GRACE CLEVELAND TIFFANY

English Department

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, MI 49008

269/373-1595

269/387-2603

AREAS OF INTEREST AND EXPERTISE

Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and literature

ACADEMIC DEGREES

Ph.D., English, University of Notre Dame (1989)

Major field: Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

Dissertation: "Power Plays: The Construction of Kingship in Shakespeare's Henriad"

M.A., English, University of Notre Dame (1985)

B.A., cum laude, Duke University (1980). Majors: English and History

TEACHING

Fall, 1995- Professor (as of 2003), Western Michigan Univ. (WMU)

- Shakespeare (graduate and undergraduate: 2520, 4520, 6100, 6520, 6530)

- Drama (graduate and undergraduate: 4420, 6420)

- Renaissance Literature (graduate: 5320)

- M.A. Capstone Essay seminar (6900)

- British Literature I (3300)

- Literary Interpretation (1100)

- Graduate independent study in Renaissance literature

- Ph.D. dissertation committee service

- honors thesis committee service

1990-95 Asst. Prof. Univ. of New Orleans (UNO): Tenured, promoted to associate, 4/95

-- Introduction to Poetry and Drama

-- English Composition

-- M.A. Thesis Direction (Shakespeare)

-- Shakespeare's Early Plays

-- Shakespeare's Late Plays

-- Introduction to Shakespeare

-- Renaissance Revenge Tragedy (graduate)

-- Sixteenth-Century Literature (graduate)

-- Independent Study in Shakespeare

-- Independent Study in Greek Tragedy

-- British Literature 800-1800 A.D.

-- Western Civilization: The Greeks (honors, team-taught)

-- Honors Writing Seminar

-- Written Argumentation

1989-90 Visiting Assistant Professor, Fordham University

-- Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedy

-- Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton

-- Seventeenth-Century Poetry

-- Tutorial: Shakespeare's Comic Heroines

-- World Drama

1985-89 Instructor, University of Notre Dame

-- World Drama

-- Regular and Remedial English Composition and Literature

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1999-2000 General editor, WMU self-assessment report for NCA re-accreditation

1995-2000 Editorial Board, Comparative Drama

1995-97 Associate Editor, Comparative Drama

1993 Dramaturg, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (The Comedy of Errors)

1990 Dramaturg, Riverside Shakespeare Company, NYC (informal work with Artistic Director Timothy Oman)

1983-85 Professional writing (informational brochures and newsletter) for Kalamazoo

Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council (now Gateway Services), Kalamazoo, MI

1982-83 Professional writing for Robert J. Harmon & Assoc., a W.D.C. firm

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

Ed., The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. Johns Hopkins University Press. Forthcoming.

Love’s Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey in English Renaissance Literature. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2006.

Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Comic Androgyny. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1995.

Ed. and intro., Reformations: Religion and Rulership on the Sixteenth-Century English Stage.

Medieval Institute Publications, 1998 .

My Father Had a Daughter: Judith Shakespeare’s Tale. Berkley, 2003 (historical novel).

Will. Berkley, 2004 (historical novel) .

The Turquoise Ring. Berkley, 2005; in Hebrew by Opus Books, 2008, and in Turkish.

Ariel. HarperCollins, 2005 (historical novel).

BOOK CHAPTERS:

“Hamlet and Protestant Aural Theater,” Shakespeare’s Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet, ed. Beatrice Batson. Waco, TX: Baylor U P, 2006, 73-90.

“Borges and Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Borges.” Latin-American Shakespeares, ed. Bernice Kliman and Rick Santos. NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005, 145-65.

“Names in The Merchant of Venice.” The Merchant of Venice, ed. John and Ellen Mahon. NY: Routledge, 2002. 353-67.

“Calvinist Grace in Shakespeare’s Late Plays.” Selected Comedies and Late Romances of

Shakespeare from a Christian Perspective, ed. Beatrice Batson. NY: Mellen, 2002.

“Eden and the New World in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.” Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam, ed. Viorica Patea and María Eugenia Díaz-Sanchez. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2001. 45-52.

“Elizabethan Constructions of Kingship.” The Iconography of Power on the Renaissance Stage, ed. György Szönyi & Rowland Wymer, Papers in English & American Studies, vol. 8.Szeged, Hungary: Institute of English and American Studies, 2000. 89-116.

“How Revolutionary Is Cross-Cast Shakespeare?" Shakespeare: Text and Theater, ed. Lois Potter and Arthur Kinney. Newark: U of Del. P, 1999. 120-35.

ARTICLES:

“Law and Self-Interest in The Merchant of Venice.” PLL 42:4 (Fall 2006): 384-400.

