B.S. in Biology, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, California
M. A. in English Language and Literature, University of Minnesota
Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of Minnesota

I teach Shakespeare and other early modern literatures, including an annual Shakespeare course that spends two weeks in London and Stratford-Upon-Avon in the UK. I have a particular interest in team-teaching, and have collaborated with faculty from Environmental Science, History, Communications, Media Arts, and English on a variety of courses for the Honors program and our majors. I have twice been chair of the English department,

English Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, and the dramatic literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, Literature and the Environment, Science Fiction.

Books

Science and Society. Longman Topics Reader. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.

Articles

"Through an Un-weeded Garden: Teaching the Unsustainable Hamlet." Moderna Språk 106: 1 (2012). 97-114.

“Witchcraft, Race, and the Rhetoric of Barbarism in Othello and 1 Henry IV.” The Upstart Crow: a Shakespeare Journal XXIV (2004): 72-80.

"'And Love Thee After': Necrophilia on the Jacobean Stage." Between Anthropology and Literature: Interdisciplinary Discourse. Ed. Rose DeAngelis. Routledge, 2002. 82-98.

"Naming and Social Disintegration in The Witch of Edmonton.” Essays in Theatre 16: 2 (May1998) 209-223.

"Witchcraft and the Theater in Richard III." The Upstart Crow: a Shakespeare Journal XVII (1997). 66-77.

"The Witch, the Transvestite, and the Actor: Destabilizing Gender and the Renaissance Stage." Studies in the Humanities 23: 2 (Dec. 1996). 163-184.