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Professional SummaryFebruary 2004
DAVID HALEY
324 Prospect Avenue S.Department of English
Minneapolis, MN 55419University of Minnesota
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Citizenship
Born at Berkeley, California. Married; three children.
Education
Harvard, A.B., Ph.D. Dissertation: “Elizabethan Drama on the Restoration Stage” (supervised by Alfred Harbage and Herschel Baker)
Teaching Appointments
Harvard University, Teaching Fellow
University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor
Publications: Books
Shakespeare’s Courtly Mirror: Reflexivity and Prudence in All’s Well That Ends Well. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1993 (314 pp.)
“An original and impressive study of All’s Well That Ends Well. Haley’s interpretation of the text is always perceptive and frequently brilliant. He has illuminated the play more brightly than any of his predecessors.”—Joseph Price
“Shakespeare’s Courtly Mirror has a character of real individuality, at once powerful and delicate. Fine and original readings are struck out, again and again, merely in the process of argument, without pretension or noise.”—Barbara Everett
“Probably the most probing, detailed, and subtle examination yet to appear of a play that nearly everyone regards as one of Shakespeare’s most challenging dramas. Moreover, Haley’s work is of a kind that possesses an ongoing applicability. I learned from his book.”—Charles Forker
“Whenever Haley investigates a subject, he discovers something new about it. For instance, the subject of alchemy, obscure and notoriously difficult, is here lucidly expounded and shown (convincingly, to my surprise) to be highly relevant to the play’s otherwise very unscientific because courtly concerns.”—Emrys Jones
“An in-depth and lucid reading of All’s Well. The book is not only an interesting discussion of the specific play, it contributes to the general area of Renaissance studies.”—Helen Bonavita
“This is scholarship of the highest caliber.”—David Bevington
Dryden and the Problem of Freedom: The Republican Aftermath, 1649–1680. YaleUniversity Press, 1997 (300 pp. Nominated for the Gottschalk Prize, American Society for 18th Century Studies)
“Opens the way for a large variety of future new readings of Dryden’s major works.”—Sanford Budick
“Accurately described as a ‘revisionary’ study, this important book defamiliarizes our sense of Dryden and his major poems, serious plays, satires, and critical prose.”—Choice
“A brilliant formulation of seeing the Dryden of 1688–1700 as a poet whose conversion to Catholicism unleashed the old anti-monarchical Puritanism of his youth.”—Maximillian Novak
“An important and unusually sophisticated contribution to our view of Dryden.”—Richard Kroll
“In the great tradition of modern Dryden scholar-critics from Earl Miner and Phillip Harth.”—SEL
“Haley’s energy, intelligence, and historical knowledge produce a number of readings that I found provocative —e.g., as to the train of alchemical imagery in Annus Mirabilis.”—Eric Rothstein
“His sure knowledge of the period allows Haley to set forth the diverse cultural contexts—intellectual, literary, political, or religious—in which Dryden lived, to ascertain more precisely his views, and to chart the development of his career that took a decisive turn after the Rose-Alley beating.”—Etudes Anglaises
“Haley’s study is to be commended for making us look afresh at Dryden, and most readers will come away from his book with some perceptions sharpened and profitably changed.”—Derek Hughes
Collection (contributing editor)
A Certain Text: Close Readings and Textual Studies in Shakespeare and Others. With editors Linda Anderson and Janis Lull. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002 (205 pp.)
Essays, Reviews, and Dictionary Articles
“Gothic Armaments and King Hamlet’s Poleaxe,” Shakespeare Quarterly 29 (1978):407–13.
“Blank Verse.” Article in the Dictionnaire International des Termes Littéraires (Berne: Editions Francke,
1980–), 178–84.
“Wit.” Article in the Dictionnaire International des Termes Littéraires (Berne: Editions Francke, 1980–;
forthcoming in alphabetical order).
“Hayden White’s Assault on Historicism,” The Paradigm Exchange II (Minneapolis: CLA, University of
Minnesota, 1985), 139–45.
“John Dryden: Protestant in Masquerade?” Cithara 30 (1991):10–17.
Review of Phillip Harth, Pen for a Party: Dryden’s Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts. In Journal of English
and Germanic Philology 94 (1995):127–30.
