10 Mapleshade Lane ~ Stony Brook, NY  11790

Home Phone 631.689.7619 ~ email [email protected]

 

1968                     B.A. Fairfield University

 

                                1972           M.L.S.  SUNY at Stony Brook

 

1972-1989    Post graduate courses in English, media, and computer

                    technology at SUNY Stony Brook, NY Institute of

                   Technology, LIU at C.W. Post, and American University.

                             

1968-2001 Farmingdale (NY) High School

                  Teacher of English - AP Language and Composition and Humanities

 

1972-1989 SUNY Farmingdale

                  Adjunct Assistant Professor of English

 

1989-1999 Suffolk Community College

                  Adjunct Assistant Professor of English

 

1990-1995 The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC

                  Master Teacher, The NEH Teaching Shakespeare Institutes

 

1996 The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC

                  Director, The NEH Teaching Shakespeare Institute

 

1996-present Shakespeare magazine, Georgetown University

                  Editor and contributing writer

 

2000-present SUNY Stony Brook

Adjunct Professor

Designed and teach EGL 393/CEE 593 “Performance and Technology in Teaching Literature and Composition”

 

2001         Consulting for Cambridge University Press

 

2001                  Consulting for Center for Arts Education, NY

 

2002         The English-Speaking Union, New York, NY

Director of Education Outreach

 

 

 

 

 

Writing:                                  

                              “Teaching Shakespeare with a Computer.”  The English Journal October 1995

 

                              “Teaching in the New Millennium.”  CPB Digest September/October 1995.

 

      “To th’ Amazement of Mine Eyes: Macbeth on Video.”  Shakespeare Fall 1997

 

      “A Triumvirate of Julius Caesar Film Productions.”  Shakespeare Fall 1998

 

      “I Have Had a Most Rare Vision: Teaching Shakespeare with Video.” in

                                   Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1.

 

                               The Shakespeare Book of Lists NewPage Books. Spring 2001

 

Editing:                

                              Shakespeare Magazine 1997-2000 Editor and contributing writer

 

                              Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A

      Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Washington Square Press: 1993.

      assistant editor of Curriculum section

 

      Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1.  

     Washington Square Press: 1994. assistant editor of curriculum section

 

      Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello.  Washington

      Square Press: 1995. assistant editor of curriculum section

 

      The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Shakespeare.  MacMillan: 1999. technical editor

     

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected):

 

1983-1999    Long Island Language Arts Council (LILAC) – led workshops and made presentations

                    on teaching with technology

 

1988-2000    National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conventions in St. Louis, Baltimore,

                    Atlanta, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Orlando, San Diego, Chicago, Nashville, Denver, and

                    New York– led workshops and made presentations

 

1988-1997  NY State English Council (NYSEC) – led workshops and presentations

 

1988            Teaching Shakespeare Weekend – organized and directed in-service institute for secondary and college teachers

 

1990           Royal Shakespeare Company and The Folger Library Teaching Shakespeare Institute in England and Washington, DC – Master Teacher

 

1990-1996    U.S. Department of Education, Folger Library Festival Trainer-   trained teachers in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Baltimore, Georgia, and Alabama

 

1991           Santa Catalina School, Monterey, CA – site evaluation for the U.S. Dept. of Ed.

 

1991           Teaching Shakespeare in the City, CUNY Graduate Center – presentation

 

1991            Lakehurst High School, Lakehurst, NJ – site evaluation for the U.S. Dept. of Ed.

 

1992            Shakespeare Weekend, Cape May, NJ – presentation

 

1993            NY State Education Dept. Conference, Albany – led teacher workshops

 

1993            From the Page to the Stage, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Louisville, KY – led week-

                    long workshop for teachers

              

1994-2000  Westchester Teacher Center and College of New Rochelle – taught graduate course

                    Shakespeare Set Free part 1 and 2

 

1998-2000  SUNY Stony Brook- a series of Shakespeare workshops for pre- and in-service teachers

 

1999            Hofstra University – pre-performance workshop for teachers on King Lear

                   

1999                       Brooklyn Academy of Music – all-day Shakespeare workshop

 

            2000           NCTE International Teaching Shakespeare Conference – featured speaker

 

            2000           Hofstra University – pre-performance workshop for teachers on Love’s Labour’s Lost

 

2001          Digital Dialogues, Santa Monica, CA http://dd.ec2.edu/ 

                  Sponsored by USC and the Annenberg Center for Communications - Panelist