EDUCATION
Tufts University, Ph.D., English
Tufts University, M.A., English
Brown University, B.A. with Honors, Women's Studies/Modern Culture and Media
New York University, Paris, France, French Literature and Language Studies, Summer, 1986


EXPERIENCE
Tufts University
Director of English and Full-time Lecturer
Visual and Critical Studies Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 2004 – present

The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
Assistant Professor in Culture, Text, and Langue Area
September 2001 – August 2004

Pine Manor College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Adjunct Instructor
January 2000 – June 2001


COURSES TAUGHT
Tufts University / The School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Full-time Lecturer Visual and Critical Studies Department, Director of English Program, Director of First Year Program

• Poetry: Past and Present (English 120)
• Critical Theory II: Filming Theory (English 0117)
• Queer African American Studies (Independent Study)
• Shakespeare's Art (English 0118)
• Shocking Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Film I (English 0118A)
• History of Poetics (English 0113)
• Histories of Sexuality (English 0002)
• Literature of Modernism (English 0114)
• Queer Literature (English 0002)
• Critical Theory I: Self, Sex, and Psychoanalysis (English 115)
• Critical Theory II: The Art of Postmodernism (English 0119)
• The Rhythms of Poetry (English 113)
• Textual Image / Visual Text (English 2/English 18 and Text Image Arts, co-taught)
• Writing Art (English 0001)
• Reading Art (English 0002)

Excellence in Teaching Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2012

Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2008

Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, Spring 2000

Award for research on Renaissance scholarship and electronic technology from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, Spring 2000

Recipient of a Teaching Fellowship from the Writing, Thinking and Speaking Center and the English Department, Tufts University, Fall 1999

Recipient of the Center For Humanities and Technology Fellowship for the following academic years: 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-00

Graduate Student Fellowship, Department of English, 1995-2000

Galway Kinnell Poetry Award, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, April, 1992

Alpha Delta Phi Poetry Award, Brown University, 1986


PUBLICATIONS
Image Conscious: Iconoclasm and the Reformation of Time in Early Modern English Literature, book manuscript in progress.

"The gap we shall make in time": Emblematics and the Queering of History in Cymbeline," forthcoming in Fictional Histories/Historical Fictions: Reconceptualizing History in Early Modern Literature, ed.s Elizabeth Ketner and Daniel Brayton, Ashgate.

"'my name engrav'd herein': Donne's Sacramental Temporality," Exemplaria, vol. 23.4, Winter 2011.

Review of Ideas and Images in English and Continental Emblem Books: 1550-1700, by Elana Calogero, Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 63.3, Fall 2010.

Review of The Heart in the Age of Shakespeare. (Cambridge UP, 2008) by William W. E. Slights in South Atlantic Review, vol. 75.3, Summer 2010.

Review of Shakespeare and Tolerance (Cambridge UP, 2008) by B. J. Sokol, Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 41.3, Fall 2010.

Review of Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism (Stanford UP, 2008) by Regina Mara Schwartz, South Central Review, vol. 27.1-2, 2010.

Review of Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature (U of Chicago P) by Mary Beth Rose, Marlowe Society of America Reviews, vol. 24.2, Fall 2004.

Interview for The History of Homosexuality, documentary film by Circle of Good Kharma Productions, Portland, Oregon, The Learning Channel, 2003.

"Hell and Hypertext Have No Limits: Electronic Editing and the Crises in Criticism," Text Technology, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn, 1999; Early Modern Literary Studies, January, 2000.

The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: An Electronic Edition, (www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html) Includes my own (modernized) version of Doctor Faustus with original links to sources. Published/edited at the Perseus Project, 1998-2001.

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, New Variorum electronic edition, co-editor, Perseus Project / MLA (Modern Language Association) New Variorum Shakespeare Committee, 1998-2000.

Shakespeare's Richard III, New Variorum electronic edition, editor, Perseus Project, 1998.