“Shakespeare’s Bertram, Ahab, and Naboth’s Vineyard,” English Language Notes 33 (1995):8–22.
“The Establishment of the Commonwealth of England, 1648–1649,” in Chronology of European History
(Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1997), 645–47.
“The Navigation Act and the Outbreak of the Dutch Wars,” in Chronology of European History (Pasadena:
Salem Press, 1997), 650–52.
“The Establishment of the Angevin Empire, 1154–1204,” in Chronology of European History (Pasadena:
Salem Press, 1998), 317–19.
“The Battle of Bouvines,” in Chronology of European History (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1998), 343–45.
“Marguerite of Navarre,” in Major Figures in European History (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1999), 467–70.
Review of Howard Erskine-Hill, Poetry of Opposition and Revolution; and of Alexander Pettit, Illusory
Consensus. In Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98 (1999): 111–16.
Review of Chernaik, Warren, ed., Marvell and Liberty, Albion 32 (2000):640–42.
Review of Paul Hammond, Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome, Journal of English and Germanic
Philology 100 (2001):449–52.
“‘The Cause of This Defect’: The Dram of Eale,” in A Certain Text (above), 29–49
“Was Dryden a ‘Cryptopapist’ in 1681?” Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 32 (2003):277–96
“Forum” reply to Edward Saslow, Restoration 27 (2003):51–53
“Dryden’s Emergence as Political Satirist,” in Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden. Ed. Jayne Lewis and Maximillian Novak (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming)
“John Dryden.” Article in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism (2nd ed., forthcoming)
Conferences and Papers
“The Melancholy of Influence,” MMLA, Minneapolis, November 1978
“The Assault on Historicism,” keynote address, CLA Colloquium on The Historical Dimension, Feb. 1984
“Dryden and the Republicans,” Conference on The Arts and Public Policy, Orlando, FL, March 1991
“Shakespearean Parody in Suckling’s Brennoralt,” Ohio Shakespeare Conference, Bowling Green, Mar 1992
“Shakespeare’s Helena as Paracelsian Healer,” Shakespeare Association, Kansas City, April 1992
“A Poem Should Not Be, But Mean: Theory in the Shakespeare Classroom,” MMLA, St. Louis, Nov. 1992
“Dryden, History, and Literature,” McKnight Summer Fellow lecture, Minneapolis, December 1992
“’Tis After God’s Own Heart to Cheat his Heir,” Second Biennial Conference on The Arts and Public Policy,
Orlando, FL, March 1993
“Justifying Their Wrongs: Judicial Combats in Spenser and Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Association, Atlanta,
April 1993
“The Perverse Hero of All’s Well That Ends Well,” Project Shakespeare lecture sponsored by Bush
Foundation, April 1993
“Shakespeare and Posthistoricism,” MMLA, Minneapolis, November 1993
“Killing the King: Moretti, Shakespeare, and Machiavelli,” Shakespeare Association, Albuquerque, Apr 1994
“Shakespeare and Revolution,” McKnight Summer Fellow lecture, Minneapolis, March 1995
“Shakespeare’s Recyclings from Edward III,” Shakespeare Association, Chicago, March 1995
“Who Really Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?” Lecture, University of California at Davis, April 1995
“Masterless Men and Women,” ASECS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, April 1996
“Silencing the Heroine: Eighteenth-Century Patriarchy and the Daughters of Eve,” Lecture, University of
California at Davis, October 1996
“Shakespeare’s Protestant Ecclesiology,” Shakespeare Association, Washington, D.C., March 1997
“Dryden’s Pope-Burning,” ASECS Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, April 1997
