Ph.D. Harvard University, 1976

M.A. Harvard University, 1967

B.A. The City College of New York, 1966

Folger Library Research Fellowship, October-November, 2000.

Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in the College and in the Department of English, University of Chicago, July, 1996- .

Board of Directors, Mellon Foundation "Confrontations with the Other" Seminars, U. of Chicago, 1995-98; Director of the Seminar on Toleration and Repression in the Early Modern Period ($115,000 grant), U. of Chicago, 1995-6.

Director, Summer Seminar for Chicago Area High School Teachers (Shakespeare & Current Critical Theory); 1996, 1995, 1992, 1990.

Director, NEH Seminar for College Teachers, July-August, 1991: "Renaissance & Reformation in Tudor-Stuart England."

Grant from The Hyder Edward Rollins Fund of the English Department, Harvard University, to aid in book publication, 1988 (The Historical Renaissance ).

Fannie Hurst Visiting Professorship of English, Brandeis University, 1982-3.

Grant from The Hyder Edward Rollins Fund of the English Department, Harvard

University, to aid in book publication, 1982 (Love Known ).

The Bowdoin Prize in the Humanities, Harvard, 1972.

Nominated, Society of Fellows, Harvard, 1972.

NY State Regents Fellowship for College Teaching (Advanced), 1979-71.

NY State Regents Fellowship for College Teaching (Beginning), 1966.

NDEA Fellowship in English, 1966-69.

"Highest Honors" in English; Phi Beta Kappa; Pell Medal for General Scholarship; Leon Pin in English, CCNY, 1966.

Samuel G. Colby Award for Journalism, CCNY, 1966 (for editing Promethean,

the CCNY literary magazine, selected by theSaturday Review as "Best U.S. College Literary Magazine," 1966).

Elias Lieberman Contest, First Prize in Poetry, 1965, 1963.

Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts (University of California Press, 1995 [The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 34]); paperback, 1997.

[Reviews (selected) in Choice ("gem"), Early Modern Literary Studies (electronic journal), George Herbert Journal (by David Norbrook), SEL (Winter, '97 [A. Low]; Spring [Lars Engle], '97), Parergon (Australia), Common Knowledge; Sixteenth Century Journal; Renaissance Quarterly, Marlowe Society Reviews; Shakespeare Quarterly,17th-Century News [M. Schoenfeldt], JEGP [Ken Graham]

Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry (University of Chicago Press, 1983). Paperback edition: U. of Chicago Press, 1986.

[Reviews (selected) in Choice (selected as an "oustanding academic book," 1983), Library Journal, ADRIS Newsletter, Studies in English Literature, Criticism , Christianity and Literature, John Donne Journal, Church History, Renaissance Quarterly, George Herbert Journal, Renaissance and Reformation, Journal of Religion ]

"King Lear, Text and Contexts," (forthcoming from Bedford Books)

(Cambridge University Press, 1999)

[Derek Hirst, History, Washington U., St. Louis, coeditor]

[This volume as a whole means to break down the public-private distinction in the period; contributors include (along with the editors): Jackson Cope, Stanley Fish, Quentin Skinner, and John Pocock]

[Reviewed by Alastair Bellany in Albion-- "consistently interesting, high-quality collection'; rev. by Malcom Smuts, H-Albion@H-Net-- "consistently high quality']

Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688 (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

[Donna B. Hamilton, English, U. of Maryland, coeditor]

[Reviews (selected) in Etudes Anglais (Robert Ellrodt-- "évitant les coupures habituelles dans la vaste période"); 17th-Century News, Fall, '99 (Sharon Atchinstein-- "adventurous and meticulous");SEL, Winter, '98 (David Quint-- "high quality essays"; Ecclesiastical History (Kevin Sharpe-- "very good pieces"]

The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649 (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

[David L. Smith (History, Cambridge) and David Bevington (English, U. Chicago), coeditors]

[Reviews (selected) in TLS (26 January 1996 [by Anne Barton]), Times Higher Education Supplement (19April '96)-- (singles out my essay as "thrilling"), New Theatre Quarterly (August, '96); Economic History Review (May '96); Theatre Research International; Renaissance Quarterly, Shakespeare Jahrbuch]

The Historical Renaissance: New Essays in Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture (University of Chicago Press, 1988).

