CV: CLIFFORD J. RONAN
1/14/2002
Professor of English, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
78666
Office
Flowers 332; Tel. (512) 245-2163, -3711, or 392-0399; e-mail cr06@swt.edu
SCHOOLING
Ph.D.(English)
University of California, Berkeley, 3/71
M.A.(English)
University of California, Berkeley, 8/60
A.B.(English, cum laude) 6/57, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
(Also,
post-graduate study with T.G. Rosenmeyer in the National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Seminar on "Classical Tragedy and Modern
Drama," U of California,
Berkeley, 6-8/75)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
1972-pres Professor (etc.), Department of English,
Southwest Texas State University
1996
Spring Semester, Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature,
British and
American Institute, University of Silesia-Katowice, Poland
April 1996
Guest Fulbright Lecturer in American Drama, Department of English,
Aristotle
University
of Thessaloniki, Greece (Guest Lectureship jointly sponsored by the University,
the Greek Fulbright Commission, and the European Fulbright Commission)
1995
Spring Semester, Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature,
British and
American
Institute, University of Silesia-Katowice, Poland
1994
SWT Exchange Professor, the English Institute, University of
Silesia-Katowice,
Poland
1993-94
Core Faculty, National
Endowment for the Humanities Interdisciplinary Humanities
1993-95
Seminar for Secondary
Teachers: "The Quest for Order and Happiness: The Individual,
the State and the Ethical Life”
1992-93 Core Faculty, National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for
Secondary Teachers: "Defining Ethical Citizenship: The Political
Outsider in
Literature and History”
1987
Core Faculty, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for
Secondary Teachers: "Literacy and Citizenship"
1976-79 Reader, Educational Testing
Service, Princeton, NJ: Advanced
Placement
examinations in composition
1965-72 Assistant Professor,
Department of English, University of Texas at Austin:
1961-65 Teaching Associate, Department
of Subject A (Remedial English), University
of
California, Berkeley
1958-61 Teaching Assistant, Department
of English, the University of California, Berkeley
1957-58 Permanent Substitute, 9th
grade Civics and English. Boston
English High School,
Boston, MA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Curriculum Development: Designed multi-course programs
in—
Fulbright
Silesian American Literature program
SWT
Poland Program
SWT
Canterbury Study Abroad Program
SWT
Open University Distanced Learning Programs (Eng/Hist; Eng/Phil/Art)
SWT-in-London
Program
Other Specialized Teaching:
On-site teaching of A/V assisted Shakespeare for
Secondary Teachers of the San Antonio area
Interdisciplinary Teaching in Honors, Graduate
Humanities, NEH Institutes for secondary
teachers.
Thesis advising, directing and reading graduate and
honors theses
Testing candidates in oral and written graduate
examinations.
Courses Recently Taught:
Shakespeare—graduate, 2 undergraduate,
Media-assisted Teaching Methods;
Recent
Shakespeare on Film
Tudor-Stuart Drama
Graduate Humanities: Western Literature and Thought,
500 BC-1600AD
Modern Drama (grad and undergrad levels) especially
American and British, in the Western
Context
Survey of World Drama I
Survey of World Literature I
Survey of American Masterpieces
Survey of British Masterpieces
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
1999
SWT
Research Enhancement Grant ($8000)
1997 SWT Presidential
Seminar winner
1996 a) Departmental Co-Nominee,
Presidential Award in Scholarship/Creative Activity
(and Departmental C0-Nominee for the Presidential Seminar)
b) “Teacher of the
Year 1997,” Catholic Student Center, SWT
c) Fulbright Senior Lecturer Award in
American Literature, University of Silesia,
Poland (Spring/Summer)
d) Faculty Senate Development Leave
(Spring)
1996
Fulbright Senior
Lecturer Award in American Literature, University of Silesia,
Poland (Fall)
1994 a) Commemorative Medal of the University of Silesia
b) Faculty Senate
Development Leave (Spring)
1993 a) "Teacher of the Year," Catholic Student Center, SWT
b) Recognized Teacher, Chi Omega Sorority,
SWT
1992 a) Recognized Teacher, Alpha Chi Sorority, SWT
b) Honorary Member (Faculty): Golden Key National Honor Society
1985-86
SWT Organized Research grants (($3780)
1984 a) 1st Alternate, National Endowment for the
Humanities, Summer Seminar
on Historical Fiction, 6-8/84
b) Invited Participant, Seminar on Shakespeare and the Classics,
Shakespeare
Association
of America.. Cambridge, MA
c) Finalist, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Contest for best
unpublished Medieval/Renaissance book manuscript
1981: a) Nominee for Pedagog, Teacher of the Year, SWT
b) Faculty Senate Development Leave, SWT (Fall)
1975 Participant, National Endowment for
the Humanities Summer Seminar on "Classical
Tragedy and Modern Drama," University of California, Berkeley, CA
1970 Nominee for Cactus Teaching Award,
University of Texas, Austin, TX
1964 Scholarly Travel Grant, University
of California, Berkeley, CA
1954 William Coe Collar Prize in Greek,
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1953 a) Harry
DeForest Smith Greek Fellow, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
b) Senior English and History awards, Roxbury Latin School, Boston, MA
REFEREED/INVITED
PUBLICATIONS and SCHOLARLY PAPERS
Book:
`Antike Roman’: Power Symbology and the Roman Play in Early Modern
England, 1585-1635. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press,
1995. (Receptiom of the book ‘Antike Roman’
After announcement of
the volume in The Chronicle of
Higher Education, Choice said the book
will “benefit teachers, scholars, and directors” specifying not
just “themes and motifs” but also the “garments [and] . . .