“The Daughters of Eve and the Public Sphere,” McKnight Summer Fellow lecture, Minneapolis, Feb. 1998
“Sonnet 146 and the Dark Lady,” Shakespeare Association, Cleveland, March 1998
“Dryden, Montesquieu, Hegel, and the Judicial Duel,” ASECS Annual Meeting, Notre Dame, IN, April 1998
“The Restoration: A Tory Myth?” ASECS Annual Meeting, Notre Dame, IN, April 1998
“Dryden and the Civilizing Process,” ASECS Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, March 1999
“The Rise of Tory Ideology,” ASECS Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, March 1999
“Bifold Authority in Troilus and Cressida,” Shakespeare Association, San Francisco, April 1999
“Dryden Tercentenary: His Audiences,” ASECS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2000
“Dryden as ‘Cryptopapist’ in 1680,” ASECS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2000
“Dryden’s Emergence as Political Satirist,” Dryden Tercentenary, Clark Library, Los Angeles, October 2000
“Dryden’s Moral Imagination,” ASECS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 2001
“Nudity and Civility,” History of Manners Roundtable, ASECS Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, April 2002
“Manners Dramatized: Courtship and Marriage after the Restoration,” DeBartolo Conference, Tampa, February 2003
Awards, Fellowships and Leaves
Harvard National Scholarship, 1954–1960
Detur Prize (1956) and Phi Beta Kappa (1958), Harvard College
Dexter Travel Fellowship, Harvard University, 1962 ($2500)
Graduate School Research Grant, University of Minnesota, spring 1967 ($700)
Sabbaticals, 1970–71, 1978–79, 1985–86, 1995–96
Single Quarter Leaves, 1970, 1976, 1991
Single Semester Leave, 2000
McKnight Summer Fellowships, summers of 1992 ($4600); 1994 ($4800); 1997 ($5000); 2001 ($5500)
Membership in Professional Societies
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
Midwest MLA
Modern Language Association
Shakespeare Association of America
Undergraduate Courses Taught at University of Minnesota
1-level. Besides teaching Composition and Humanities, I’ve taught every one of the surveys of English Literature offered by the department since 1965, including several “period” surveys ranging from Medieval to Modern.
3-level. In addition to the “period” courses, I’ve offered many different “topics” courses, including undergraduate (Junior/Senior) seminars. In recent years, I’ve concentrated particularly on courses in the Bible and in Shakespeare.
5-level. My specialized 5-level offerings have included courses in every major author from 1500 to 1800, and in every genre except the novel.
8-level. Besides seminars in the major sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors, I’ve taught seminars in the drama from 1500 to 1800, proseminars in the same period, and seminars in religion, politics, and women historians. In 1999, my seminar in “Shakespeare and the Reformation” inaugurated a new series entitled History, Politics, and Literature.
List of Courses Taught at University of Minnesota, 1964–2000
Composition 1001/2:Introductory Composition
English 101x: Introductions to all periods Medieval through Victorian
English 1017:Introduction to Modern Poetry
English 1018: Introduction to Modern Fiction
English 1019: Introduction to Modern Drama
English 1181: Introduction to Shakespeare
Humanities 1001: Humanities in the Modern World
Humanities 3013: Renaissance Heritage (four different courses, 197679)
CLA 1903:FRESHMAN SEMINAR (“How To Read Shakespeare”)
English 21-22-23: Surveys of English Literature (Beowulf to T.S. Eliot)
English 3007:Shakespeare (new semester course)
English 3111:New survey (1994) of English Literature through the Renaissance
English 3112:New survey (1997; 1998) of Engl. Lit., Milton through 18th c.
