Dympna Callaghan

Dean's Professor in the Humanities

Ph.D. 1986, Sussex University

Office: 435 HL, 315-443-9469
Email: dccallag@syr.edu

Interests: Renaissance Literature; the relation between art and literature.

Thesis Supervisions: A variety of topics within the area of early modern studies, including literacy, performance during the interregnum, and representations of the east.

Employment
Visiting Professorships
Other InstitutionalAffiliations
Education
Honors and Awards
Books
Articles, Etc.
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Employment

2003- Dean's Professor in the Humanities, Syracuse University

1999-2003 William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, Syracuse University

1999 Full Professor, Department of English, Syracuse University

1994-1999 Associate Professor, Syracuse University

1989-1994 Assistant Professor, Syracuse University

1987-1989 Interim Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University

1998 Cambridge University Shakespeare Summer School

1999 Cambridge University Shakespeare Summer School

2002 Cambridge University Shakespeare Summer School

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Visiting Professorships

1995 Women's Studies, Queen's University Belfast, November-December

2004 May-June, British Academy Visiting Professorship

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Other Institutional Affiliations

Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University (since 1995)

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Education

1986 D.Phil. Sussex University

1982 MA, Renaissance Literature , Sussex University

1981 MA, American Studies, Bowling Green State University

1980 BA (Hons), English Literature, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

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Honors and Awards

2008 Ph Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars

2006 Alice Griffin Fellow, University of Auckland , New Zealand , July 26-Aug 17

2006 Margaret Dalzeil lecturer, University of Otago , New Zealand

2005 Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award, Syracuse University Graduate School

2002-2003 Getty Long-term Scholar, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles , CA

2002 Visiting Fellow, Hughes Hall, Cambridge University (July)

2001 Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship (three months)

2000 Arts and Sciences Convocation Address, Syracuse University

2000 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title

2000 Plenary Address, Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference, Susquehanna University

1999 Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library (two months)

1999 Award for Graduate Teaching in English

1998 Cooper Lecturer, University of Arkansas , Little Rock

1997 Hudson Strode Lecturer, University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa

1995-1996 Folger Shakespeare Library, Long-term Fellowship

1995 Honorary Phi Beta Kappa

1994 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University

1991-1992 Monticello College Foundation Fellowship, Newberry Library

1989-1990 Fred L. Emerson Faculty Fellow of Modern Letters, Syracuse University

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Books

The Taming of the Shrew (Norton Critical Edition; Forthcoming Dec 2008)

Shakespeare's Sonnets (Blackwells, 2007)

The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies (anthology, Palgrave, in 2007)

Romeo and Juliet : Texts and Contexts ( Bedford Books, 2003)

Shakespeare Without Women (Routledge, 2000; 2 nd printing 2001)

John Webster's Duchess of Malfi: Contemporary Critical Essays (Macmillan, 2000)

The Feminist Companion to Shakespeare (Blackwells, 2000; paperback, 2001; online edition 2003) Winner of the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title; electronic edition 2006

Feminist Readings in Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects edited with Valerie Traub and Lindsay Kaplan (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics with Lorraine Helms and Jyostna Singh (Blackwells, 1994)

Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: A Study of Othello , King Lear , the Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil (UK edition, Harvester; USA edition, Humanities, 1989; paperback, 1992)

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Articles, Etc.

"The Taming of The Shrew" in ed., Pat Parker , The Shakespeare Encyclopedia (forthcoming)

"Confounded by Winter: Speeding Time in Shakespeare's Sonnets " in ed., Michael Schoenfeldt, A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets (Blackwells 2007)

"The 'Wilde' Side of Justice in Early Modern England and Titus Andronicus " with Chris R. Kyle for Shakespeare and the Law edited by Constance Jordan and Karen (Palgrave 2007)

"Do Characters Have Souls?" Shakespeare Studies (2006)

'The Duchess of Malfi and Widows' in Patrick Cheney and Garrett Sullivan, eds, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, (Oxford University Press, 2005)

William Evan Burton, A Midsummer Nights Dream (1854), prompt book introduction (Gale Thomson, 2004)

David Garrick and George Colman, A Midsummer Nights Dream (1763), prompt book introduction (Gale Thomson, 2004)

John Philip Kemble, A Midsummer Nights Dream (1816), prompt book introduction (Gale Thomson, 2004)

Samuel Phelps, A Midsummer Nights Dream (1861), prompt book introduction (Gale Thomson, 2004)

Julia Marlowe and E.H. Sothern, The Taming of the Shrew (1923), prompt book introduction (Gale Thomson, 2004)

Julia Marlowe and E.H. Sothern, Romeo and Juliet (1905), prompt book introduction (Gale Thomson, 2004)

