SPP final category, to be added by me, as a separate cover letter with any supporting documents.
When I applied ofr an SPP in 2010, hteletter wrotean ehtusiastic letter of support recommending that I receive the SPP. I did not , however, receive an SPP. I am applying again, and this time I thought it would be helpful if I were to explain why I think my work is particularly distinguished.
1. Working from the margins of a given field, I redefine fields by creating new subfields. Shakespeare. I was hired because I had already begun work on film; and on race; since then, on childhood, on foreign Shakespeare(Asian); on German Shakespeare. 2 vol encyclopedia (widely reviewed) Work on censorship before I was hired. Expanded into new areas of history of the book and philosophy (rhizomes) and films in medieval and early modern. highly innovative work—that blazes new trails. Bring fields together ike historians as consultants on film ,new hisoticists, adnfilm theory, and Renasisance studies.
2. International range of my work and international recognition. I had already done a Fulbright in Berlin. Went back to Berlin in 2003; invited to British Museum; paper published and cited by the curator of the Bayeux Tapestry in Bayeux Fance.
3. Influence and recognition my Work within the fields
- calculated in terms of frequency of citations and
- invitations to review major books like Film and Art textbook; I am an authority on texts central to the field while redefining the field. Norton Shakespeare another example. Oxford Middleton as well.
Shakespeare Bulletin
Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2010
E-ISSN: 1931-1427 Print ISSN: 0748-2558
DOI: 10.1353/shb.2010.0031
Adele Lee
'Chop-Socky Shakespeare'?!: The Bard Onscreen in Hong Kong
Shakespeare Bulletin - Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2010, pp. 459-480
Volume 27, Number 2, Summer 2009
E-ISSN: 1931-1427 Print ISSN: 0748-2558
DOI: 10.1353/shb.0.0073
John Blakeley
Shakespearean Relocations: The Final Scene of John Madden's Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare Bulletin - Volume 27, Number 2, Summer 2009, pp. 249-259
richardthesecond: Adapting Shakespeare to the Local in a Culture of Global Celebrity
Robert Ormsby
Modern Drama, Volume 52, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 19-37
Ben Jonson book still being cited;
Censorship
Work still being cited
Internationally recognized
Number of fields to which I have contributed
As Faculty (Self)Development
Shakespeare and film
Poco / Glocal Shakespeare
Shakespeare the Movie II
Shakespeare and Race
ObaMacbeth
Shakespeare and Editing
Renaissance Drama and Film
Semenza and Pasacle
Film Adaptation
Editor of Adaptation
Becoming Jane
Blackwell Film Adaptation anthology on facsimiles. Print editions , and digital editions of films.
Writing and Film
Buchanan anthology
Secrecy and the Law
Amherst essay
Medieval and Early Modern media and film
Bayeux Tapestry (French and English)
Bayeux Tapestry NEH Exemplaria
British Musuem
Curatorof the museum—catalogue on film and BT.
Cinematic Paratext and narrative frame—articles cited before the book. Book already being cited.
Posthumous publication
Literary Theory, Philosophy, and Philology
Rhizomes monograph
Chaucer
Biopolitics and the Archive