Education:

1957-61 Princeton University, A.B., English Literature, summa cum laude
1961-63 Merton College, Oxford University, B. Litt., English Literature
1963-67 Harvard University, Ph.D., English Literature

Academic Appointments:

1965-67 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
1967-68 Instructor of English, Yale University
1968-73 Assistant Professor of English, Yale University
1973-74 Associate Professor of English, Yale University
1974-77 Professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1977- Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
1981 Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1989-94 (concurrent with apointment at UCSB) Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

Aministrative Appointments:

1971-74 Director, Intensive Major in English (Honors Major), Yale University
1976-77 Director of Graduate Studies in English, University of Illinois
1987-89 Chair, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
1989-94 Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute
1997-2001 Chair, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
2002-05 Associate Vice-Chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Professional Societies:

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Modern Language Association
Renaissance Society of America
Shakespeare Association of America

Honors and Recognitions:

Phi Beta Kappa
Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1961)
Henry Fellow (1961-62)
Dexter Fellow (1966)
Morse Fellow (1970-71)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (1979-80)
Eaton Award for Critical Writing on Science Fiction (for Alien Encounters) (1983)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (1990-91)
Center for Cultural and Literary Studies Fellow, Harvard University (1991)
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award (for Authors and Owners) (1994)
Whitney Humanities Center Fellow, Yale University (1996)
Outstanding Faculty Member Teaching Award, UCSB (2000)
Melville B. Nimmer Lecturer, UCLA Law School (2002)
Dan S. Collins Lecturer, Center for Renaissance Studies, U. Mass. (2002)
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Univ. of Toronto School of Law (January, 2008)

Publications:

Books

• Heroic Love: Studies in Sidney and Spenser (Harvard UP, 1968)
• Golding's Tale (fiction) (Walker, 1972)
• Shakespearean Design (Harvard UP, 1972)
• Spenser's Art: A Companion to Book I of the Faerie Queen (Harvard UP, 1975)
• Alien Encounters: Anatomy of Science Fiction (Harvard UP, 1981)
• Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Harvard UP, 1993)
• Editor, Anthony and Cleopatra: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1977)
• Editor, Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1979)
• Editor, with George Slusser and George Guffey, Bridges to Science Fiction (S. Illinois UP, 1980)
• Editor, Shakespeare's Early Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1994)
• Editor, The Norton Shakespeare Workshop (CD-Rom) (W.W. Norton, 1998)