Augustin Daly, The Taming of the Shrew (1887), prompt book introduction (Gale Thomson, 2004)

Ellen Van Volkenburg, Othello (1930), prompt book introduction (Gale Thomson, 2004)

'The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid's Metamorphoses in Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis' in Richard Dutton and Jean Howard, eds, A Companion to Shakespeare's Works : Vol. IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies and Late Plays , (Blackwells, 2003)

'Comedy and Epyllion in Post-Reformation England ' Shakespeare Survey: Shakespeare and Comedy, 56, ( Cambridge, 2003)

'The Terms of Gender: Gay and Feminist Edward II' in Avraham Oz, ed., Marlowe: Contemporary Critical Essays, (Basingstoke, 2003). Reprinted.

'(Un)natural Loving: Swine, Pets and Flowers in Venus and Adonis ' in Phillipa Berry and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, eds, Textures of Renaissance Knowledge, (Manchester University Press, 2003). Also published in Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar, 3, (2003), http://eserver.org/emc/1-3/issue3.html

'Introduction', The Idea of History in Current Renaissance Studies: A Colloquium, Shakespeare Studies, XXX, (2002)

'Love and Marriage in Romeo and Juliet', Guide to the Season's Plays 2001-2, The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC

'Postmodern Approaches to Teaching Hamlet' in Bernice Kliman, ed., Approaches to Teaching Hamlet, (MLA, 2002)

'Romeo and Juliet : A Love Story', Asides: The Shakespeare Theatre, 4, (2001-2)

'Body Problems', Shakespeare Survey, (2002)

'Shakespeare and Religion', Textual Practice, (2000)

'Looking Well to Linens: Women and Cultural Production in Othello ' in Jean Howard and Scott Shershow, eds, Marxist Shakespeares, (Routledge, 2000)

'Race and Representation: The Issues at Stake', Cahiers Charles V, (Paris, 1998)

'Representing Race on Shakespeare's Stage', Shakespeare Survey, (1998)

'All is Semblative a Woman's Part' in R.S. White, ed., Twelfth Night: A Casebook, (Macmillan, 1996). Reprinted.

'Othello was a White Man: Racial Impersonation on the Renaissance Stage' in Terence Hawkes, ed., Alternative Shakespeares II, (Routledge, 1996)

'The Castrator's Song: Female Impersonation on the Early Modern Stage', Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 26, 2, (1996)

'Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak' in Nigel Wood and Barbara Rasmussen, eds, Theory in Practice, (open University Press, 1996)

'Gay and Feminist Edward II : Christopher Marlowe and Elizabeth Cary' in Dympna Callaghan, Valerie Traub and Lindsay Kaplan, Feminist Readings in Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects, (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

'The Asthetics of Marginality: The Theatre of Joan Littlewood' in Marianne Novy, ed., Cross-Cultural Performances: More Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare: II, (University of Illinois Press, 1993). Reprinted in Joseph Tardiff, ed., Shakespearean Criticism, (Gale Research Inc., 1996)

'The Vicar and the Virago: Feminism and the Problem of Identity' in Judith Roof and Robyn Wiegman, eds, Who Can Speak?, (University of Illinois Press, 1995)

'The Aesthetics of Marginality: The Theatre of Joan Littlewood and Buzz Goodbody' in Karen Laughlin and Catherine Schuler, eds, Feminist Aesthetics in Theatre, (Farleigh Dickenson, 1995)

'Interview with Seamus Deane', Social Text, (1994)

'Re-reading The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queen of Jewry' in Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker, eds, Women, Race and Writing in the Renaissance, (Routledge, 1994)

'And all is Semblative a Woman's Part: Body Politics and Twelfth Night' , Textual Practice, 7, 3, (1993)

'Wicked Women in Macbeth' in Mario de Cesare, ed., Reconsidering the Renaissance, (MRTS Press, 1992)

'Talking About Change: The Discursive versus the Material in the Case of Physical Impairment', Women's Studies News, ( Syracuse, 1992)

'Buzz Goodbody: Directing for Change', in Jean Marsden, The Appropriation of Shakespeare, (Harvester, 1991)

'Resistance and Recuperation: Kenneth Branagh's Henry V' , Shakespeare on Film Newsletter, 15, 2, (1991)

'Pat Parker: Feminism in Postmodernity' in John Thompson and Anthony Easthope, eds, Contemporary Poetry Meets Modern Theory, (Harvester, 1991)

'Working-Class Mothering and the Problem of Weaning' in Nan Bauer Maglin and Nancy Schneidewind', eds, Women and Step-parenting , (Temple University Press, 1989)

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Editorial Boards

Shakespeare Quarterly

Explorations in Renaissance Culture

Critical Survey

Shakespeare (published by the British Shakespeare Association)

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