Education:

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Publications:

Books

~The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Renaissance England. Oxford University Press, 2000.
~Robert Burton. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986.
~The Elisaeis of William Alabaster. Texts and Studies, Studies in Philology, 1979. Critical edition, translation, and introduction to Elizabethan Neo-latin poem.
~Mirror and Veil: The Historical Dimension of Spenser's Faerie Queene. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977.

Articles

~"Astrophel: Spenser's Double Elegy," Studies in English Literature 4 (1970), 27-35.
~"History and the Poet's Golden World: the epic catalogues in The Faerie Queene," English Literary Renaissance 4 (1974), 241-67.
~"Pictorialism and Meaning in Catullus 64," Latomus: Revue d'Études Latines 36 (1977), 746-56.
~"Music and Sense in Handel's Setting of Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso," Eighteenth Century Studies 12 (1978), 16-46. With John Powell.
~"Authority and the Truth of Experience in Petrarch's 'Ascent of Mount Ventoux,'" Philological Quarterly 69 (1983), 507-20.
~"The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm, Anti-theatricalism, and the Image of the Elizabethan Theater," ELH 52 (1985), 279-310.
~Review of Barbara K. Lewalsky, ed., Renaissance Genres, in Style 21 (1987), 654-59.
~"Alabaster, William" in Spenser Encyclopedia, eds. A.C. Hamilton et al. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1990), p. 11.
~"Allegory, historical" in Spenser Encyclopedia, pp. 23-24.
~"Dixon, John," in Spenser Encyclopedia, pp. 220-21.
~"The Faerie Queene, Book V" Spenser Encyclopedia, pp. 280-83.
~"Giant with Scales" Spenser Encyclopedia, pp. 331-32.
~"Mary Queen of Scots," Spenser Encyclopedia, p. 458.
~"Epic and Romance," Literature and Criticism: a New Century Guide. London: Croom Helm, 1990, pp. 177-87.
~Review of E. Patricia Vicari, The View from Minerva's Tower: Learning and Imagination in The Anatomy of Melancholy, University of Toronto Quarterly, 60 (1990), pp. 109-11.
~Review of Gail McMurray Gibson, Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages, Renaissance Quarterly 44 (1991), pp. 113-115.
~"Milton and the Art of Italy: a Revisionist View," in Milton and Italy: Contexts, Images, Contradictions, ed. Mario de Cesare, SUNY University Press, 1990, 215-36.
~"William Alabaster," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. David A. Richardson, Gale, Pub.: Detroit, Washington, D.C., London, 1993, pp. 2-12.
~. Review of John N. King, Spenser's Poetry and the Reformation Tradition, JEGP 92 (1993), pp. 230-233.
~Review of Jason P. Rosenblatt, Torah and Law in Paradise Lost, Christianity and Literature 43 (1994), 417-420.
~"God's Body: Incarnation, Physical Embodiment, and the Legacy of Biblical Theater in the Sixteenth Century," in Subjects on the World's Stage, eds. David Allen and Robert White. Delaware University Press, 1995.
~"Extracts from the Lincoln Mystery Plays," Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama.
~"The Civic Theater of Suffering: Hans Memling's Passion and Late Medieval Drama," in European Iconography East and West, ed. György Szönyi, Symbola et Emblemata series, E.J. Brill: Leiden, 1996, pp. 22-34.
~Review of John Watkins, The Spector of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic, Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998), 297-99.
~"Vital Cultural Practices: Shakespeare and the Mysteries," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29 (1999), 149-168.

Papers Presented:

~"Word against Image, Image against Word: Idolatry, Logolatry, and the Elizabethan Stage," American Academy of Religion confer-ence, November, 1985.
~"Milton and the Art of Italy: a Revisionist View," International Milton Symposium, Florence, Italy, June, 1988.
~"God's Body: Incarnation, Physical Embodiment, and the Legacy of Biblical Theater in the Sixteenth Century," Conference on Christianity and Literature, Seattle Pacific University, April, 1990.
~"Representation and Physicality in Medieval Drama," Seventh Citadel Conference on Literature, Charleston, S.C., March 1, 1991.
~"The Theater of Suffering: Hans Memling's Passion and Late Medieval Drama," at international conference in Szeged, Hungary, "European Iconography East and West, June, 1993.
~"Iconoclasm and Biblical Theatre: Suppression and Loss," at Reformation Studies Colloqium, Magdalen College, Cambridge, 11-13 April, 1994.
~"`Late-medieval' and 'early-modern' Bodies in Pain: Stage Torture and Bloodshed from the Cycles to Shakespeare," 30th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2-4 May, 1995.
~"'The Eye of Man Hath Not Heard, the Ear of Man Hath Not Seen': The Epistemology of Tales and Tempests," Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, October, 1997.
~"Mockery, farce, and risus paschalis in the York 'Christ before Herod'," at Ninth International Colloquium of Société Internationale pour l'Étude du Théatre Médiéval in Odense, Denmark, 3-9 August, 1998.

Teaching Experience

Surveys of Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Upper-division courses in Chaucer, Medieval Drama, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Seventeenth-century Poetry, Literature of the Hebrew Bible, Literature of the New Testament, Jane Austen.
Graduate courses in Spenser, Milton, Seventeenth-century Poetry, Narrative and Biblical Hermeneutics, Medieval Drama.

Committee and Administrative Service:

UCSB English Department

Academic Senate

Systemwide Senate

College of Letters and Science

Administrative

Professional Service:

• Executive board of Spenser Society (1980-1983; 1995-1997)
  
• Reader of grant proposals for National Endowment for the Humanities (77-present) and the Canada Council for the Arts
  
• Reader for University of North Carolina Press, University of California Press, Cornell University Press, University of Toronto Press, University of Chicago Press, Garland Press, Broadview Press, Studies in English Literature, PMLA, English Literary Renaissance, College English, Medieval and Renaissance Texts (SUNY, Albany), Renaissance Quarterly, Albion.
  
  

Professional Memberships:

• Modern Language Association
  
• Renaissance Society of America
  
• Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
  
• Société Internationale pour l'Étude du Théatre Médiéval
  
• Spenser Society