CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Clifford Darrow Stetner

150 West 96th Street (9F)

New York, N. Y. 10025

(212) 678-8777

cstetner@phoenixandturtle.net

http://phoenixandturtle.net

 

EDUCATION

 

City University of New York Ph.D. 2008 English

Dissertation Title:

“Shakespeare’s ‘Shrieking Harbinger’: Seasonal Pattern, Genre, and Shapes of Time in The Phoenix and the Turtle and the First Folio.”

Advisors: Mario Digangi, Jaqueline DiSalvo, Steven Kruger—English Dep’t.

CUNY Graduate Certificate Renaissance Studies 2008

CUNY M.Phil. 2001 English

Queens College MA 1999 English

Brooklyn College BA 1996 English/Secondary Ed

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

“Colonizing Ireland in the Hybrid Performance/Text of Shakespeare’s Henry V.” LATCH 2 (2009) 17-53.

“The Tapster’s Tale of Mardux and the Snake.” Spenser Review 35.2 (Summer 2004) 2-4 (poem).

Major contributor to Unconfirmed Sources: Best of 2004. Cafe Press, 2005 (political satire).

 

HONORS

 

Renaissance Society of America Graduate Essay Prize 2008.

Spenser Review book prize 2004.

Goodman Shakespeare Scholarship at University College of London 1996.

Hecht Poetry Explication Award 1996.

Coleman Literary Criticism Award 1996.

Hintz Philosophy Essay Prize 1996.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

 

2008

“Colonizing Ireland in the Hybrid Performance / Text of Shakespeare’s Henry V

Performing Congquest, Colonization, and Resistance in the European Middle Ages.

MLA Convention

 

“Ritual Death and Resurrection in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy.”

CUNY Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group Conference

 

“‘More than one, and yet not many’: Hybridity and Satire in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.” CUNY English Graduate Conference.

 

2004

“Shakespeare’s Shrieking Harbinger: Genre and History in The Phoenix and Turtle.” WVSARA Huntington WV.

 

2003

Chaired CUNY Graduate Conference: “Writing at War”

Paper: “Williams’ Glove: Henry V’s Challenge to Imperialism”

 

1999

“Lions, Wolves and Bears, Oh My: The Rhetoric of Torture in Nietzsche’s Genealogy and Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale.” CUNY Graduate Conference

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Jan 1999 - 2003 CW Post College, Brookville, LI

Taught two to four sections per semester English I and II

Taught course in World Literature

Taught courses in Study Strategies

Hutton House Lecture Series: Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Hutton House Lecture Series: Cult of Elizabeth

Sep 2001 - Jan 2002 Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY

Taught Shakespeare Survey course

Jan 1997 - May 1999 York College, Jamaica, NY

Graduate Teaching Fellowship: two sections Academic Computing per semester

Sep 1996 - Jan 1997 LaGuardia Community College, Queens, NY

Taught English I

Sep 1996 - May 1999 CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

Ran workshop for ESL Graduate students in writing techniques

“E-tutor” assisting CUNY professors with student essays

Scribe for deaf student

Reader/Scribe for blind student

Sep 1995 - Sep 1996 Midwood High School, Brooklyn, NY

Student Teacher: Ninth Grade English class

1995 University Settlement

ESL tutor for high school students

1992 - 1993 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn NY

Tutor: Writing Center

Tutor: Core Classics