Address:  8906 SW 17th Avenue

Gainesville FL 32607

Telephone: (352) 332-6515

E-Mail: IRAC@ENGLISH.UFL.EDU
 

EDUCATION
 

B.A. 1962 New Mexico State University(English With Highest Honors)

M.A. 1963 Northwestern University (English -- University Fellow)

Ph.D 1966 Northwestern University (English --University Tutorial Fellow, 1963-64; University Fellow, 1964-65; Inland Steel/Ryerson Foundation Fellow, 1965-66)
 
 
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 

University Tutorial Fellow, Northwestern University, Spring 1964

Lecturer (Capt. USAR), University of Maryland, Summer 1967

Assistant Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, 1968-72

Associate Professor, University of Florida, 1972-83

Professor, University of Florida, 1983-2007

Professor, Florida State University/State University System Abroad Program, Firenze, Fall 1993, Fall 2003

Professor, Florida State University Abroad Program, London, Summers 2001,  2004-07

Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, 2008

COURSES
 

Undergraduate: various composition, introduction to literature, freshman honors; myth courses in classics and humanities; world literature classical through present; and English literature surveys from ME through the present, advanced composition, Bible, English linguistics, Chaucer, 16th survey, Spenser, 17th survey, Milton, Tudor/Stuart drama, Shakespeare, 18th survey, departmental honors
 

Graduate: 16th and Spenser, Tudor/Stuart drama, 17th and Milton
 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
 

Phi Kappa Phi

Modern Language Association

South Atlantic MLA

National Council of Teachers of English

Florida College English Association

Renaissance Society of America

Southeastern Renaissance Society

Milton Society

United Faculty of Florida
 
 
 

AWARDS
 

The Johns Hopkins Summer Research Grant, 1970

ACLS Summer Grant, 1972

University of Florida Humanities Research Grant, Summer 1974

University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research Grant, Summer 1985

University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research Grant, Summer 1993

University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, 2005-07 
 
 

SERVICE
 

Secretary, The Johns Hopkins Philological Association, 1969-70

Curator, Tudor and Stuart Club, 1971-72

Graduate Coordinator, 1975-77

Undergraduate Coordinator & Associate Chair, 1979-80

Acting Chair, 1980-81, 1990-91, Spring 2007

Chair, 1994-99

Administrative Committee, South Atlantic Association of Departments of English, 1997-99

Reader for English Literary Renaissance, Exemplaria, Genre, Journal for Early Modern Culture Studies, Milton Studies, Modern Language Notes, South Atlantic Review, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Bucknell University Press, University of Florida Press, University of Georgia Press, Peter Lang, Oxford University Press

Grant Reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities
 
 
 

Committees
 

English Department:

Admissions and Awards (chair),

Alumni Affairs

Appointments (chair)

By-Laws

Council (elected, chair)

Course Loads (chair)

General Education

Graduate Essay Prize

Graduate Studies (chair)

Internship and Teaching Evaluation (chair)

Library

Merit Pay Guidelines

Ph.D. Screening (chair)

Tenure and Promotion (elected, chair)

Undergraduate Advising

Undergraduate Studies (chair)
 

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:

Associate Dean Search (several)

Chair Search, History

Chair Search, Romance Languages & Literature (twice)

Constitutional Review (chair)

Curriculum Committee (twice)

Dean's Advisory Council

Director of Dial Center for Written & Oral Communication Search

Honors (chair)

Humanities Council (chair)

Research Advisory

Steering (elected)

Travel

University Center for Excellence in Teaching. Board

University of Florida @ Santa Fe Community College--Groups
 

University:

Academic Freedom and Tenure (elected)

Career Evaluation and Placement

Howe Society. Board

Minority Mentor

Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship Review

Research Development Award Review

Salary Equity Appeals (chair)

Senate  (several times)

University Writing Program, Advisory Committee
 

State University System:

Pilot & Full Committee, Leveling and Common Prerequisites, SUS & FL Community

Colleges, Letters
 

United Faculty of Florida:

UFF/UF - president, executive vice president, executive committee, council, academic

affairs chair, membership chair, grievance representative and chair, stewards chair,

department steward

State - convention delegate, senator, STEP 2 grievance and arbitration representative, contract enforcement, strategic plan committee
 
 
 

PUBLICATIONS
 

Books
 

Christ Revealed: The History of the Neotypological Lyric in the English Renaissance Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1982.
 

Professional Playwrights: Massinger, Ford, Shirley, & Brome Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.
 

The Moral Art of Philip Massinger Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1993.
 

Comedy, Youth, Manhood in Early Modern England Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003.
 
Rhetorical Readings, Dark Comedies, and Shakespeare's Problem Plays  Gainesville: University  Press of Florida, 2007.

Essays
 

"Milton and the Image of God." JEGP 68 (1969): 422-31.
 

"Samuel Daniel's 'Complaint of Rosamond'." Ren. Quart. 23 (1970): 152-62.
 

"'Lord, in thee The beauty Lies in the discovery': 'Love Unknown' and Reading Herbert." ELH 39 (1972): 560-84. Reprinted in Essential Articles on George Herbert, ed. John R. Roberts (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Press, 1979): 473-93.
 

"Paradise Regained and the Gospel according to John." MP 71 (1973): 1-16.
 