“Hamlet, Reconciliation, and the Just State.” Renascence 58:2 (Winter 2005): 111-134.

“Hamlet and Protestant Aural Theater.” Christianity and Literature 52:3 (Spring 2003): 307-24;

republished by Thomson Gale, 2007.

“Shakespeare and Santiago de Compostela.” Renascence 54:2 (Winter 2002): 87-107.

“Calvinist Grace in Shakespeare’s Romances.” Christianity and Literature 49:4 (Summer 2000): 1-25.

"Shakespeare's Dionysian Prince." Renaissance Quarterly 52:2 (Summer 1999): 366-81.

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ARTICLES (cont.):

"Puritanism in Comic History: Destabilizing Hierarchy in the Henry Plays." Shakespeare Studies 26 (1998): 256-87.

"Macbeth, Paternity, and the Anglicization of James I." Studies in the Humanities 23:2 (December 1996): 148-62.

"Doing Much Ado with Undergraduates." Shakespeare and the Classroom 4:2 (Fall 1996): 68-71.

"Anti-Theatricalism and Revolutionary Desire in Hamlet: The Play Without the Play." The

Upstart Crow 15 (1995): 1-14.

"`That Reason Wonder May Diminish': Shakespeare, Androgyny, and the Theater Wars." The Huntington Library Quarterly 57:3 (Summer 1994): 213-39.

"Not Saying No: Female Self-Erasure in Troilus and Cressida." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 35:1 (Spring 1993): 44-56. Reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Michele Lee, Los Angeles: The Gale Group, 2001.

"Falstaff's False Staff: `Jonsonian' Asexuality in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Comparative Drama 26:3 (Fall 1992): 254-70. Reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism Yearbook, ed. Joseph Tardiff, Detroit: Gale Publications, Inc., 1994; and in Shakespearian Criticism, ed. Dana Barnes, Detroit: Gale Publications, Inc., Winter, 1998.

"Our Mutual Friend in `Eumaeus': Joyce Appropriates Dickens." Journal of Modern Literature 16:4 (Spring 1990): 643-46.

BOOK REVIEWS:

A. D. Nuttall, Shakespeare the Thinker. Christianity and Literature 57:3 (2008)
Julie Crawford, Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England.

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (forthcoming).

Kenneth Gross, Shakespeare’s Noise. Comparative Drama 35:3-4 (Spring 2002): 479-82

Patrick Cheney, Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession. Comparative Drama 34:1 (Spring, 2000): 121-24

Frank Whigham, Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama. Seventeenth-Century News 56:3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 80-82

John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon. Comparative Drama 31:2 (Summer 1997): 326-28

James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews. Comparative Drama 30:3 (Fall 1996): 415-17.

Alan Dessen, Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary. Comparative Drama 29:4 (Winter 1995-96): 532-34

John Drakakis, ed., New Casebooks: Antony and Cleopatra. The Shakespeare Newsletter 45:2 (225, Summer 1995): 42

Marco Mincoff, Things Supernatural and Causeless, and James Howe, A Buddhist's Shakespeare. Comparative Drama 29:2 (Summer 1995): 290-94

Anne Barton, Essays: Mainly Shakespearean. Comparative Drama 28:4 (Winter 1994-95): 539-42

David Farley-Hills, Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights: 1600-1606. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (October 1994): 367-71

Brian Vickers, Appropriating Shakespeare. Comparative Drama 28:2 (Summer 1994): 252-57

Graham Holderness, Nick Potter, and John Turner, Shakespeare: The Play of History. Shakespeare Studies 21 (1992): 274-78

Margaret P. Hannay, ed., Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works. Religion and Literature 20:2 (Summer 1988): 95-97

VARIA:

Periodical reviews for The Shakespeare Newsletter (quarterly), 1994 through present

Liner notes (with Delfeayo Marsalis), Branford Marsalis's Bloomington, CBS Records, April 1993

Editor (with Amy Silverman), Brad Blanton, Ph.D. Radical Honesty, NY: Dell, 1996 (psychology)

Comment, "Forum," PMLA 104:2 (March 1989): 217.