The Julius Caesar Site: Electronic Shakespeare, includes New Variorum edition of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and links to sources, editor, Perseus Project, 1997.


PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES
"[A]s a sacred symbol it may dwell': Spenser's Postsecularity"
RSA (Renaissance Society of America), San Diego, April 2014

"Astonishing Time in Spenser"
RSA (Renaissance Society of America), San Diego, April 2013

"Making Sex, Making Sense, Making Art," invited lecture for Boston University MFA graduate school, February 2013.

"Art as Drag," invited lecture for SMFA Core Program, February 2013.

"Character, Criticality, and Creativity through Butler and Saussure," invited lecture for SMFA Core Program, October 2012

"Emblematics and the Romance of Time in Cymbeline"
RSA (Renaissance Society of America), Washington D.C., April 2012

"What's so Queer about Allegory?: Francis Bacon and Temporal Successivity"
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association), New Orleans, April 2010

"Early Modern Emblems and Time"
GEMCS (Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies), Dallas, October 2009

"Astonishing Time in Spenser's The Faerie Queene"
Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University, April 2009

"Imagining Astonishment in Spenser's The Faerie Queene"
GEMCS (Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies), Philadelphia, November 2008

"Allegory and Iconoclasm: Sacramental Time and the Erotic in John Donne's Poesis"
MLA (Modern Language Association), Washington DC, December 2005

"Idol Time: Temporal Vulnerability and the Reformation of Desire in The Winter's Tale"
MMLA (Midwest Modern Language Association), Milwaukee, November 2005

"Donne's Emblematic Desire: Iconoclasm in 'The Relic'"
SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association), New Orleans, November 2004

"'The same dead thing alive': Imogen's Reformation in Cymbeline"
MMLA (Midwest Modern Language Association), Chicago, November 2003

"Scientific Generation and the Romance of Time in Cymbeline," seminar presentation
SAA (Shakespeare Association of America), New Orleans, April 2003

"The Shakespearean Literary: Iconoclasm and Idolatry in The Winter's Tale"
SCSA (Sixteenth Century Studies Association), San Antonio, October 2002

"'See but his picture in this Tragic Glass': Figuring Rhetoric in Tamburlaine"
Icons of Change: The Image in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, The Citadel, February 2002

"Unseemly Gestures and Lavish Tongues: The Refiguration of Rhetoric in Early Modern Theater"
MLA (Modern Language Association), Marlowe Society of America, New Orleans, 2001

"Eve at Milton's Mirror"
Invited Lecture, Pine Manor College, Spring 2000

"Earning a place in the story": the New Variorum Antony and Cleopatra On Line"
MLA (Modern Language Association), Chicago, 1999

"Shakespeare and the World Wide Web of Antony and Cleopatra"
SAA (Shakespeare Association of America), San Francisco, 1999

"Electronic Technologies and Graduate Work in the Humanities"
Annual Institute on Humanities and Technology, Princeton University,1998

"Re-Editing the Renaissance Electronically: The Special Case of Doctor Faustus"
Joint session of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, University of Ottawa, 1998

"Riddling Women and Refiguring Loss in All's Well That Ends Well"
WVSA (West Virginia Shakespeare Association Annual Conference), Marshall University, 1997

"Bi-textuality: Toward Bisexual Theory"
CLAGS Queer Studies Conference, CUNY, 1997

"'Whoredom is next door to the Magistrates' in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure"
Tufts University, Fall 1997

"Difference Visible: the Battle of the Gazes in Paradise Lost"
Peripheral Visions: Tufts University Annual Graduate Student Conference, Fall 1996


RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Fellow and Electronic Editor at The Perseus Project, Tufts University, directed by Tufts Classics professor, Gregory Crane, Fall 1996 - Spring 2000.