"Christ on the Tower in Paradise Regained." Milton Quart. 8 (1974): 104-07.
 

"Messianic Humiliation and Exaltation." Milton Encyclopedia, ed. William B. Hunter, Jr. et al, 5 (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1978, 79): 108-10.
 

"Ministry of Redemption." Milton Encyclopedia, 5: 145-46.
 

"Repentance." Milton Encyclopedia 7: 112.
 

"Ben Jonson's Imitation." Criticism 20 (1978): 107-27.
 

"Balaam's Ass: Suture or Structure?" Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives, 2nd ed. Kenneth R.R. Gros Louis (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1982): 137-44.
 

"Character and Cosmos in Marston's Malcontent." Modern Language Studies 13 (1983): 80-96.
 

"'How witty's ruine': The Difficulties of Donne's 'Idea of a Woman' in the First of his Anniversaries." South Atlantic Review 53 (1988): 19-26.
 

"The Power of Integrity in Massinger's Women." The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print; Counterbalancing the Canon, ed. Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990): 63-79.
 

"A Problem of Knowing Paradise in Paradise Lost." Milton Studies 27 (1991): 183-207.
 

"Writing and Dueling in the English Renaissance." Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 7 (1995): 275-304.
 

"The Marital Double Standard in Tudor and Stuart Lives and Writing: Some Problems."
Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 9 (1997): 34-55.
 

"Comic Violence on the Late Tudor-Early Stuart Stage: a Theory & an Application."Exemplaria 13.1 (Spring 2001):  253-86.

"The Widow Hunt on the Tudor-Stuart Stage." Studies in EnglishLiterature 1500-1900 41 (Spring 2001):
399-416.

"'Measure for Measure': Chiasmus, Justice, and Mercy."   Style 35 (Spring 2001): 659-80.

"Shirley, James (bap. 1596, d. 1666)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) /article/25427/

“The Trappings of All’s Well That Ends Well” Style 39 (2005): 277-98.

 
Reviews

Annabel M. Patterson's Hermogenes and the Renaissance Seven Ideas of Style (Princeton, 1970) in Style 7 (1973): 198-201.

Richard S. Peterson's Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson, (Yale, 1981) in Criticism 24 (1982): 180-82.

Stevie Davies' Images of Kingship in 'Paradise Lost' (Missouri, 1983) in Christianity & Literature 34 (1985): 23-25.

Ernest B. Gilman's Iconoclasm and Poetry in the English Reformation: Down Went Dagon (Chicago, 1986) in Christianity & Literature 36 (1987): 42-44.

Hugh MacCallum's Milton and the Sons of God: The Divine Image in Milton's Epic Poetry (Toronto, 1986) in Christianity & Literature 37 (1988): 53-54.

Ritchie D. Kendall's The Drama of Dissent: The Radical Poetics of Nonconformity, 1380-1590 (North Carolina, 1986) in JEGP 87 (1988): 577-79.

C.A. Patrides' Figures in a Renaissance Context, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (Michigan, 1989) in Christianity and Literature 39 (1990): 332-34.

Mary Beth Rose's The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance
Drama (Cornell, 1988) in Christianity & Literature 42 (1993): 487-88.

P. G. Stanwood's edition, Of Poetry and Politics: New Essays on Milton and His World
(Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995) in Christianity & Literature 44
(1995): 230-32.

Laura Lunger Knoppers' Historicizing Milton: Spectacle, Power, and Poetry in
Restoration England (Georgia, 1994) in Christianity & Literature 44 (1995): 395-97.

Dale B. J. Randall's Winter Fruit: English Drama 1642-1660 (Kentucky, 1995) in
JEGP 96 (1997): 272-74.

Michael Neill's Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in English Renaissance Drama (Columbia, 2001) in Criticism 43 (2001): 225-28.

Andrew Gordon & Bernhard Klein's edition, Literature, Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge, 2001) in Seventeenth-Century News 60 (2002): 43-48.

Joshua Scodel's Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature (Princeton, 2002) in Seventeenth-Century News 61 (Spring-Summer 2003): 69-72.

Lisa M. Gordis’ Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England (Chicago, 2003) in Seventeenth-Century News 61 (Fall-Winter 2003):  210-13.

Marsha S. Robinson’s Writing the Reformation: Actes and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play (Ashgate, 2002) in Renaissance Quarterly 56.4 (Fall 2003): 184-85.

Jessica Wolfe's Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge, 2004) in Seventeenth-Century News 63 (Spring-Summer 2005):  14-17.

Mark S. Dawson's Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London (Cambridge, 2005) in Renaissance Quarterly 59.2 (Summer 2006): 654-55.

Judith H. Anderson's Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart London (Fordham, 2005) in Seventeenth-Century News 64 (Spring-Summer 2006):  8-11.

Jesse M. Lander’s Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2006) in Seventeenth-Century News 65 (Spring-Summer 2007): 65-68.

John G. Demaray's  From Pilgrimage to History; The Renaissance and Global Historicism (Brooklyn: AMS Press, 2006) in Seventeenth-Century News 65 (Fall-Winter 2007) :196-99.

Scott L. Newstok's edition of Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare (West Lafayette: Parlor Press, 2007) in Comparative Drama 42.2 (Summer 2008): 234-37