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WORK UNDER CONSIDERATION

Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, MLA (with Meg Dupuis)

Reborn in Ralligatash (novel), presently at Lobster Press

The Thirteenth One (novel), represented by Fifi Oscard Literary Agency

“Shakespeare’s Anti-Gallicism,” at Texas Studies in Literature and Language

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION / AWARDS

Invited (in 2007) to be 2008 keynote speaker, Wheaton College Summer Shakespeare Institute

College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award in Research and Creative Activity, 2007

Invited participant (with $900 award), Liberty Fund Annual Colloquium, Indianapolis, Oct., 2007

Invited lecturer for “The Vocation of Seeking Truth,” WMU Graduate College lecture series, 2007

Featured Speaker, “The Shylock Project,” Jewish Historical Society of Washington, D.C., May, 2007

Featured Writer, Western Illinois University Creative Writing Festival, 2007

Invited panelist, Kalamazoo College, community “Reading Together” event, February, 2007

Ariel (historical novel) listed as a Best Book for Young Adults by American Library Association, 2006

Invited speaker, George Mason University Lifelong Learning Institute, 2006

Invited speaker, Andrews University, 2005

Invited speaker, Central Michigan University, 2005

Invited to be one of panel of authors (subject: historical fiction), Ann Arbor Literary Festival, 2005

My Father Had a Daughter chosen by Booksense 76: Independent Booksellers’ 76 Best Books 2003

FRACASF grants, Western Michigan University, 1996, 2002, 2006

Sabbatical leave granted 2001-02 by WMU

Asked to edit WMU’s NCA university self-assessment report, 1999-2000

Invited lecturer, University of Salamanca, Spain, March, 1999

Invited speaker, Wheaton College Summer Shakespeare Institute, 2005, 2003, 1999, 1996

Selected to participate, Calvin College Faculty Seminar on Puritanism, 1997 -- $2500 grant

Invited speaker (on Shakespeare), Knox College, Oct., 1996

Invited speaker, Grand Valley State University’s Shakespeare Festival, 1996

University of New Orleans Summer Scholarship Funding, 1991, 1992, and 1994

1993 University of New Orleans English Department nominee for Outstanding Scholar Award

1992, 1993 University of New Orleans Liberal Arts College junior nominee for NEH Grant

University of New Orleans Liberal Arts Research Award, 1991

Notre Dame Zahm Grant for research overseas, 1988

1998-89 Notre Dame Dissertation Year Fellowship

Asked ongoingly to read mss. and articles, Palgrave-Macmillan, Journal of Comparative Literature, Com-

parative Drama, Christianity and Literature, PLL, Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme

Appointed (by C&L) to committee to evaluate the journal Christianity and Literature, 1997

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES: Participation, Presentations

“Shakespeare, the French, and the Geneva Bible." Keynote address, Wheaton Shakespeare Institute, June, 2008

“Shakespeare’s Anti-Gallicism,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS), Chicago, 2007

“Law and Self-Interest in The Merchant of Venice,” Ohio Shakespeare Conference, Nov., 2005

“The Just State in Hamlet,” Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2005

“Reconciliation in Hamlet.” Summer Shakespeare Institute, Wheaton College, June, 2005

“Imperial Pilgrimage in Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), New Orleans, 2004

“Shakespeare Calls on the Gods,” Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, VA, October, 2003

“Hamlet and Protestant Aural Theater,” Summer Shakespeare Institute, Wheaton College,

June 2003 (also led pedagogical workshop on Hamlet at this conference)

“Shakespeare and Santiago de Compostela,” SAA, Minneapolis, March 23-25, 2002

“Time and Virginity in Othello,” GEMCS, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 16-19, 2000

"The Ethic of Work in Shakespeare's Henriad," GEMCS, Miami, Fla., Oct., 1999

"Upending Tragedy in Shakespeare's Romances," Summer Shakespeare Institute, Wheaton College, June, 1999 (also led a pedagogical workshop on The Tempest at this conference)

"Eden in Shakespeare's The Tempest," Congress on The American Adam, Salamanca, Spain, March, 1999

Folger Shakespeare Library, “Shakespeare and the Jews”: With L. Apelbaum, Director, Jewish Historical Society of Washington, D.C., arranged talk by James Shapiro of Columbia U., July, 1998

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PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES: PARTICIPATION, PRESENTATIONS

Organized and chaired panel on "Shakespeare's Medievalism," Thirty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 1997

"Shakespeare's `Athenian' History Play," SAA, Washington, D.C., March 26-19, 1997

Conducted seminar on teaching Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, Wheaton College Summer Shakespeare Institute, June, 1996

"Macbeth, Paternity, and the Anglicization of James I," Panel on Shakespeare and Cultural Continuity, Thirty-First Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 1996. (Also chaired a session on Shakespeare and medieval drama at this congress.)