English 3116: The Renaissance
English 3117: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century
English 3118: The Romantic Age
English 3119: The Victorian Age
English 3238: England and the European Renaissance (topic, contents varied)
English 3241: Shakespeare: Early and Middle Plays
English 3242: Shakespeare: Tragedies and Late Plays
English 324x: Honors course(s) in Shakespeare
English 3247:Poetry of Edmund Spenser
English 3251: The Literature of the King James Bible: The Jewish Bible
English 3252:Literature of the K. James Bible: Prophets and New Testament
English 3960: Literature of Power (Ortega, Whitehead, Cassirer, Berdyaev)
English 3960: Shakespeare’s Sonnets (usually as honors course)
English 3960: Comedy Classics
English 3960: Styles of Life in English Literature, 1600–1900 (London Extension)
English 3960: Dryden’s and Marvell’s Discovery of Time
English 3960: Honors course on The Faerie Queene
English 3960:Shakespeare’s History Plays (honors course)
English 5131: Survey of Renaissance Poetry (poetry survey sequence)
English 5132: Survey of Restoration & 18th-Century Poetry (survey sequence)
English 5171: English Drama to the Time of Shakespeare
English 5172: Jacobean and Caroline Drama
English 5173: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
English 5230: Humanism in the Early Period (Erasmus, More, Wyatt, Elyot)
English 5230: Structures of Persuasion (Sidney and Renaissance rhetoric)
English 5240: Advanced Shakespeare
English 5247: Spenser’s Faerie Queene
English 5255: SeventeenthCentury Survey, Part I (poetry and prose to 1633)
English 5256: SeventeenthCentury Survey, Part II (poetry and prose to 1660)
English 5261: Milton
English 5280: Dryden and His Age
English 5894: SixteenthCentury Survey: Early Tudor Literature
English 5895: SixteenthCentury Survey: Spenser and Sidney
English 5896: SixteenthCentury Survey: Elizabethan Literature
English 5910: The Italian Epic in England (Ariosto, Sidney, Spenser)
English 5960: Problems in the Criticism of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Seminar (8xxx): Sidney
Seminar (8xxx): Spenser
Seminar (8xxx): Shakespeare
Seminar (8xxx): Milton
Seminar (8xxx): Dryden
Seminar (8xxx): Marvell, Dryden, and Milton
Seminar (8xxx):Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
Seminar (8xxx):Religion and Literature in the 16th Century
Seminar (8xxx):Politics and Literature in the 17th Century
Seminar (8xxx):Women, Politics and History in the 18th Century
Proseminar (8xxx): The Sixteenth century
Proseminar (8xxx): The Seventeenth century
Proseminar (8xxx): The Eighteenth century
Graduate Dissertations Supervised
I’ve served as chief supervisor for eight completed Ph.D. dissertations and two M.A.s:
1968: Judith Sloman, “The Structure of Dryden’s Fables”
1973: Lyle Smith, “The Elizabethan English Debate Dialogue: Puritan Satire in the Anti-Clerical Tradition”
1975: Edgar Harvey, “Pageants of Virtue: Moral Allegory in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Ben Jonson’s Masques”
1976: Rudolph Almasy, “Richard Hooker’s Polemics and Elizabethan Apologetic”
1978: Frank McCormick, “The Embattled Career of Sir John Vanbrugh”
1978: Janice Rossen (MA thesis and exam, COMP LIT)
1981: Gottfried Prosske (MA thesis and exam, COMP LIT)
1984: Jeffrey Fruen, “Veiled in Shadows’ Light: Gloriana as the Focus of The Faerie Queene”
1989: Jon Orten, “Elizabethan Puritanism and the Plain Style”
1997: William West, “Marlovian Rhetoric: Neoclassic Aspiration as Discursive Determinism”
Adviser and Reader, Ph.D. Dissertations
I’ve served as reader (or, in seven or eight cases, as second supervisor) of twenty-six completed dissertations:
1968: Richard Donovan, “Shakespeare and the Game of Evil” (chief supervisor: Hurrell)
1969: David Morris, “The Religious Sublime” (Monk)
1969: John Mulryan, “Natalis Comes’ Mythologiae” (Unger)
1970: Joyce Povlacs, “Actor as Character and Structure in the Plays of John Marston” (O’Brien)
1970: Robert Wickenheiser, “Poetae Responsoriae: A Study of George Herbert’s Latin Poems and Their Relationship to His English Poems” (Unger)
