GRACE CLEVELAND TIFFANY

English Department     

Western Michigan University

 Kalamazoo, MI 49008

 

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: 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                                                 Tiffany/2

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:

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 Shakespeare from a Christian Perspective, ed. E. 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 Mar’a Eugenia Diaz-Sanchez. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2001. 45-52.

"Elizabethan Constructions of Kingship."The Iconography of Power on the Renaissance Stage, ed. Gyšrgy Szšnyi & 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 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.

"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