[Heather Dubrow (English, U. of Wisconsin, Madison), coeditor]

[Reviews (selected) in Times Higher Education Supplement; Renaissance Quarterly [both singled out "Faithful Servants" for special praise]; Shakespeare Quarterly, George Herbert Journal (by Christopher Hill), Sidney Newsletter, Review of English Studies, 17th-Century News, Albion, English Historical Review, Journal of Modern History (especially praises the Introduction).]

"Against the Rule of Reason: Praise of Passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert," forthcoming in "Reading the Early Modern Passions," ed. Mary Floyd-Wilson, Karen Rowe, & Gail Kern Paster (forthcoming from U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).

"How Formalism Became a Dirty Word, and Why We Can't Do Without It," in Renaissance Literature and Its Formal Engagements, ed. Mark Rasmussen (Palgrave Press, 2002), 207-215.

"Shakespeare and the Skeptics," Religion and Literature 32 (2000), 171-196 (special issue on "Heterodoxy in the English Renaissance," ed. Daniel Gates).

"Milton's Fetters, or, Why Eden is Better than Heaven" in John Milton: the Author in His Works, ed. Michael Lieb and Albert Labriola, Milton Studies 38 (2000), pp. 169-197.

"Affecting the Metaphysics," The Tradition of Metaphysical Poetry and Belief, ed. Richard Y. Duerden and William Shullenberger, Literature and Belief 19: 1 & 2 (1999), 43-62.

"'I am Power': Normal and Magical Politics in The Tempest ," in Writing and Political Engagement in Seventeenth-Century England (see Publications II "), pp. 10-30.

"Milton against Humility," in Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance, ed. Claire McEachern & Debora Shuger (Cambridge U. Press, 1997), pp. 258-286.

"Donne and the Politics of Devotion," in Religion, Literature and Politics in Post- Reformation England ("Publications II"), pp. 93-114.

"From Diagnosis to Operation: The 'Root and Branch' Petition and the Grand Remonstrance," in The Theatrical City ("Publications II"), pp. 224-244.

"Recent Studies in the English Renaissance," SEL 35 (Winter, '95), 159-192.

"Martin Luther and the Real Presence in Nature," Graven Images 1 (1994), 52-72. Studies in Culture, Law, and the Sacred: Essays from Graven Images (forthcoming from U. of Wisconsin Press, 2002).

"The English Lyric from Donne to Philips" in The Columbia History of British Poetry, ed. Carl Woodring and James Shapiro (New York, 1993), pp. 229-253.

"Radical Donne: Satire III," ELH 60 (Summer, 1993), 283-322.

"John Donne Awry and Squint: The 'Holy Sonnets,' 1608-10," Modern Philology 86 (May, 1989), 357-384.

[Featured in Margaret Edson's, Wit, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999]

"Sanctifying the Aristocracy: 'Devout Humanism' in François de Sales, John Donne, and George Herbert," Journal of Religion 69 (January, '89), 36-58.

"Faithful Servants: Shakespeare's Praise of Disobedience," in The Historical Renaissance (see "Publications II" ), pp. 104-133.

"Shakespeare and the Question of Theory" (on Parker and Hartman, eds., Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, and Eagleton, Shakespeare), Modern Philology (Summer, '88), 56-76.

"Inside Herbert's Narratives" (on Barbara Harman, Costly Monuments: Representations of the Self in George Herbert's Poetry), Criticism (Winter, 1984), 86-91.

"Identity and Power in Tudor England" (on Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self- Fashioning from More to Shakespeare ), Boundary 2 (Spring, 1982), 383-394.

"George Herbert and the World," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Fall, 1981), 211-236.

"Ironic Humanism in The Temple," in "Too Rich to Clothe the Sunne": Essays on George Herbert, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1980), pp. 33-52.

"'To all Angels and Saints': Herbert's Puritan Poem," Modern Philology (November, 1979), 132-145.

"Herbert and Tears," ELH (Summer, 1979), 221-247.

"Changing the Object: Herbert and Excess," George Herbert Journal (Fall,1978), 24-37.

"'Humanizing' Herbert" (on Helen Vendler, The Poetry of George Herbert), Modern Philology (August, 1976), 78-88.

"The Poetics of Surrender: An Exposition and Critique of New Critical Poetics," Critical Inquiry (Autumn, 1975), 171-189. Excerpted in Dedria Bryfonski, ed., Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, re Hart Crane (Gale Research Co.).

"Crashaw's Other Voice," Studies in English Literature (Winter, 1969), 135-151. Reprinted in Mario di Cesare, ed., George Herbert and theSeventeenth-Century Religious Poets, A Norton Critical Edition (1978).