"Jessica's Ring," Ohio Shakespeare Conference, Wright State Univ. (Dayton), Feb. 28-March 1, 1996

"Shakespeare, Post-Structuralism, and the Bible," Literature and Spirituality Conference, St. Xavier University, Chicago, Oct., 1995

"Stichomythic Blank Verse in Shakespearean Comedy," SAA, Chicago, April, 1995

"How to Stop a Long-Winded Speaker" (parody panel), MLA, San Diego, Dec., 1994

"Anti-Theatricalism in Hamlet (Or, the Play Without the Play)," SAA, Albuquerque, April, 1994

"`That Reason Wonder May Diminish': As You Like It as Shakespeare's Blast in the Theater Wars," SCLA,

Austin, Texas, Oct., 1993

"Plato - Juvenal - Shakespeare - Jonson: Androgyny and Renaissance Classicism." Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Tulane University (New Orleans), Sept., 1993

"Conjugal Beasts and Social Monstrosities: Images of the Hermaphrodite in English Renaissance Culture," Second Conference on Arts and Public Policy, Orlando, Florida, March, 1993

"Ben Jonson and the Androgyne," Sixteenth-Century Studies Association, Atlanta, Oct., 1992

"Lyly, Shakespeare, and the Monstrous Androgyne," SAA, Kansas City, Kansas, April, 1992

"Falstaff's False Staff: `Jonsonian' Asexuality in The Merry Wives of Windsor," South Central Renaissance Conference, New Orleans, April, 1991

"Uncontainable Subversion in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy," First Conference on Arts and Public Policy, Orlando, Florida, March, 1991

"Elizabethan and Stuart Political Emblems." Glasgow Internat’l Emblem Conference, Scotland, Aug., 1990

"Tamburlaine and Marlovian Skepticism," Second Conference of the Marlowe Society of America, Oxford, England, Aug., 1988

"Richard Lovelace's Royalist Love Poetry," Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, Durham, England, July, 1987

"Tamburlaine’s Tragedy," Summer Renaissance Conf., Newberry Library, Chicago, June, 1985

COMMITTEE SERVICE

Western Michigan University

2005-08 College Promotions Committee (2007-08 chair humanities subdivision)

2007 Member of group of university facilitators for community “Reading Together” event

2007 Member, FRACASF grant committee

2005-07 Member, departmental Tenure and Promotion Committee (chair of TPC 2006-07)

2005-06 Member, ad hoc committee to compile graduate program self-assessment report

2004-05 Chair, departmental search committee, Early Modern Drama candidate

2004 Inviter and host of Colloquium Committee featured speaker David Bevington

2003-04 Member, interdepartmental Hiring Committee for new Dean of Arts of Sciences

2003-04 Member, English department Tenure and Promotion Committee

2003-04 Chair, departmental search committee, Renaissance literature candidate

1999-2001 Member, Faculty Senate

1999-2000 Editor, WMU self-assessment report for NCA academic accreditation

1998-2000 English Department Graduate Committee

1998-2000 Ad hoc committee on hiring drama fellow

1997-99 Ad hoc committee on student rights & responsibilities policy statement (and author of policy recommendation, adopted by WMU in 1998)

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COMMITTEE SERVICE (cont.):

1996-98 University Undergraduate Studies Committee

1996-98 English Department Policy Committee

1996-98 English Department Personnel Committee

1995-96 English Department Undergraduate Committee

University of New Orleans

1994-95 English Department Undergraduate Advisory Committee

1993-95 Editor, English departmental newsletter

1993-95 Undergraduate Grade Appeals Committee

1991-93 Secretary, English Department Graduate Advisory Committee

1992 Ad hoc committee to refine writing proficiency exam

1991-92 Ad hoc committee to explore comparative studies degree

1990-95 Women's Studies Com., Grad. faculty, Com. on Med. & Renaiss. Literature

Fordham University

1989-90 Helped develop university plagiarism policy

COMMUNITY SERVICE

1995-96 Adult reading tutor, Kalamazoo, Michigan

1991-95 Volunteer, Operation Mainstream (adult literacy tutoring), New Orleans

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Association of Literary Scholars and Critics

Shakespeare Association of America

RECOMMENDATIONS (available upon request)

John Cooke David Kastan Philip Sicker

Chair, English Dept. English Dept. English Dept.

University of New Orleans Columbia University Fordham University

New Orleans, LA 70148 NY, NY 10027 Bronx, NY, NY 10458

David Bevington Tom Pendleton, John Mahon Kent Cartwright

English Dept. Eds., The Shakespeare Newsletter English Dept.

Univ. of Chicago English Dept., Iona College Univ. of Maryland

1050 E. 59^th St. 715 North Avenue College Park, MD 20742

Chicago, IL 60637 New Rochelle, NY 10801

Maurice Hunt Beatrice Batson Lori Schroeder Haslem

Chair, English Dept. Shakespeare Special Collection English Department

Baylor University Buswell Library Knox College

PO Box 97404 Wheaton College Galesburg, IL 61401

Waco, TX 76798 Wheaton, IL 60187