare Association of America, Austin, 1989.
54. "Margaret Cavendish and Women's Writing in Seventeenth Century England," University of California at Los Angeles and the Huntington Library, 1989.
55, "Self-Conscious Authorship: Margaret Cavendish and the Female Tradition," South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Shreveport, 1989.
56. "Women and Family Relationships in the Seventeenth Century." Modern Language Association Meeting, New Orleans, 1988.
57. "The Language of English Renaissance Women in the Familiar Letter," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, 1988.
58. "The Familiar Letter in the English Renaissance: A writers Workshop for Women," Western Association of Women Historians, Huntington Library, 1988.
59. "The Familiar Letter and Women Authors of the English Renaissance," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Meeting, Fort Collins, 1988.
60. "Mary Sidney Herbert's Antonie: Conflicting Claims of Spouse and Children," Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Huntington Library, 1988.
61. "Dorothy Osborne and the Familiar Letter in Renaissance England," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Tempe, 1987.
62. "Canon Formation and Women Authors of the English Renaissance," Deutcher Anglisten Tag, Tübingen, 1987.
63. "Elizabeth Cary's Mariam and Jacobean Marriage," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Meeting, Colorado Springs, 1987.
64. "Crashaw, Patronage, and Emblem Literature," Heidelberg University and Oxford University, 1986.
65. "London and Literature, 1540-1640," Brigham Young University Study Abroad Centre, London, 1986.
66. "Davenant's Madagascar: Poems and Patronage in the 1630s," University of Lancaster, 1986.
67. "'Lat the Woman Tell Hir Tale': The Wife of Bath and Chaucer's Adversary System," Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 1985.
68. "'The Figure of Abuse' and 'the Far-Fet': Rhetorical Theory and English Renaissance Literature," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Milwaukee, 1983.
69. "The Poetics of Wonder in Elizabethan Fiction," prepared commentary on a paper by Arthur Kinney, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, 1982.
70. "The Concept of Character in The Faerie Queene," Prepared commentary, Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 1977.
71. "The Peredexion Tree, the Balm, and Spenser's Tree of Life," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Albuquerque, 1973.
FUNDED EXTERNAL GRANTS
1. Project Director: “The Language of the Law,” a public program at the Phoenix Downtown Public Library, Arizona Humanities Council, 2003, Project total: $3,087.
2. Project Director: “Shakespeare on Film,” a public program at the Phoenix Downtown Public Library, Arizona Humanities Council, 2002, Project total: $1,000.
3. Project Director: "American Indian Literature in Context." Five-week summer institute for secondary teachers in Tuba City, AZ. National Endowment for the Humanities, 2001, Project total: $152,320.
4. Project Director: "Shakespeare's Comedies of Love and Power, 1595 - 1995. Public program. Arizona Humanities Council, 1995, Project total: $5,434.
5. Project Director: "Women in the Middle Ages," a two-day public program in Kingman, AZ. Arizona Humanities Council, 1992. Project total: $10,000.
6. Project Director, "Women Writing the Familiar Letter in Renaissance England," a weekend workshop for secondary teachers. Arizona Humanities Council, 1989. Project total: $15,000.
7. Project Director: "Women Authors of Renaissance England," a summer seminar for secondary teachers. Arizona Humanities Council, 1988. Project total: $25,105.
8. Project Director: "Women as Authors and Audience in Shakespeare's England," a set of weekend seminars for secondary teachers. Arizona Humanities Council, 1986. Project total: $31,000.
9. Project Director: "The Lure of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance." Public Program. Arizona Humanities Council, 1986. Project total, $18,000.
10. Fellowship: "Davenant's Madagascar Poems and Patronage in the 1630s," William Andrews Clark Library, 1984. $350.
11. Project Director: "English Literature and the Rise of Representative Government," National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984. Project total: $68,000.
12. Fellowship: "Medieval Latin," National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for College Teachers. UCLA, 1978. Tuition, board, and room.
13. Fellowship: "Mythography and Iconography in The Faerie Queene." Newberry Library, Chicago, 1973. $700.
REVIEWING FOR JOURNALS, PRESSES, AND FUNDING AGENCIES
Ashgate Press, Vermont.
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Conference volume for 1997.
Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, editorial board.
Broadview Press, Canada.
Canada Council.
Eighteenth-Century Women.
English Literary Renaissance.
Huntington Library Quarterly.
In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism.
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Pennsylvania State University Press.
Renaissance Quarterly.
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
University of Michigan Press.
JURIES FOR AWARDS
Alan Dupont Breck Award for best graduate student paper given at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Meeting.
Delno C. West Award for best paper given by a senior scholar at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Meeting.
Delno C. West Award for best NAU History Department faculty publication.