"Alternative Descriptions of the Ultimate: The Mirror and the Sea in Rumi's Poetry," Literature East and West (June, 1967), 126-132.

Review of Cristina Malcolmson. Heart-Work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic, forthcoming in Modern Philology.

Note on the politics and value of Tate's Lear, Shakespeare Newsletter (Fall, 2001),

78.

Review of William Kerrigan, Shakespeare's Promises, Shakespeare Quarterly (Fall, 2001), 422-426.

"George Herbert," in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Scribner's, 2000.

Review of Huston Diehl, Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England, Journal of Religion (July, '99), 475-77.

Review of Robert Weimann, Authority and Representation in Early Modern Discourse, Shakespeare Quarterly (Summer, 1998), 238-240.

Double Review of Alvin Kernan, Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613 and Edward Pechter, What Was Shakespeare? Renaissance Plays and Changing Critical Practice, Modern Philology (May, 1998), 524-530.

"The Aims of the Humanities Core," in Engaging the Humanities at the University of Chicago, ed. Philippe Desan (University of Chicago Humanities Collegiate Division, 1995), pp. 159-166.

"Great Books without Canons," Interdisciplinary Humanities 10 (Fall, 1993), 25-27.

The Aims of Education Address: "Good Questions Deserve Good Answers," The University of Chicago Record (November, 1991), 2-3; reprinted in The Aims of Education: The College of the University of Chicago, intro John W. Boyer (The University of Chicago, 1997), pp. 259-272.

Review of Stanley Cavell, Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare, Shakespeare Quarterly (Spring, '90), 124-127.

"Songs and Sonnets Go to Church: Teaching George Herbert," in Approaches to Teaching World Literature: The Metaphysical Poets, ed. Sidney Gottlieb (MLA, 1990), pp. 127-131.

Review of Leonard Tennenhouse, Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres, Criticism (Spring, 1989),

Review of Jonathan Goldberg, Voice Terminal Echo: Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts, Renaissance Quarterly (Summer, '89), 347-351.

"Some Remarks on 'New Historicism,'" in The Muses Commonweale: Poetry and Politics in the Earlier Seventeenth-Century, ed. Claude Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (U. of Missouri Press, 1989), pp. 212-215.

"The Historical Renaissance," Introduction (with Heather Dubrow) to The Historical Renaissance (see "Publications II" ), pp. 1-12.

"Divorcing Poetry from Politics-- Two Versions" (Response to Clark Hulse and Andrew Weiner on Spenser), Studies in Philology (Summer, '88), 407-411.

"Getting Off the Map" (Response to 'George Herbert's Theology: Nearer Rome or Geneva?'" [MLA, 1986]), George Herbert Journal (Fall, '87), 41-47.

Booknote on Lawrence Anselment, Betwixt Jest and Earnest: Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, Swift and the Decorum of Religious Ridicule, Church History (December, 1982), 461.

"History, Criticism, and Herbert: A Polemical Note," Papers on Language and Literature (Fall, 1981), 347-352.

Review of Barbara Hardy, The Advantage of Lyric: Essays on Feeling in

Poetry, Modern Language Quarterly (December, 1978), 405-407.

Poetry in: The Chicago Review, The Grey City Journal, The Boston Review of the Arts, The World: A New York Literary Magazine (St. Mark's), Promethean (CCNY).

"Intellectual History versus Biography: The Case of Donne's Third Satire" (invited paper in panel on "The New Intellectual Historicism," Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Phoenix, 2002.

"Shakespeare and the Skeptics," short version: SAA (Shakespeare Association of America), Minneapolis, '02 (invited lecture; winner of open paper contest);

long version: Princeton U. (History and English Depts), Dec., 2000; U. of Michigan (English, Renaissance Studies), Ann Arbor, October, 2000.

"Against the Rule of Reason: Praise of Passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert," The Rifkind Center for the Humanities, CCNY, March. '02; History of Political and Social Thought Workshop, U. of Chicago, February, '02; Walter Clyde Curry Lecture, Vanderbilt University, November, '01.

"Donne and Freedom of Conscience," The Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, February, '02.

"Shakespeare against Morality," at "Reading Renaissance Ethics," U. of Maryland, College Park, November, '01.

"Reading and Representing Revolution from Exile to Exclusion," at "England's Age of Revolutions?" U. of Chicago, November, 01.

"Shakespeare and Politics: The Case of Lear," Humanities Division Open House,

October, '01.

