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CURRICULUM VITAE (short form)

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"

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.

Dr. David Willbern
Department of English
SUNY Buffalo NY 14260
phone: office 716.645.2575
           home 505.771.0251 
e-mail: willbern@buffalo.edu

NOTE:
In May 2006 I retired to New Mexico.
Home phone & email contacts remain valid.