prop” used in the original productions. Criticism speaks of the book as a “lively and learned
survey . . [w]ritten in an engaging style.” The reviewer singles out the volume’s “very
interesting” theoretical treatment of anachronism and irrationality in
these plays and praises the book for “ranging knowledgeably through many
scholarly fields, including painting and illustration.” The London Times
Literary Supplement, speaks of the
work’s wide “scope” and “remarkable” quality,
whose wide “variety” of evidentiary “shards of
Romanity” creates a fresh and
“penetrating critique of the [Renaissance’s] Roman
fascination.” Shakespeare
Quarterly praises the book’s
“meticulousness” and “real thoroughness,” its
“deft and interesting” and
“fresh” and “useful perspectives, adding that the work
genuine “news” to one of the oldest areas of Shakespeare study and
does so with “compelling and even breathtaking” points, delivered
in “swift and memorable passage[s]”—“extended riffs
whose adroitness defies quick paraphrase.”)
Forthcoming:
“Keeping Faith: Water Imagery and
Religious Diversity in Othello.”
Chapter12 in Othello:
Critical
Essays. Ed. Philip C. Kolin.
Shakespeare Critical Essays. New
York: Routledge,
2001 [but
not yet available?].
“Caesar
On and Off the English Renaissance Stage.” Book chapter in Julius
Caesar: Critical
Essays. Ed.Horst
Zander. Shakespeare Critical Essays. New York: Routledge, [2002?].
Published:
"Lucan and the Self-Incised Voids
of Julius Caesar." In Drama and the Classical Heritage:
Comparative and Critical Essays. Ed. Clifford Davidson, Rand Johnson, John H. Stroupe.
AMS Ser. in Ancient and Classical
Cultures, No. 1. New York: AMS,
1993. 132-43.
"The Onomastics of Shakespeare's
Plays with Classical Settings."
In Names in Literature:
Essays from Literary
Onomastics Studies. Ed. Grace Alvarez-Altman and Frederick
M.
Burelbach. Lanham, MD:
University Press of America, 1987.
53-68.
Articles, Notes, Reviews,
Poem:
Forthcoming
“Titus
Andronicus, Comedy of Errors, Pericles,
and Shakespeare’s Greek Geography.”
Discoveries
19 (Spring 2002).
Published
Review.
Coppelia Kahn. Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women Feminist
Readings of
Shakespeare series. New York: Routledge, 1997. Reviewed in Comparative
Drama 32 (1999-2000).
Lucan and
the Self-Incised Voids of Julius Caesar." Comparative
Drama 22 (Fall 1988):
215-26.
"The Lucanic Omens in Julius
Caesar." In Comparative
Drama 22 (Summer 1988): 138-44.
"Caesar's Revenge and the Roman Thoughts in Antony and Cleopatra." Shakespeare
Studies 19 (1987): 171-82.
"Selimus and the Blinding of Gloster." Notes and Queries 231(l986): 360-62.
"Eliot's Polypheman Pastoral." Yeats Eliot Review 8 (1986): 109-18.
"Snakes in Catiline." Medieval
and Renaissance Drama in England 3
(1986): 149-63.
"Pharsalia 1.373-78:
Roman Parricide and Marlowe's Editors." Classical and Modern
Literature 6 (l986): 305-09.
"Sallust, Beasts That `Sleep and Feed,' and
Hamlet 5.2." Hamlet Studies 8 (1985): 72-80.
"Daniel, Rainolde, Demosthenes, and the
Degree Speech of Shakespeare's Ulysses."