Essays and Chapters

• "Sidney's Womanish Man," Review of English Studies, XV (1964), 353-363.
• "Hamlet and the Shape of Revenge," English Literary Renaissance, I (1971), 132-143; reprinted in Homer to Brecht, ed. Michael Seidel and Edward Mendelson, Yale University Press, 1977; reprinted as "Reforming the Role" in Hamlet, ed. Harold Bloom, Chelsea House, 1986; reprinted as "Hamlet and the Shape of Revenge" in Shakespeare's Middle Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. David Young, Prentice Hall, 1993.
• "What is Science Fiction Anyhow?" The New Republic, Oct. 30, 1976, pp. 31-33.
• "Filling the Void: Verne, Wells, and Lem," Science Fiction Studies, VIII (1981), 121-142.
• "Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of Science Fiction," in Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. G. Slusser, E. Rabkin, and R. Scholes, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983, pp. 31-41.
• "Criticism as Quest: Murray Krieger and the Pursuit of Presence," New Orleans Review, X (1983), 8-11; reprinted in Murray Krieger and Contemporary Critical Theory, ed Bruce Hendricksen (N.Y.: Columbia University, 1986), pp. 21-28.
• "Othello's Occupation: Shakespeare and the Romance of Chivalry," English Literary Renaissance, XV (1985), 293-311; reprinted in Othello: Norton Critical Edition, ed. Edward Pechter (W.W. Norton, 2004).
• "The Author as Proprietor: Donaldson v. Becket and the Genealogy of Modern Authorship," Representations, 23 (1988), 51-85; reprinted in revised form in Of Authors and Origins: Essays on Copyright Law, ed. Brad Sherman and Alain Strowel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), pp. 23-55.
• "Conjuring Caesar: Ceremony, History, and Authority in 1598," English Literary Renaissance, 19 (1989), 291-304; reprinted in True Rites and Maimed Rites: Ritual and Anti-Ritual in Shakespeare and His Age, ed. Linda Woodbridge and Edward Berry (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), pp. 256-259; reprinted in Shakespeare?s Early Tragedies: a Collection of Critical Essays, ed. M. Rose (Prentice-Hall, 1994); reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism 30, ed. Marie Lazzari (Detroit: Gale Research, 1996), pp. 374-379.
• ?Wise Saws, Passionate Princes, and Plump Maggots: Hamlet and the Ages of Man,? Center for Shakespeare Studies, S. Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon, 1989, 16 pp.
• ?Science Fiction," The Spenser Encyclopedia, gen. ed. A.C. Hamilton (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990).
• "Castle Joyous," The Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A.C. Hamilton et al. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990).
• "The Author in Court: Pope v. Curll (1741)," Cultural Critique, 21 (Spring, 1992), 197-217; reprinted in Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, special number on "Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship," 10 (1992), 475-493; reprinted in The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature, ed. Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), 211-229.
• ?The Development of the Author?s Copyright in Britain,? The British Literary Booktrade, 1700-1820, ed. James K. Bracken and Joel Silver (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1995), 293-296.
• "Mothers and Authors: Johnson v. Calvert and the New Children of Our Imaginations," Critical Inquiry 22 (1996), 613-633; reprinted in The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender, and Science, ed. Paula A. Treichler, Lisa Cartwright, Constance Penley (New York University Press, 1998), pp. 217-239; reprinted in Parenting and Printing in Early Modern England, ed. Douglas A. Brooks, Ashgate Publishing, 2005, pp 351-370.
• "When is an Author?" Thresholds: Viewing Culture 10 (1997), 1-6.
• ?Literary Property Determined,? in The Book History Reader, ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (Routledge, 2002), pp. 231-240; reprinted from Authors and Owners.
• ?The Anti-Monopoly Origins of the Patent and Copyright Clause? (with Tyler T. Ochoa), Journal of the Copyright Society of America, 49 (2002), pp. 675-706.
• ?Copyright and Its Metaphors,? UCLA Law Review, 50 (2002), pp. 1-15.
• ?Nine-Tenths of the Law: The English Copyright Debates and the Rhetoric of the Public Domain,? Law and Contemporary Problems, 66 (2003), pp. 75-87; reprinted in Intellectual Property, ed. William T. Gallagher, The International Library of Essays in Law and Society, gen. ed. Austin Sarat, Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 385-398.
• ?What is Not a Scientific Author,? in Scientific Authorship, ed. Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison, (2003), pp. 389-372.
• ?Technology and Copyright in 1735: The Engraver?s Act,? The Information Society, 21 (2005), pp. 63-66.
• ?Copyright, Authors, and Censorship,? in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 5, ed. Michael Turner and Michael Suarez (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
• ?The Claims of Copyright: Public Purposes and Private Property,? in Media Ownership: Research and Regulation, ed. Ronald E. Rice (Hampton Press, 2007, forthcoming).
• ?Monstrous Bugs and Romantic Authors: Hollywood, Copyright, and Aesthetics,? in Copyright & Art, ed. Eberhard Ortland and Reinold Schmucker (Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag, 2007, forthcoming).

Essays and Chapters

• New Worlds for Old by David Ketterer, The Yale Review, LXIV (1974), 122-128.
• The Dramatic Use of Bawdy in Shakespeare by E.A.M. Colman, English Language Notes, XIII (1975)., 54-56.
• Inigo Jones by Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, JEGP, LXXIV (1975), 581-582.
• Floating Worlds by Cecelia Holland and Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke, The New Republic, March 20, 1976, pp. 28-29.
• The Motives of Eloquence by Richard A. Lanham, The Yale Review, LXVI (1977), 462-467.
• The Revels History of Drama in English, Vol. III, 1576-1613, by J. Leeds Barroll et al., Shakespeare Quarterly, XXVIII (1977), 534-538.
• "Science Fiction," The New Republic, Christmas Book Issue, Nov. 26, 1977, pp. 37-38.
• The Jew of Malta, ed. N.W. Bawcutt, Comparative Drama, XIV (1980), 87-89.
• Measure for Measure, the Law and the Convent by Darryl J. Gless, Renaissance Quarterly, XXXIV (1981), 145-146.
• Memoirs of a Space Traveler and More Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem, The New York Times Book Review, Sept. 19, 1982.
• The Twofold Vibration by Raymond Federman, The New York Times Book Review, November 7, 1982.
• The Structure of Shakespearean Scenes by James E. Hirsh, JEGP, LXXXII (1983), 230-232.
• A Rhetoric of the Unreal by Christine Brooke-Rose, Comparative Literature, XXXVI (1984), 169-171.
• Coming of Age in Shakespeare by Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare Quarterly, XXXIV, (1983), 382-383.
• To Be and Not To Be: Negation and Metadrama in Hamlet, by James L. Calderwood, Shakespeare Quarterly, XXXV (1984), 232-234.
• Shakespeare's Analogical Scene by Joan Hartwig, Renaissance Quarterly, XXXVII (1984), 664-665.
• Printing Technology, Letters & Samuel Johnson by Alvin Kernan, Poetics Today, 8 (1987), 714-717.
• The End of Kinship: "Measure for Measure," Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood by Marc Shell, Shakespeare Quarterly, 40 (1989), 97-100.
• Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law by Jane M. Gaines, Discourse 14 (1992), 146-149.
• To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization by William P. Alford, Harvard Business History Review 69 (1995), 448-449.
• Professional Imaginative Writing in England, 1670-1740: "Hackney for Bread" by Brean S. Hammond, JEGP 98 (1999),pp. 587-589.
• The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making by Adrian Johns, Criticism 42 (2000), pp. 115-119.
• Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power by Marilyn Randall, Comparative Literature 54 (2002), pp. 270-272.
• The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination by Paul K. Saint-Amour, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 28 (2006), pp. 263-266.
• The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England by Jody Greene, The Scriblerian 39 (2006), pp. 81-82.