"The Reason of Milton's Presbyterianism," RSA, Chicago, March, '01 (panel on "Discipline").

"Reviving 'the Renaissance,'" RSA, Chicago, March, '01 (panel on "Renaissance" vs. "Early Modern"); Renaissance Wokshop, U. of Chicago, March, 01.

"How Formalism Became a Dirty Word, and Why We Can't Do Without It," Formalism Workshop, October, '01, U. of Chicago; Symposium on 'The New Formalism,' U. of Michigan, January, '01; as "Formalism v. Historicism: A False Dichotomy," Graduate Student-Faculty Colloquium, Department of English, May, 2000; Masters Program in the Humanities Colloquium (Gerald Graff, respondent), U. of Chicago, Jan. '99; Renaissance Workshop, U. of Chicago, Jan. '98; MLA (invited paper), Toronto, Dec. 1997.

"Shakespeare and the Skeptics," Princeton U. (History and English Depts), Dec., 2000; U. of Michigan (English, Renaissance Studies), Ann Arbor, October, 2000.

"Lyric and Bondage," revised version presented at invitational Symposium on "The Self and Self-Knowledge," Philosophy Department, Columbia U., November, '99; Comparative International Poetics Workshop, U. of Chicago, February, '91; Humanities Core Lecture, U. of Chicago, Feb., '91, Feb., '90.

Shorter version: MLA, 2000 (Washington, DC).

"The Eucharist, Fetishes, and other Red Herrings," invited response to seminar on "Printers, Players, and Preachers," SAA, Montreal, April, 2000.

"Secularity and Grace in King Lear," RSA, Florence, March, 2000.

"A Pattern For Our Love: Anti-Formalist Close Reading," Special Session: "Donne's 'The Canonization' Now," MLA, Chicago, 1999.

"Shakespeare's Praise of Folly: Antony and Cleopatra," Basic Program Theater Symposium, Graham School of General Studies, U. of Chicago, Dec., 1999.

"Do You Have to Be the Thing to Understand It: The Case of Religious Poetry," Humanities Division Open House, October, 1999

"Affecting the Metaphysics," University of Chicago Renaissance Workshop, October, '99; keynote lecture at conference on Metaphysical Poetry and Belief, Brigham Young U, October, 1997.

"Three Strange Ideas: 'The Great Books,' 'The Great Conversation,' and 'The Western Tradition'," Plenary, Basic Program Graduation, June, 1999

"The History & Philosophy of 'The Core' at The U. of Chicago," Temple University (Provostial retreat for Deans and other academic administrators), May, 1999.

"Milton's Fetters," Rutgers University, March 1999; revision of: "Milton and the Ubiquity of the Ethical, Or, Why Milton's Eden is Better than his Heaven," invited paper, Newberry Library Milton Seminar, February, '98.

"Teaching Poetry to Undergraduates," Rutgers University, March, 1999 (Bruce Robbins, Respondent);

"The Struggle Against Metaphor: Successes And Failures in Stanley Cavell's Readings Of Shakespeare," MLA, SF, 1998.

"The Idea that Shakespeare 'Had No Politics' -- and Where It Came From," Humanities Division Open House, October, 1998.

"Why Frost's 'Road Not Taken' is not a Hallmark Card," University of Chicago College Retreat, May, 1998.

"The Importance of Not being Shakespeare" (on whether The Second Maiden's Tragedy is the lost Cardenio by Shakespeare and Fletcher), Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, April, 1998.

"The Idea of a Secular City, or, How Leonardo Bruni Made Florence into Athens," Occidental College, November, 1997.

Invited Respondent, "Shakespeare and the Reformation," SAA, DC, March, 1997.

"'I am Power': Normal and Magical Politics in The Tempest ," Midwest Conference on British Studies, Chicago, October, '99; University of Nevada at Reno, January, '99; For "Reading Cultures" (U. of Chicago Core Course) Plenary Lecture, January, 99; University of Texas at Austin, April, '98; Occidental College, November, 1997; Yale University, March, '97; Empire and Renaissance Workshops, U. of Chicago, February, '97; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Nov., 1996; U. of Chicago Renaissance Seminar, May, '96; Strode Lecture, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, November, 1994; Harvard University (English Department), October, 1993; SAA, Atlanta, April, 1993.

"The Cold Water of History, or, Turning Wine to Wine: Why Herbert's 'Love' (III) Can't be Eucharistic," MLA (in session I organized on "Food: Sacred and Profane"), Washington, DC, 1996.