Renaissance and
Reformation 9 (1985): 111-18.
Review.
Richard Dutton.: Ben
Jonson: To the First Folio. Cambridge
University
Press, l983. In Comparative Drama 19 (1985-86): 381-83.
"Pompey's Blood: Julius Caesar
I.i.51." The Explicator 42 (1983): 11-12.
"Homo Multiplex and the `Man' Equivocation in Hamlet." Hamlet Studies 4
(1982): 33-53.
Abstract. "Sweeney, Prufrock, Mr.
Eumenides, and the Polypheman Pastoral.
In
Rocky Mountain Review 36 (1982): 197.
"The Onomastics of Shakespeare's
Works with Classical Settings,"
Literary
Onomastics Studies 8 (1981): 47-69.
Abstract. "Coriolanus
and the Renaissance Versions of the Antique Conqueror's
Insultment." South Central Bulletin 40 (1980): 197.
Review. Ruth R. Wisse. The Schlemiel as Modern Hero. In Studies in American Humor
1
(1974):54-55.
Poem. "Construction Luncheon." In Poetry Amherst. Ed. Richard Aldridge. Amherst:
Amherst College
Press, l972.
With R. J. Kaufmann. "Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: An
Apollonian and Comparative
Reading." Comparative Drama 4 (1970-71): 18-51.
Papers Delivered at Scholarly Conferences:
“Fidelity,
Forgiveness, and the Religious Subtext of King Richard II.” Invited seminar paper for
the conference of the Shakespeare
Association of America, Minneapolis, MN, March 29,
2002.
“The Greatness of Chapman’s
Caesar.” South-Central Renaissance Conference, Texas A& M
University. College Station. April 9, 2001.
“Othello and the Audience Response to Religious Diversity.” South-Central Renaissance
Conference, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, April 4, 2000.
“Marston and the Problem Plays of
Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Association of America. San
Francisco, CA. April 1999.
“The Ending of Lear .” Joint Meeting of the South-Central Renaissance
Conference and the
South Eastern Renaissance Conference. College of Savannah. Savannah, GA.
March
1999.
“A Reconsideration of
Marston’s Sophonisba.” South-Central Renaissance Conference.
Waco, TX. 4/3/98
“Marston’s WonderWoman: Sophonisba’s Tragic Autonomy and the Road from
Shakespeare
to Webster.” Invited paper, Shakespeare Association of
America. Cleveland, OH.
3/19/98.
“Deterministic Criticism and the
Mystery of Desire in Shakespeare’s All’s Well.”
South-Central Renaissance Conference. Austin, TX. 3/21/97.
“Shepard, Mamet, and the Word-Smith
Tradition in American Drama.” European
Fulbright Commission and Aristole
University. Thessaloniki,
Greece. 4/3/96.
“Post-Modernism in Contemporary
American Drama.” European Fulbright
Commission and Aristole
University. Thessaloniki,
Greece. 4/4/96.
"Poland in Shakespeare's Central
Europe." Conference on Poland
in Britain, Britain in
Poland. University of
Wroclaw and the British Council.
Wroclaw, Poland. 4/16/96.
"Caron's Massacres du Triumvirat and the Tudor-Stuart Roman Play." Renaissance
Society of
America and South-Central Renaissance Conference. Dallas, TX. 3/12/94.
"Shakespeare and the `Married Calm of
State'--and Couples." South-Central
Renaissance Conference. San
Antonio, TX. 3/26/93.
"Ethnicity, Genre, and
Tone." Conference of the
Shakespeare Association of America.
Seminar on "Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Shakespeare and His
Contemporaries.”
Atlanta, GA. 4/1/93.
"Ciceronian Clemency and the Ladder
of Degree in Tudor-Stuart Roman Plays."
South-Central Renaissance Conference. Beaumont, TX. 3/31/89.
"Cleopatra's Mirror, or Prudentia at the Monument." Southwest Regional Renaissance
Conference of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California. San Marino, CA.
3/21/88.
"Citizen Agonistes in Antigone
and Hamlet." College English Association. New Orleans,
LA. 3/21/88.
"Ancient Pagan Ingratitude in
Tudor-Stuart Dramas."
South-Central Renaissance
Conference. Gulfport, MS. 3/28/88.
"Sallust, Beasts That `Sleep and
Feed,' and Hamlet V.iii."
South-Central Renaissance
Conference. San Marcos, TX.
4/5/86.
"Caesar's Revenge and the Roman Thoughts of Shakespeare's Antony."
South-Central
Renaissance Conference.
College Station, TX. 3/27/85.