Selected Recent Lectures and Papers:

• ?Authorship and Metaphor,? Rockefeller conference on Cultural Agency/Cultural Authority, Bellagio, Italy, March 8-12, 1993.
• ?When is an Author?? The Public Interest in Copyright, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, May 4, 1996.
• ?Mothers and Authors,? Law & Society Association, Glasgow, Scotland, July 12, 1996.
• ?Conceiving Intellectual Property: Johnson v. Calvert and Burrow-Giles v. Sarony,? Legal History Seminar, Yale Law School, October 22, 1996.
• ?Hogarth?s Act and The Development of Copyright,? International Conference on the Enlightenment, Dublin, July 26, 1999.
• ?Copyright Crises and the Digital Era,? Research Conference on ?New Paradigms and Parallels: The Printing Press and the Internet,? RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, October 5-6, 2000.
• ?Donaldson v. Becket and the Rhetoric of the Public Domain,? Conference of the Public Domain,? Duke University School of Law, November 9-11, 2001.
• ?Copyright and Its Metaphors,? The Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture, UCLA Law School, March 11, 2002.
• ?Shylock and the Spirit of Christmas,? The Dan B. Collins Memorial Lecture, Center for Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts, April 23, 2002.
• ?The Early Copyright Debates and the Rhetoric of the Public Domain,? Law Department, London School of Economics, December 6, 2002.
• ?The Formation of Copyright in Britain and the Public Sphere Today,? Modern Language Association, New York, December 30, 2002.
• "Technology and Copyright in 1735,? Conference on Copyright and the Networked computer, Washington, DC, Dec 6-9, 2003.
• ?Public Purposes and Private Property,? Copyright and Media Ownership Series, UCSB, November 17, 2004.
• ?Monstrous Bugs and Romantic Authors: Hollywood, Copyright, and Aesthetic Ideas,? Keynote lecture, International Conference on Copyright and Art, Zentrum für interdiszplinare Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Germany, May 17-20, 2005.
• ?Monstrous Bugs and Romantic Authors,? UCLA Law School IP Colloquium, March 23, 2007.

Selected Committee Service:

UCSB English Department Administrative Committee
UCSB English Department Graduate Committee
UCSB Graduate Council
UCSB Senate Committee on Research
UCSB Search Committee for Executive Vice Chancellor
UCSB Search Committee for Associate Vice Chancellor
UC Sunset Committee on Humanities and Social Science ORUs
UC President?s Advisory Committee on Research in the Humanities

Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association
Executive Committee, The Humanities Institute
Executive Committee, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
Executive Committee, The New Variorum Shakespeare
Member, Board of Governors, UC Humanities Research Institute

Selected Professional Activities:

Scholarly evaluations for university presses, including

• Columbia
• Duke
• Harvard
• Princeton
• Stanford
• Univ. of California
• Yale

Consultant and evaluator for publishers and granting agencies, including

• Prentice-Hall
• Scott Foresman
• W.W. Norton
• Fulbright Fellowships
• Stanford Humanities Center
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• MacArthur Foundation

Consultant on copyright issues for many law firms and studios, including

• Howard, Rice, Nemerovski
• Katten, Muchin & Zavis
• Leopold, Petrich & Smith
• Liner, Yankelevitz, Sunshine, & Regenstreif
• McDermott, Will & Emery
• Munger, Tolles, & Olson
• O?Donnell & Shaeffer
• Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman
• MGM
• Sony Pictures
• Twentieth Century Fox
• Warner Bros.

Pro Bono:

• Amicus Brief, Eldred v. Ashcroft, U.S. Supreme Court (No. 01-618)
• Expert Report, Golan v. Gonzales, U.S. Dist. Court, CO (No. Civ.01-B-1854(BNB)

Lectures and papers at many venues, including

• American Academy of Religion
• Brown University
• Carleton University
• Claremont Men?s College
• Duke University Law School
• Harvard University
• International Conference on the Enlightenment
• International Law and Society Association
• London School of Economics
• Modern Language Association of America
• Shakespeare Association
• Stanford University
• UC Berkeley
• UC Davis
• UCLA Law School
• University of Massachussetts
• University of Missouri
• University of Reading
• Yale University Law School
• ZIF, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Media Interviews:

• Soundings, National Public Radio
• What's the Word (MLA Series), National Public Radio