"Shakespeare and Skepticism: From Errors to Lear," 16th Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, October, '96; MLA, Chicago, December, 1995.

"The Renaissance and Toleration" [I], Ideologies of Toleration and Repression in Early Modern Europe Conference, U. of Chicago, March, '96; "The Renaissance and Toleration" [II], Institutions of Toleration in Early Modern Europe Conference, U. of Chicago, May, '96.

"Is Art 'Above the Fray'?," Humanities Division Visiting Committee, May, '96.

"Crowning the Enemy: Empson and Milton," Milton Society of America, Chicago, December, 1995.

"Milton against Humility," short version: 16th Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, October, '95;

Full version: East Coast Milton Seminar, Duke, April '94.

"Donne and the Politics of Devotion," Workshop on Early Modern Europe (U. of Chicago, October, '94).

Shorter Version: "Doctors of the Church: the Politics of Medicine in Donne's Devotions ," MLA, Toronto, 1993.

"Shakespeare and Radical Politics," Shimer College, May, 1994.

"After the Protestant Revolution, Or, From Love to Power: Herbert Studies in the '80's and '90's," UCLA, November, 1993.

"Describing and Curing a National Disaster: The "Roots and Branches' Petition and the 'Grand Remonstrance,'" Tudor-Stuart Workshop (History Dept.), Harvard University, October, 1993; Renaissance Workshop, U. of Chicago, May, '94.

"The Aristocracy and Religion in England and France," 2-Day Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Conference on "Europe and Whitehall," October, 1993.

"Great Books without Canons," invited address, National Association for Humanities Education, Chicago, April, 1993.

"New Historicism, Old, Historicism, and the Reformation," UCLA, March, 1993.

"Whig Lear : Tate and Shakespeare," at the Eighteenth-Century Workshop, U. of Chicago, November, 1992.

Shorter Version: "The Brilliance of Tate's Lear ," SAA, Kansas City, April, 1992.

"'Old' versus 'New,' Two Cases: Tuve v. Empson and Greenblatt v. Lewis," U. of North Carolina at Greensboro, March, 1992.

"Good Questions Deserve Good Answers," The "Aims of Education" Address, University of Chicago, September, 1991

"Standing up for Bastards (and others): Shakespearean Alternatives to Primogeniture," SAA, Vancouver, March, 1991 (invited response to seminar on "Shakespeare"s Bastards")

"Going in the Wrong Direction: Donne Criticism and 'Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward,'" invited address, Donne Society Annual Meeting, Gulfport, Mississippi, February, 1991.

"What's Old?" invited paper at plenary session, "History, Old and New," ADE Conference, Indiana University, June, 1990; Centennial Symposium on Liberal Education, U. of Chicago, January, 1992.

"Taking Utopia Seriously: a (B. F.) Skinnerian Reading," at The "Critical Theories of Quentin Skinner" Symposium, Institute for Research in the Humanities, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, April, 1990.

Another Version: "Thomas More Invents Social Science: The True Radicalism of Utopia ," Midwest Faculty Seminar, U. of Chicago, January, 1989.

"Radical Donne," English Department Colloquium, U. of Chicago, January, 1990; Shorter Version: "Resistant Donne, Or, the Right Not to Choose-- A Reading of 'Satire III,'" Central Renaissance Conference," Loyola University, April, 1990; MLA, New Orleans, December, 1988.

"Tuve v. Empson," MLA, Washington, D.C., December, 1989.

"Donne to Herbert to Donne," MLA, Washington, D.C., December, 1989.

"What Metaphors Don't Mean," Workshop on Cognition and Language, U. of Chicago, Nov., 1988.

"Resisting Harmony and Allegory-- How to Read The Merchant of Venice," Midwest MLA (MMLA), Nov.,1988.

"Reconsidering Self-Consumption, Or, in Praise of Content," plenary address, Conference on Renaissance Prose, Purdue, October, 1988; Workshop on Cognition and Language, U. of Chicago, January, 1990.

"The Ideology of 'The Church-porch,'" MLA, San Francisco, Dec., 1987.

"Theology Naturalized, Or, How to Read Othello, " MMLA, Nov.,1987.

"Luther Against the Spirit," 16th-Century Studies Conference, Tempe, Arizona, October, 1987.

"Divorcing Poetry from Politics-- Two Versions" (Hulse & Weiner on Spenser), 16th- Century Studies Conference, Tempe, Arizona, October,1987.