"Shakespeare and the
Lucanic-Patristic Vision of Roman Saevitia." Seminar on
Shakespeare
and the Classics. Shakespeare Association of America. Cambridge, MA. 4/3/84.
"`Deconstructing' Anachronism and the
Elizabethan Roman Play."
Themes in Drama
Conference (North American Division). Riverside, CA. 2/20/84.
"The Past in Elizabethan Roman
Plays." Renaissance Society
of America, meeting
with the South-Central Renaissance Conference. Memphis, TN. 3/25/83.
"Sweeney, Prufrock, Mr. Eumenides,
and the Polypheman Pastoral."
Classical Tradition
Section. Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association. Salt Lake
City, UT. 10/30/82.
"Thomas Lodge and the Tudor Roman
Play." English Drama Section.
Sixteenth
Century Conference. St.
Louis, MO. 10/23/82.
"Valerianus and Shakespeare: An
Instance of the Elizabethan Reception of
Continental Hieroglyphics."
Conference on the English Emblem and the European
Context. McGill University,
the Royal Society and the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada.
4/14/82.
"Shakespearean Romance and the Marine
World of Plautus' Rope and
Theocritean Piscatory."
Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association. Poughkeepsie, NY. 12/1/81.
"Sources of Gloucester's
Blinding." 2nd
World Congress of the International Shakespeare
Association, with the Shakespeare Association of America. Stratford-upon-Avon,
England. 8/3/81.
"Teaching Teachers PBS
Shakespeare." College English
Association. Cherry Hill, NJ.
4/4/81.
"Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Renaissance Version of the Antique Conqueror's
Insultment."
English Renaissance Section.
South Central Modern Language Association. Memphis,
TN. 10/30/80.
"Quibbling Ingenium: The Delights of `Man' in Hamlet."
Arkansas Philological Association.
Little
Rock, AS. 11/13/80.
"The Onomastics of Shakespeare's
Works with Classical Settings."
Literary Onomastics
Conference. Rochester, NY.
6/3/80.
"Greek to Him? Shakespeare's On Degree and the
Orations of Rainolde and Demosthenes."
Pacific Northwest
Renaissance Conference. Tacoma, WA. 3/21/80.
"The Eagle in Cymbeline, Shakespeare's Final `Roman Thought.'" Conference on
Rome
in the Renaissance. Binghamton,
NY. 10/20/79.
"Shakespeare's `Strange Art': The
Mannerist Two Noble Kinsmen." South-Central
Renaissance Conference.
Norman, OK. 3/19/75.
“Patterns of Passion in
Wordworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey.’” Love in Literature Series.
Department of English.
University of Texas at Austin. 2/9/66.
Work in Progress:
1. Book manuscript on John
Marston, Satirist and Playwright.
2. Collecting contributions
for, writing for, and editing a Routledge volume of
new
critical essays on Shakespeare’s King Richard II.
3. Invited
“Preface” to Alexander Jacob, Noblest Romans: The Civil War in
English
Renaissance Tragedy, Edwin Mellen Press, forthcoming. The invitation
specifies that I have
been
selected “since [I] have published an excellent book on the
subject.”
Service:
PUBLIC SERVICE
Finance Committee, Catholic Student
Center, Southwest Texas State University. 1989-95,
1996-98
Board Secretary and Board Member,
Voluntary Action Center of Caldwell County, Lockhart,
TX. 1973-75
Advisor/Volunteer for Boy Scouts, high
school and college church groups, special college
admissions programs, college housing groups, 1959-75 .
Invited speaker and judge for various
other organizations, on and off campus
Enlisted personnel in the United States
Army Active Reserve, 1957-63
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
Professional
Memberships:
Renaissance Society of
America
Shakespeare Association of
America
South-Central Renaissance
Conference
SHAKSPER: The Global
Electronic Shakespeare Conference
FICINO: Renaissance and Reformation Electronic
Conference
Texas Faculty Association
(TSTA/NEA)
Professional Service:
Texas Faculty Association.
SWT Delegate to the Annual Meeting . San Antonio, TX. 4/99.
Polish-American Fulbright
Commission. Interviewer, Board of Examiners of Polish Fulbright
Scholar
Applicants. Warsaw, Poland. 5/96.
Conference of College
Teachers of English of Texas: Assistant Chair of Local Arrangements,
1973.
