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Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170 email: williamgahan@umail.ucsb.edu |
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Areas of Interest
- Early Modern Literature and Culture
- Shakespeare and Early Modern English and Spanish Drama
- Constructions of History; Theories of History
- Translation
Current Projects and Publications
- Dissertation: "The History Play in Shakespeare and Lope"
- “Ballad Measure.” Pepys’ Ballads: A Scholarly Edition. Ed. Patricia Fumerton. Forthcoming 2008.
- “History, True and Fabulous.” Pepys’ Ballads: A Scholarly Edition. Ed. Patricia Fumerton. Forthcoming 2008.
- Garcilaso’s Tunisian Poems: A Bilingual Edition. Translations with Richard Helgerson in A Sonnet From Carthage, U. Penn. Press 2007.
- ,“How English Purveyors of Early Modern Historical Drama Solicited Publics for their Plays.” Chicago GEMCS Conference, February 2007.
- Several encyclopedia articles for Great Events From History, 19th Century, and Great Lives from History, 19th Century. Salem Press 2006.
- “Petrarch, Wyatt, and a Female Voice: Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam.” Renaissance Conference of Southern California in collaboration with the SCRC, Exploring the Renaissance 2005: An International Conference, March 2005.
- “Re-forming Revolution: Goya’s Executions of the Third of May, 1808.” Tinta: Selected Essays from the 5th Annual Spanish and Lusophone Graduate Conference, UCSB. Tinta (Spring 2004). 32-53. (Revised version presented at “Structuring Thought Through the Ages,” a conference hosted by the University of Washington).
- “Capturing Molina de Aragón.” The Rectangle: The Literary Journal of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society.(March 2003). 75-79.
- "Hereditary Gentillesse in The Clerk's Tale." The Medieval Association of the Pacific's Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2002. Abstract printed in Chronica: The Journal of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, 61 (Spring 2002). 53-54.
- "Using Visual Art to Teach College Writing." CCCC Denver Convention, March 2001.
- "Zero in Beckett's Endgame." SynThink Conference, LMU, November 2000.
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
UCSB Writing Program Associate Full Support Fall/Winter/Spring 07-08McGill University “Making Publics” Project Endowment Grant 2007
UCSB Academic Senate Graduate Student Travel Grant 2007
Ballad Archive Fellow Full Support Winter and Spring 2007
Early Modern Center Fellow Full Support Fall 2007
UCSB Graduate Humanities Research Fellowship 2005-2006 (Full Year Central Fellowship)
UCSB Grad. Stud. Assoc. Teaching Associate Award for Excellence in Teaching 2004-2005
UCSB Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant 2004-2005
UCSB English Departmental Scholarship, 2002-03 (Full Year Departmental Fellowship)
UC Santa Barbara Fee Remission Fellowship, 2003-2007
Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society 2002 Grad. Scholarly Paper Award
Best Masters Examination Essay Award for 2002 at LMU
1st Place 2001 Daniel T. Mitchell Memorial Essay Contest: Grad. Div., LMU
2nd Place 2000 Daniel T. Mitchell Memorial Essay Contest: Grad Div., LMU
Teaching Experience
- Fall ’07 – Spring ’08, Writing 2 (Instructor)
- Summer ’06: English 10, Intro to Literature (Instructor)
- Fall ’04 – Spring ‘05: Writing 2 (Instructor)
- Summer ’03: English 15, Introduction to Shakespeare (Instructor)
- Spring ’03: English 10, Introduction to Literature (Instructor)
- Winter ’03: English 103B, Nineteenth Century British Literature (T.A.)
- Fall ’03: English 116A, Hebrew Scriptures (T.A.)