"Faithful Servants: Shakespeare's Praise of Disobedience," U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March, 1989; Colorado College History Colloqium, March, 1989; U. of Pennsylvania, March, 1988; U. of Washington, St. Louis, April, 1987; U. of Texas at Austin, January, 1987; 5-College Renaissance Seminar, Smith College, November, 1986; The Renaissance Center, Newberry Library, January, 1986.

Shorter Version: "Dogs and Office: Proper Disobedience in Lear ," MMLA, Chicago, November,1986; Humanities Division Open House, U. of Chicago, October, 1985; Shakespeare Association Meetings, Nashville, Spring, 1985.

Invited Response to "George Herbert's Theology: Nearer Rome or Geneva," MLA, New York, December, 1986.

Organizer of and speaker on panel, "The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies," Biennial Renaissance Conference, U. of Michigan at Dearborn, October,1986.

"Seventeenth-Century Studies Now and in the work of Arnold Stein," Commentary on "Reading the Seventeenth Century": A Symposium for Arnold Stein, U. of Illinois, Urbana, April,1986.

"Sanctifying the Aristocracy: The Paradoxes of 'Devout Humanism,'" Annual Religion and Literature Colloquium, U. of Chicago, January, 1988; RSA, U. of Pennsylvania, March, 1986.

"Sacred and Secular Readings of Poetry," Annual Religion and Literature Colloquium, U. of Chicago, January, 1985.

"Humanism and/vs. the Reformation in 17th-century Poetry," Conference on Humanism in Renaissance Britain, U. of Wisconson, Parkside, Fall, 1984.

"John Donne Awry and Squint," Calvin College, April, 1987; U. of Rochester, November, 1985; English Colloquium, U. of Chicago, November, 1985.

Shorter version ("Straining to Relax"): Biennial Renaissance Conference, U. of Michigan at Dearborn, October, 1984; Boston College (English Dept.), April, 1984; MLA, New York, December, 1983.

"George Herbert and the Priority of Feeling," U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October, 1985; Haverford College, Fall, 1983; 5-College Renaissance Seminar, Smith College, April, 1983; Brandeis U., November, 1982; Chicago Area Faculty Renaissance Seminar, March, 1981.

"Herbert's Attack on Reason, or How to Do Things with Stanley Fish," Medieval- Renaissance Grad. Colloquium, U. of Chicago, May, 1982.

"Herbert and the Radicals," MLA, New York, December, 1981.

"Herbert's Rejection of the Covenant," Renaissance Studies Group, U. of Wisconson, Madison, Spring, 1981.

"George Herbert and the World," Medieval-Renaissance Grad. Student Colloqium, U. of Chicago, Spring, 1980.

"Ironic Humanism in The Temple," Renaissance Studies Group, Purdue U., November, 1980; Biennial Renaissance Conference, U. of Michigan, Dearborn, October, 1978.

"Changing the Object: Herbert and Excess," MLA, NY, December, 1978.

"'To all Angels and Saints': Herbert's Puritan Poem," Renaissance Studies Group, U. of Wisconson, Madison, November, 1978.

"Martin Luther and the Real Presence in Nature," Chicago Area Faculty Renaissance Seminar, May, 1976.

More informal papers & presentations:

On Linda Gregerson's poetry, May, '02; On "Politics in the Classroom," in roundtable sponsored by the Graduate Students in English, U. of C., May, 2002; On Shylock and "reasons for" Hatred, at the "Hatred: Confronting the Other" Conference, University of Chicago, February, 2000; On Frank BIdart's poetry, October, '99; On ch. 4 of Resistant Structures ("New Historicism"), University of Nevada at Reno, January, '99; On Chs 1 and 4 of Resistant Structures, to interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquium at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Nov., '96; On Teaching Shakespeare to HIgh School Teachers, to Visiting Committee on University-School relations, April, 1992; On the "Core" at the U. of Chicago, AAC Conference, Washington, D.C., January, 1992; On Scholarship and Core Teaching, Humanities Division Visiting Committee, U. of Chicago, March, 1991; On "Liberalism and Multiculturalism," Mellon Literacy Project, U. of Chicago, February, 1991; On "Shakespeare's Prejudices: Shrews and Jews," Humanities Division Open House, U. of Chicago, 1990, "Perspectives" (TV show), Spring, 1977; "Exsufflicate Surmises: An Approach to Othello, " "Human Being & Citizen" Staff Meeting, Spring, 90; "Luther on Grace-- As Seen Through Herbert," Lutheran Study group, Augustana Church, Chicago, December, '89; "How to Read a Poem" (Frost's "The Road Not Taken"), Parents Day, U. of Chicago, November, '89; "A Secular Jew Reads George Herbert," Hillel, U. of Chicago, Spring, '89; "The Structure of Book X of Augustine's Confessions, " The Renaissance Workshop, U. of Chicago, April, '89; "The Discussion Class," U. of Chicago Teaching Center, Summer, 1988; Presentations to Humanities Common Core Staff (on Walden, Machiavelli's Prince, Hamlet, The Tempest, "Metaphysical Poetry," The Gospel according to St. Matthew, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem), 1973-91; Introductions to various contemporary poets (Robert Hass, Anthony Hecht, C. K. Williams, Michael Palmer, Frank Bidart, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Alane Rollings, Alan Shapiro, Alan Williamson, and others), 1985-9; On the interpenetration of sacred and secular in 17th-century lyric poetry, Master's Colloquium, U. of Texas at Austin,1987; On medieval literature and contemporary critical methods, Medieval-Renaissance graduate colloquium, U. of Chicago, Winter, 1981; On teaching philosophical texts in freshman Humanities, Humanities Open House, U. of Chicago, 1981, 1980; On Hamlet, to Alumni Association Volunteers, Summer, 1979.