South-Central Renaissance
Conference:
Resident
Agent of S-CRC, a Texas non-profit corporation 4/80-
Panel
Chairman 4/87
Local
Arrangements Chairman 4/85-4/86
Program
Chairman, 5/81-4/82
Executive
Secretary-Treasurer, 4/78-4/80
Grant Applicant
Research
Enhancement Grant, Spring ’98
Research
Enhancement Grant, Spring ’97
Fulbright
Senior Lecturer, Fall ’96
Fulbright
Senior Lecturer, Fall ’95 and Spring ’96. NEH Masterwork Study Project, 12/92
NEH Junior
Scholar Project, 3/90
Contributor/Poster: SHAKPER and FICINO
Southwest Texas State University:
For the University:
Member,
Presidential Seminar Committee 1999-2001, 1998-99, 1979-82
Member,
Presidential Committee on ADA Compliance (for the Handicapped) 1/93-
Member, Sigma
Iota Rho, SWT International Honors Society
Mentor,
Undergraduate, 9/92-97
Member,
Conference Director and Participant, Center for the Study of the Basic Skills
Conference Director 10/82; Conference Respondent, 1/82;
Conference Presenter 3/81, 4/82; Conference Facilitor 4/79;
Board
Member 1979-83
Chairman,
University Audio-Visual Committee, 1977-79; committee member 1974-79
Member,
Presidential Scholar Selection Committee, 1982-84
University
Coordinator of Foreign Travel—Europe, 1979-83
Member, Foreign
Study Committee, 1985-87
Member,
Fulbright Selection Committee, 1982-88
Reader of MA
theses
For the English Department:
Member Senior
Faculty/Personnel Committee 1981-
Chair and
Member, Full Professor Review Committee, 1998-2000
Library
Committee 1999-2001
Member, Brasher
Library Committee, 1995-97
Participant/Reader, Sigma Tau Delta St. Patrick’s Day Reading
3/17/2000
Member,
Graduate Committee 1993-97
Member, MA
Committee, 1997-
Member, Ad
Hoc Committee to Revise Annual
Review, 1997-
Participant/Reader, Spenser Read-in 2/96
Participant/Reader, African American Read-in 2/95, 2/99, 2/00, 2/01
Acting
Assistant Chair, 8-9/94
Reader of MA
theses
Mentor, for
English majors 9/92-94
Chairman of the
Creative Writing Master's Committee, 1981-93
Chairman or
Member, Gates Thomas Prize Committee, 1980-
Member,
Planning Committee, 1992-93
Member, Catalog
Revision Committee, 1991
Alternate
Delegate, Liberal Arts Tenure/Promotion/Merit Bd, 2001, 1987
Director,
Advanced Courses, 1985-88
Director,
Teacher Preparation,1980-83
Slide
Librarian, 1974-82
Advisor, Persona, the campus literary magazine 1974-80
University
of Texas at Austin:
Referee, Texas
Studies in Language and Literature
Board Member, Program for Educational Opportunity
Board Member,
International House
Other:
Presenter:
Mentor (discussion leader): Wimberley
Shakespeare Guild 10/99-4/00.
“Art and Science
in the Prague of Shakespeare’s Mannerist Contemporary, the Emperor
Rudolf
II.” SWT/Liberal Arts club for the study of the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance.
Feb. 25, 2000.
.
“Writing the ‘Antike Roman’" Onion Creek Arts and Literary Society, Austin,
TX. 1/10/98.
“Travel, Study Abroad, Teaching Abroad, and the Texas College
Classroom." Conference
of Two Year Colleges of the Southwest.Del Mar College,
Corpus Christi, TX.
10/12/96.
"Krakow and the Polish Jewish Heritage." Outreach Club, Temple Beth Israel,
Austin, TX.
3/5/95.
"SWT
in Silesia and Present-day Poland," San Marcos Rotary, 9/21/94.
"Hamlet," SWT University Women's Association. 11/29/93.
"Merchant
of Venice,"; SWT University
Women's Association. 3/93.
"Christianity in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Othello"
Conference on Christianity
and Literature, St. Mark's Episcopal Church; San Marcos, TX. 10/26/92.
"Using the BBC Shakespeare in the College Classroom." Conference, Texas Joint Council
of Teachers of English, Districts I and II, Corpus Christi, TX. 9/79.
Chair and Presenter:
Interscholastic League Literary Criticism Panel
Presented "An Introduction to Sophocles' Oedipus the King." University of Texas at
Austin. Austin,
TX. 10/10/92.
Referee, Journal of the
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance
Association
Consultant, Tenure Board of
English Department at University of North Texas
Invited Guest Participant:
Virgil Bimillennial Symposium of the University of Houston. 1/81
Keynote Speaker: Inservice
Orientation, NE Independent School District of San Antonio, TX
9/79