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English Literature: Stratford and London, England
Shakespeare

July 31 - August 26, 2008

English-Stratford Instructor Bio

Faculty

Jonathan F. S. Post is the founding director of the UCLA Stratford Summer Program, established in 1993.Professor Post received his AB from Amherst College in 1970 and his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Rochester, 1976. Having been on the faculty at Yale University, he is currently a UCLA professor. He teaches Shakespeare, Renaissance, and Seventeenth Century literature inclusive of Milton, and poetry. From 1990 to 1993 he served as chair of the UCLA Department of English. He has been a Fellow of both the National Endowment of Humanities (1979-1980) and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1984-1985), and from 1985 to 1988 he served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Publication of the Modern Language Association. His most recent book is English Lyric Poetry of the Earlier Seventeenth Century, Routledge, 1999.

A. R. Braunmuller received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1971. He is currently a UCLA professor, specializing in Renaissance English and European Drama. In addition to numerous articles on Renaissance and modern dramatists, he has edited several plays -- most recently, Shakespeare's King John (Oxford, 1989) and Macbeth (Cambridge, 1997). He is a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Gold Shield Award for Faculty Excellence. He currently serves as Associate General Editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare and as co-general editor of the New Pelican Shakespeare. He recently completed (with David S. Rodes) a CD-Rom version of Macbeth. He published the New Pelican edition of Antony and Cleopatra in 1999 and the New Pelican Merchant of Venice in the autumn of 2000. His essay on names and history in Henry IV, Part 2 will shortly appear in Shakespeare Quarterly.