Responsibilities and projects included:

• Working in conjunction with MLA Shakespeare Variorum Committee,to digitize the upcoming print New Variorum print editions of Shakespeare's plays, beginning with Antony and Cleopatra. Also worked on digitizing other old Variorum editions of the plays, in addition to several Shakespearean lexica (Dyce, Schmidt, Onions).
• Developed the Web version of The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: An Electronic Edition (www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html) that currently offers all of Marlowe's texts, both original and modernized, in multiple versions, with evolving links to contextual sources
• Developed the Web version of The Julius Caesar Website (www.perseus.tufts.edu/JC) that includes multiple editions of Shakespeare's play, featuring in particular an early Variorum edition with full commentary and links to digitized Classical sources
• Developed the Web version of Shakespeare's Richard III, New Variorum edition

SERVICE TO PROFESSION 
Co-organized roundtable Teaching Literature and Writing in Art Schools Today, part of the AWP (American Writers Project) annual convention, March 2013

Reviewer of article submissions for Journal of Midwest / Modern Language Association, Spring 2006

Chair of Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism session, designated topic: Shakespeare and Time, at Midwest Modern Language Association, November 2005

Chair of Naturalizations, Graduate student conference with visiting faculty keynote (Mary Ann Doane, Brown University) at Tufts University, October, 1997

Chair of Peripheral Visions, Graduate student conference with visiting faculty keynote (Diana Fuss, Princeton University) at Tufts University, October, 1996


SERVICE TO EMPLOYING INSTITUTIONS: TUFTS / SMFA, EVERGREEN
Member of the Working Group on Curriculum as part of Strategic Planning Initiative, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Winter 2011-2012

Co-Chair of Curriculum Committee, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Fall 2011-Spring 2012 and member Fall 2009 – Spring 2012

Member of the Budget Committee, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Fall 2005-Spring 2008

Director of the English Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts: hiring, training, supervising 9 English Instructors; coordinating and training faculty and undergraduate consultants at The Writing Studio and now coordinating a Writers Reading/Lecture series, bringing in authors to speak at the school: Spring 2005-present

Faculty member coordinating college orientation program for queer students at The Evergreen State College, Fall 2003

Faculty member co-coordinating the first year student orientation program, Beginning the Journey, a two credit course introducing students to independent college life and to the culture of Evergreen. The Evergreen State College, designed pilot program in Spring 2002 and taught in Fall 2002

Chair of hiring committee for African American Literature position at The Evergreen State College, 2001-02

Tufts Graduate Student Council, elected representative for English graduate students, also served on Health Service Committee during the academic year 1998-1999

Tufts University Higher Education Initiative: "Excellence in Scholarship and Research," selected graduate student member of the faculty/administration planning committee and co-facilitator during a workshop at Tufts, Spring 1998


ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
English Department Chair/Teacher, School One, Providence, R.I., 1989 - 1995. Administered high school English Department, coordinated full- and part-time faculty members, designed and taught the following literature and writing courses:

• Twentieth Century American Literature, Nineteenth Century American Literature, Civil Rights Literature, African American Women's Writing, Native American Literature, American Women Writers, Coming of Age Literature, Literature of the Supernatural, Introduction to Philosophy, British Poetry, Advanced Poetry Writing, Art/English Book Production, Basic Writing Skills

Independent Video Producer, 1988-1993
Responsibilities included writing, directing, shooting and editing. The following is a selection of videos produced:

• In Our Own Words, a 30-minute documentary for the Anorexia/Bulimia Association of Rhode Island (national distribution through ABARI)
• Documentary on English as a second language for Brown University's Multifunctional Resource Center for Language and Culture in Education 
• Documentary on urban poverty and community organizing in Providence, Rhode Island, for Direct Action for Rights and Equality 
• There's No Place Like Home, 30-minute documentary on childhood sexual abuse
• Co-Produced with Annie Goldson and Chris Bratton: 60 minute program for Deep Dish Television's censorship series on language (presented at New York Museum of Modern Art [MOMA] and aired on New York cable access), 1992