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GRACE CLEVELAND TIFFANY English Department Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008
AREAS OF INTEREST AND EXPERTISE Shakespeare, Renaissance drama
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: 252, 452, 610, 652,
653) -
Drama (graduate and undergraduate: 442, 642) -
Renaissance Literature (graduate: 532) -
M.A. Capstone Essay seminar (690) -
Literary Interpretation (110) -
Graduate independent study in Renaissance literature -
Ph.D. dissertation committee service -
honors thesis committee service 1990-95
Asst. Prof. Univ. of New Orleans
(UNO): Ten., promoted to assoc. 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 Civ.: 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
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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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:
Love's
Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey in English Renaissance Literature. AUP,
2006. Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters: Shakespeare,
Jonson, and Comic Androgyny. AUP, 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 (historical novel) 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. E. Beatrice Batson, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 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 "Eden and the New World in Shakespeare's The Tempest." Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam, ed. Viorica Patea and Mara Eugenia Diaz-Sanchez. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2001. 45-52. "Elizabethan Constructions of Kingship."The
Iconography of Power on the Renaissance Stage, ed. Gyrgy Sznyi & 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." Papers on Language and Literature "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. "Shakespeare
and Santiago de Compostela."Renascence
54:2 (Winter 2002): 87-107. "Calvinist Grace in Shakespeare's Romances:
Upending Tragedy." Christianity and Literature 49:4 (Summer 2000): 1-25. "Shakespeare's Dionysian Prince: Drama,
Politics, and the `Athenian' History Play." Renaissance Quarterly
52:2 (Summer 1999): 366-81. "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.
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ARTICLES
(cont.) "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: Julie
Crawford, Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation
England.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
(forthcoming). Kenneth
Gross, ShakespeareŐs 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 Shakespeare's The Tempest (critical edition, ed. and intro.), presently at Johns Hopkins UP
PROFESSIONAL
RECOGNITION/AWARDS
Featured speaker, "The Shylock Project," Jewish Historical Society of Washington, D.C., May, 2007 Featured writer, Western Illinois Creative Writing Festival, 2007 Manuscript reader, Palgrave -Macmillan, 2006 Ariel listed as a Best Book for Young Adults 2006 by American Library Association Invited speaker, George Mason University, 2006 Invited
speaker, Andrews University, 2005 Invited speaker, Central Michigan University, 2005 Invited panelist for historical novel, Ann Arbor Literary Festival, 2005 Asked
to join team of editors for Houghton-Mifflin's New Riverside Shakespeare
series, 2002 FRACASF
grants, Western Michigan University, 1996, 2002, 2006 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 Appointed to committee to evaluate the journal
Christianity and Literature,
1997 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 UniversityŐs 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
PROFESSIONAL
CONFERENCES: Participation, Presentations "Shakespeare's Anti-Gallicism," GEMCS (Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies), 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 (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." Group for Early Modern Cultural
Studies (GEMCS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 16-19, 2000 "The Ethic of Work in Shakespeare's Henriad." GEMCS Conference, 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 and the New World in Shakespeare's
The Tempest,"
Conference on The American Adam, Salamanca, Spain, March, 1999 Folger Shakespeare Library, "Shakespeare
and the Jews": With Laura Apelbaum, Director, Washington, D.C.,
Jewish Historical Society, arranged talk by James Shapiro of Columbia
University, July, 1998 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 ShakespeareŐs
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 Conf., 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
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CONFERENCES (cont.)
"`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 Univ. (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 International 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 2007 Member of group of university facilitators for community read 2007- Member, FRACASF grant committee 2005 - Member, College Promotion Committee 2005-07 Member, departmental Tenure and Promotion Committee (co-chair 2006-07) 2005-06 Member, ad hoc committee to compile
graduate program self-assessment report 2004-05 Member,
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, 2005 Member, English department
tenure and promotions 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
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) 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
2007 Panelist, community read (Kalamazoo College) 1995-96 Adult reading tutor, Kalamazoo, Michigan 1991-95 Volunteer, Operation Mainstream (adult literacy
tutoring), New Orleans
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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. 59th 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
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