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CURRICULUM VITAE (short
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Professor (Emeritus), Department
of English, SUNY Buffalo
Schools & Degrees:
A.B. cum laude, Amherst
College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1966
M.A., Ph.D., University
of California, Berkeley, 1971, 1973
Academic Honors, Awards, Fellowships,
& Grants:
Ralph Waldo Rice Prize for Best Honors
Thesis in English, Amherst College, 1966
Ford Foundation Special Career Fellowship,
University of California, Berkeley, 1967-71
Teaching Assistantship, University
of California, Berkeley, 1967-69
Fellowship, Center for the Psychological
Study of the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, 1971-72
Teaching Associateship, University
of California, Berkeley, 1972-73
NEH Grant: Summer Seminar for College
Teachers (Co-director), 1984
University at Buffalo Student Association Award for Excellence
in Teaching, 2000
Academic Positions:
Assistant Professor, State University
of New York at Buffalo, 1973-79
Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo,
1979-97
Full Professor, SUNY Buffalo, 1997-2006
Director, Center for the Psychological
Study of the Arts, 1983-86, 1989-91
Director, Center for the Study of
Psychoanalysis and Culture, 1994, 1997-98
Associate Dean of Arts and Letters,
1986-89, 1992-93, 1996-97
Mellon Visiting Distinguished Professor
(English), Rice University, 1989
Visiting Professor (Comparative Literature),
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990
Associate Dean for Educational Technology,
UB College of Arts and Sciences, 1997-98
Associate Vice Provost for Educational
Technology, 1998-2002
Director, Educational Technology Center, 1998-2002
Retired, 2006
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
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Composition,
Composition and Computers, Introduction to Literature, Survey
of English Literature, American Renaissance Literature, English
Renaissance Literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Shakespeare,
Modern Poetry, Literature and Psychology, Best Sellers, Freshman
Honors Seminar, Senior Honors Seminar, "Good and Evil" |
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Graduate Courses Taught:
The Revenge Play (Classical
and Renaissance), Literature and Psychology, Freud, English
Renaissance Literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Shakespeare,
History of Literary Criticism, Supervised Teaching, Theory of
Psychotherapy, "The Delphi Seminar," Psychoanalytic
Criticism
Publications (excluding book
reviews):
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Book:
Poetic
Will: Shakespeare and the Play of Language
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) |
Articles:
"Inverted Vengeance:
Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy," American Imago,
28 (1971), 247-67.
Critical Introduction to a facsimile
edition of George Chapman, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
(1613) (The Scolar Press: London, 1973).
"Malice in Paradise: Isolation
and Projection in 'The Man Who Loved Islands,'" The
D.H. Lawrence Review, 10 (1977), 223-41.
"William Shakespeare: A
Bibliography of Psychoanalytic and Psychological Criticism,
1964-1975," International Review of Psycho-Analysis,
5 (1978), 361-72.
"Rape and Revenge in Titus
Andronicus," English Literary Renaissance,
8 (1978): 159-82. Reprinted in Harris, ed., Shakespearean
Criticism (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1986).
"Malvolio's Fall,"
Shakespeare Quarterly, 29 (1978), 85-90.
"Freud and the Interpenetration
of Dreams," in The Tropology of Freud, Diacritics,
9 (1979), 98-110.
"Paranoia, Criticism, and
Malvolio," Hartford Studies in Literature, 11
(1979), 1-23.
"Shakespeare's Nothing,"
in Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays,
ed. Schwartz and Kahn (The Johns Hopkins University Press:
Baltimore, 1980), pp. 244-63.
"Bibliography of Psychological
and Psychoanalytic Writings on Shakespeare: 1964-1978,"
in Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays,
ed. Schwartz and Kahn (The Johns Hopkins UP: Baltimore, 1980),
pp. 264-88.
"Literature and Psychology"
(with Murray Schwartz), in Interrelations of Literature,
ed. Jean-Pierre Barricelli and Joseph Gibaldi (Modern Language
Association: New York, 1982), pp. 205-224.
"Murther: The Hypocritic
and the Poet" [on Robert Duncan], in Rhetoric, Literature,
and Interpretation, ed. Garvin and Mailloux (Lewisburg,
Pa.: Bucknell UP, 1983), pp. 80-94.
"Phantasmagoric Macbeth,"
English Literary Renaissance, 16 (1986), 520-49. Reprinted
in Rudnytsky, ed., Transitional Objects, Potential Spaces:
Literary Uses of D. W. Winnicott (Columbia UP, 1995).
"Filia Oedipi: Father
and Daughter in Freudian Theory," in Daughters and
Fathers, ed. Boose and Flowers (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
UP, 1988), pp. 75-96.
"Reading After Freud,"
in Contemporary Literary Theory, ed. Atkins and Morrow
(Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1989), pp. 158-179.
"Rape, Writing, Hyperbole:
Shakespeare's Lucrece," in Compromise Formations:
Current Directions in Psychoanalytic Criticism, ed. Camden
(Kent State UP, 1989), pp. 182-98.
"What Is Shakespeare?,"
in Shakespeare's Personality, ed. Holland, Homan, and
Paris (Berkeley: UC Press, 1989), pp. 226-43.
"Hyperbolic Desire: Shakespeare's
Lucrece," in Contending Kingdoms: Historical,
Psychological, and Feminist Approaches to the Literature of
Sixteenth-Century England and France, ed. Rudnytsky and
Rose (Wayne State UP, 1991), pp. 202-24. Reprinted in Shakespearean
Criticism, vol. 33 (Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1997),
pp. 179-90.
Article on "Psychoanalytic
Theory and Criticism: Traditional Freudian Criticism,"
for The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism,
ed. Groden and Kreiswirth (Johns Hopkins UP: Baltimore, 1993),
pp. 595-98.
"Pushing the Envelope: Supersonic
Criticism," in Shakespeare Reread: The Texts in New
Contexts, ed. McDonald (Cornell UP: Ithaca, 1994), pp.
170-90.

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"SCRABBLIT:
Playing SCRABBLE with My Mother," in
Psychoanalyses, Feminisms, ed. Rudnytsky and Gordon
(SUNY Press: Albany, 1999). Also
published online in PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological
Study of the Arts (1999).
"Constructing Caesar: A
Psychoanalytic Reading," in Julius Caesar:
New Critical Essays, ed. Zander (Routledge: New York,
2004)

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"'Like two skins, one inside
the other': Dual Unity in Brokeback Mountain,"
in PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study
of the Arts (2008)
Work in Progress:
Mockingbirds, Sharks, Doves, and
Dinosaurs: American Best-Sellers 1950-2000
Full curriculum vitae available
on request.
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Dr. David Willbern
Department of English
SUNY Buffalo NY 14260
phone: office
716.645.2575
home 505.771.0251
e-mail: willbern@buffalo.edu
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NOTE:
In May 2006 I retired to New Mexico.
Home phone & email contacts remain valid. |
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