Poetry Readings: February, 1982 (for Chicago Literary Review ); St. Mark's Church, NY, Spring, 1968.

Frank L. Sulzberger Professor, the College, the U. of Chicago, July, 1996- .

Professor, Department of English, Committee on the Visual Arts, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, Committee on Jewish Studies (resigned, June, 1997), U. of Chicago, Fall, 1986- .

Seminar Leader, Frye Foundation Seminar for High School Teachers (on Shakespeare), Summer, 1996, 1995, 1992, 1990.

Associate Professor, English & the College, U. of Chicago, Fall, 1983-86.

Fannie Hurst Visiting Associate Professor, Department of English, Brandeis University,1982-83.

Assistant Professor, English &the College, U. of Chicago, Fall, 1975-82.

Seminar Leader, Midwest Faculty Seminars, University of Chicago Extension, Spring, 1976 - . (4-day faculty seminars for teachers at Midwest colleges on: "Representation"; "Creation and Interpretation"; "Narrative"; "Metaphor"; the Baroque; More's Utopia ; Plato's Protagoras ; Machiavelli's The Prince.)

Instructor, English & the College, U. of Chicago, Fall,1973-1975.

Teaching Fellow and Tutor in English, History and Literature, General Education, Harvard University, 1969-1973.

Leader of creative writing workshops, Harvard, Winthrop House, 1971-1973; CCNY, 1965-1966.

Acting Lecturer, English Department, CCNY, Summer, 1967.

Completed: On tensions about homes and inns in late Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre and culture (1st reader); On print and manuscript conceptions of authorship in the Tudor and Stuart lyric (1st reader); On the representation of sickness in English seventeenth-century texts (1st reader); On the history and significance of Shakespeare productions in Latvia (with Bevington, etc.); On conceptions of habit in English Renaissance literature (1st reader); On a Pauline conception of rhetoric in writers from Gascoigne to Milton (with Janel Mueller & Joshua Scodel); On "private" and "public" in 17th-century English mainstream devotion (with Scodel); On Donne's Devotions as a social text (1st reader); On the language of dissent in early American literature (with Robert Ferguson); On Milton and the modern concept of the self (1st reader; in Comm. on Social Thought); On English Renaissance literature and the literature of colonialism (1st reader); On cuckoldry and English drama from the Renaissance to the Restoration (with David Bevington); On the language of feeling in Cotton Mather (with M. Marty and G. Brauer, Divinity School); *On the texts of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus (with Bevington); On Cowley's politics and poetry (with John M. Wallace); On George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, and T.S. Eliot on the limits of language (1st reader); On the psychodynamics of love poetry, Renaissance and modern (with A. Grossman; at Brandeis U.); On Elizabethan sonnet sequences and the problem of closure (with Michael Murrin); *On Romanticism and contemporary critical theory (with W. J. T. Mitchell and James Chandler); *On Herbert and the institutional in church and state (1st reader); *On Elizabethan and Jacobean Domestic tragedy (with D. Bevington and Janel Mueller); *On the idea of the avant-garde and 20th-century American poetry (with Robert Von Hallberg); *On Bunyan's hermeneutics (with Wallace); On devotional poetry before Donne & Herbert (1st reader); *On the relation between high modern and contemporary poetry (with Von Hallberg and James E. Miller); On unconscious motivation in Lear, Pericles and The Tempest (with Bevington); On shrews in Shakespeare (with William Ringler); On William Dunbar (with Ringler); On villain-heroes in Elizabethan & Jacobean drama (with Bevington).

