Expertise

His published research includes work on Shakespearean drama, Renaissance rhetoric, and eighteenth-century autobiography.

Subject Area:

  • Renaissance Literature.
Past Affiliations

Director, Master of Liberal Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Director, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Associate Professor, Women's & Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Visiting Professor, Anglais, Université de Lille 3 (past)

Chair, Women's & Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend

Visiting Professor, Office of University General Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong (past)

Communities
English
Degrees
PhD, University of California Irvine
BA, Beloit College
Keywords
creative writing fiction civil rights history book publishing, translation, shakespeare, university press, editing, poetry public radio
Honors

Academy of American Poets Prize, Beloit College, 1983; 1984

Junior Year Fellowship, Bread Loaf School of English, Summer 1984

Phi Beta Kappa, Beloit College, 1985

Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1986-1988

Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University South Bend, 1998

Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, 2005

Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Writing, Radio and Television News Directors Association , 2007

Associations
South Bend Civic Theater, Popular Culture Association, Modern Language Association