NAU Graduate College awards for best graduate teaching assistants.
NAU Graduate College awards for best entries in Graduate Student Exposition
Koon Prize Essay for best paper given at the annual meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.
Sylvia Bowerbank Award for a Younger Scholar, International Margaret Cavendish Soceity.
EXTERNAL REVIEWS FOR PROMOTION, TENURE, AND SABBATICAL
Brigham Young University. Associate Professor with tenure.
McMaster University. Professor.
Montana State University. Sabbatical.
University of Northern Iowa. Associate Professor with tenure.
Utah State University. Associate Professor with tenure.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
1. President, The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 1993 - 1995. Member, current.
2. Editor, Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 1979 - 1990.
3. President, Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1997. Member, current.
4. Board of Directors, Margaret Cavendish Society, 1997 - current. Book Review editor, Margaret Cavendish Newsletter, 1998 - 1999.
5. Research Board, Brown University Women Writers Project, 1998 - 2001.
6. Treasurer, The Council of Editors of Learned Journals, 1988.
7. Member, Renaissance Society of America, current.
8. Member, Renaissance English Text Society, current.
9. Member, Modern Language Association of America, current.
10. Member, Shakespeare Association of America, current. Organizer of a seminar for the 3002 meeting on “Cavendish, Shakespeare, and Renaissance Drama.”
GENERAL COORDINATOR OF PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
1. Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Meeting, Flagstaff, 1979. (125 registered).
2. Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Meeting (with Delno West), Grand Canyon, 1987. (250 registered).
3. Linguistics and Literature Symposium, Flagstaff, 1992. (30 faculty and graduate students from NAU, ASU, and the U of A).
4. Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Meeting (with Anne Scott), Flagstaff, 1993. (175 registered).
6. "Men and Women Writing about Men and Women" (with Anne Scott), Flagstaff, 1995. (35 faculty and graduate students from NAU, plus three outside visitors from the US and England).
7. Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Flagstaff, 1998. (75 registered).
STATE ACADEMIC SERVICE
NAU representative to the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (based in Tempe). Coordinate out-of-state scholars with ASU and the U of A. Chair NAU Medieval and Renaissance Studies Committee. 1982 - present.
NAU COMMITTEES
University
University Liberal Studies Review Committee (ad hoc, 1978).
University Organized Research Committee (two three-year terms, one appointed and one elected).
University Graduate Studies Committee, includes membership on the UGC Review (Executive) Committee.
Provost’s Academic Computing Advisory Committee.
College
Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee
Department
Graduate Studies Committee (Chair for 6 years).
Undergraduate Studies Committee.
Faculty Status Committee (Chair).
Search Committee for Medieval Literature Position (Chair).
Search Committee for English Education Position (Chair).
Annual Review (of faculty performance) Committee (Co-chair with Jane Woodman).
Graduate Symposium (Chair for 2 years).
NAU COURSES TAUGHT
English 102 and 103 (Composition, 10 years at 3 classes per semester).
English 104 (Composition for Speakers of other Languages, mainly Navajo and Hopi).
Honors 197 (Replaced English 102 for Honors Students).
Honors 198 (Replaced English 103 for Honors Students).
Honors 190 (Replaces English 105 for Honors Students).
English 230 (Introduction to Literature, a regular course for 10 years).
English 231 (British Literature Survey, a regular course for 10 years).
English 327 (British Fiction after 1900).
English 336 (British Poetry to 1750).
English 430 (Senior Seminar in British Literature, a regular course for 10 years).
English 460 (Senior Seminar in Literary History, a regular course for 10 years).
English 421/460 (Seminars in the History of the English Language and Literary History, team taught with Susan Fitzmaurice).
English 500 (Graduate Literary Studies)
English 553 (Shakespeare, also taught statewide in Mesa, AZ).
English 640 (Renaissance Literature).
English 641 (Eighteenth Century Literature)
English 662 (Literary Period or Genre Studies, frequently taught as Fictions Old and New, also taught statewide in Mesa, AZ).
COURSES TAUGHT ABROAD
Universitaet Tuebingen, West Germany, 1986
Ubung (literally “exercise”) – English Renaissance Women Writers.
Lecture – Seventeenth Century British Literature.
Haupt Seminar (advanced seminar) – Poetry of Hopkins, Yeats, and Auden.
Cambridge University, UK, 1989
Tutor – English Renaissance Literature for 10 student from St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge University.
Tutor – English Renaissance Literature for 3 students from Homerton College, Cambridge, University.
Graduate Tutor – English Renaissance Women Writers for one graduate student from King’s College.
Nottingham-Trent University, UK, 1993
British Literature Survey, 1900 to the Present (3 sections of 20 each).
American Literature Survey, 19th Century (2 sections of 20 each).