* = has become a published book.

In process: On memory in Hamlet (1st reader; Committee on Social Thought); On the voices of sexually deviant or marginal women in English Renaissance drama (with Bevington and Mueller); On Stanley Cavell, Henry James, and intersubjectivity (Philosophy Dept.); On the language of regicide and revolution from the English to the American revolution (with Mueller and Pincus [History]); On Milton and wrath (1st reader).

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE, etc. (at U. of Chicago unless specified):

Committee on the Visual Arts, 1997 - .

College-Wide Curriculum Committee, 1998 - .

Council of the Faculty Senate (Faculty Governing body of the University), 1999 - .

College Council (Faculty Governing body of the College), 2002 - ; (and many times before).

Chair (with Carla Mazzio), Graduate Student-Faculty Workshop on Formalism, '01 - .

Co-Chair (with David Bevington), Workshop for Graduate Students in the Renaissance, Fall, 1983 - .

Co-Chair (with Suzanne Gossett. Loyola University), Interdisciplinary Renaissance Seminar for Chicago Area Faculty, 2001 - .

Co-chairwith David Bevington, U. of Chicago, 1986 - 2001.

Chair, "Reading Cultures" (Humanities Core Course), 2001-2.

Chair, Morton Dauwen Zabel Lecture Committee (for bringing poets to campus), 2001,1983-'89.

Chair, Poet search committee, 2001.

Co-Organizer and commentator, College retreat on "Thinking about Majors," March, 2000

Co-Organizer, International Conference (Mellon Sawyer Seminar Program), on "Hatred: Confronting the Other," February, 2000.

Director, Departmental Teaching Colloquium for Graduate Students, 1997-2000.

James Russell Lowell Prize Committee, MLA, 1998-9, 1999-2000.

Chair, Executive Committee, Division on 17th-Century English Literature, MLA, 1995-6. Member: 1991; 1993 - (Organizer of session, "The Uses of Conscience," MLA, Chicago, '95; of 3 Divisional sessions on "The Sacred and the Profane in the 17th-c: Food; Sex; War," Washington, DC, '96).

Chair of Organizing Board, 3 international conferences sponsored by the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Program at the U. of Chicago, 1995-6, on "Toleration, Repression, and Authority in Early Modern Europe": "Forbidden Practices" (Fall); "Ideologies of Toleration and Repression" (Winter); " and Practices of Toleration" (Spring)

Chair, "Form, Problem, Event" (Humanities Core Course), 1994-6.

Co-Chair (with Steven Pincus, History), Workshop on the Early Modern Period, Fall, 1994 -6.

Faculty Advisor/Coordinator, Mellon Multiculturalism Program (for Chicago Public High School Teachers), 1992 -'95.

Master, Humanities Collegiate Division [ = Associate Dean of Humanities Division & Associate Dean of the College], January, 1988 - June, 1992.

Co-organizer (with John W. Boyer), national conference: "The Fate of Liberal Education" (February, 1992).

Co-organizer (with Philippe Desan and Elissa Weaver), international conference: "Do We Need 'The Renaissance'?" (April, 1992).

Associate Chair (Hiring and Placement), English Dept., '87- '89.

Chair (Organizer), Shakespeare Section, MMLA, '88; Secretary, '87.

Chair, Dean's Committee to Investigate the Use of Graduate Students in the College, 1979-1982.

Co-Founder, Humanities Common Core Sequence "Form, Problem, Event," 1979 (with J. Chandler, J. Schleusener, and M. Schwehn).

Chair, "Introduction to the Humanities" (Common Core), 1976-1978.

[+ normal run of departmental committees: faculty searches, admissions, etc.]

University Presses of: U. of Chicago; U. of California; Harvard; Cambridge (England and New York); Johns Hopkins; U. of Wisconsin; Stanford; Princeton, Columbia, Wayne State; Critical Inquiry, Modern Philology, Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of Religion, Papers in Language and Literature, JEGP, PMLA, Journal of the History of Ideas, Criticism, Mosaic, George Herbert Journal, Literature and History, Clio.

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

The George Herbert Journal; Graven Images: A Journal of Culture, Law, and the Sacred

First Folio Shakespeare Festival