1971: Hubert Howard, “Campion: ‘A Man of Faire Parts’” (Moore)
1972: John O’Neill, “An Art Beyond the Reach of Grace: English Pornographic Verse, 1666–1685” (Moore)
1972: Barbara Mattson, “A Study of Robert Herrick’s Hesperides” (O’Brien)
1973: J. Donald Flanagan, “The Satirist Intriguer in Elizabethan Comedy” (Clayton)
1973: Kristin Pedersen [Warner], “Thomas Otway’s Strumpet Fortune” (Moore)
1974: Sharon Thompson, “A Comparison of Shakespeare’s Sonnets with Donne’s Songs and Sonnets” (O’Brien)
1975: Rita Lagace [George], “Microcosmic Adam: Background Studies of a Renaissance Type” (O’Brien)
1975: Karen Schermerhorn, “Women in Wycherley” (Moore)
1976: Alan Powers, “‘This Critical Age’: Deliberate Departures from Literary Conventions in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry” (Clayton)
1976: Russell Meyer, “Renaissance Laughter: A Preliminary Investigation Toward a Theory of Humor” (O’Brien)
1977: Del Adamson, “Shakespeare’s Drama of Calumny” (O’Brien)
1978: Mark Muggli, “The Tragedies of Philip Massinger and Their Dramaturgical Context” (Clayton)
1980: Betty Spitzmiller, “Ben Jonson’s Nondramatic Poetry” (Clayton)
1981: Tim Blackburn, “Thomas Carew and the Occasional Mode” (Clayton)
1982: Michael Levy, “The Transformations of Oberon: The Use of Faeries in Seventeenth-Century Poetry” (Clayton)
1985: Mick Cochrane, “Roger North’s Lives of the Norths” (Moore)
1985: Jongsook Lee, “Ben Jonson’s Poesis: A Literary Dialectic of Ideal and History” (Clayton)
1986: Gayle Gaskill, “The Templeand the Liturgy: A Study of George Herbert’s Use of Phrases and Images from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer” (Clayton)
1988: Duane Smith, “The Programmatic Convention of Roman Satire” (Sonkowsky)
1993: Maggie Kramm, “Shakespeare’s Romance of the Rose: All’s Well That Ends Well and the Morality Tradition” (Clayton)
1996: Joyce Sutphen, “Renaissance Drama and the Arts of Memory” (Clayton)
Graduate Examining Committees (Ph.D. prelims; non-reader, Ph.D. soutenance; M.A. exam)
1968: Charles McCabe (soutenance)1968: Peter Connelly (soutenance)
1969: Dennis Lape (prelims)
1969: Sheila Murphy (prelims)
1969: Harry Weber (soutenance)
1969: Jon Sitter (soutenance)
1970: John Pfordresher (soutenance)
1970: Jean Ervin (soutenance)
1970: Peter Schneeman (prelims)
1970: John Viggiano (prel; PHILOSOPHY)
1971: Peter Christensen (prelims)
1971: Peter Connolly (soutenance)
1972: Gary J. Cooper (prelims; LIBRARY SCIENCE)
1972: Robert Foy (soutenance)
1973: John Skonnord (M.A.; COMP LIT)
1973: Elizabeth Stewart (prelims)
1974: Carol Irish (soutenance)
1975: Charles Bergman (prelims)
1975: Paul Horning (soutenance)
1976: Arthur Walzer (soutenance)
1976: David Farkas (soutenance)
1977: Anders Christensen (prelims)
1978: Janice Rossen (prelims)
1978: J. Sinopoli (M.A.; CLASSICS) / 1979: R. Van Horn (prelims)
1980: G. Miller (prelims; COMP LIT)
1981: Steve Nimis (soutenance; COMP LIT)
1981: John Sullivan (soutenance)
1984: Linda Anderson (soutenance)
1988: Sally Harris (soutenance)
1989: Maggie Kramm (prelims)
1990: D. Gunnarson (M.A.; MUSIC)
1991: Joyce Sutphen (prelims)
1991: William West (prelims)
1992: Helen Ailing (prelims)
1993: Maggie Kramm (soutenance)
1994: William Young (prelims)
1996: Joseph Green (prelims)
1996: Glen Bowman (prelims) HISTORY
1996: Joyce Sutphen (soutenance)
1997: William West (soutenance)
1998: Alison Kadlec (prelims; POLITICAL SCI)
1999: Alison Kadlec (dissertation prelims)
2000: Tiffany Joseph (M.A.; AMERICAN LIT)
2000: Barbara Schulman (prelims) HISTORY
2001: Laura Bozeman (prelims)
2003: Lemiya Almas (prelims)
Graduate Independent Study and Plan B Papers
My work with graduate students (Plan B papers, independent study courses) has averaged three projects a year.
Undergraduate Independent Study (English 3970/5970)
Since 1964, I’ve supervised more than one hundred undergraduate students who either wrote their honors theses or took independent reading courses with me. Each of these projects involved meetings with students for at least five hours a quarter and sometimes as much as fifteen; and all produced a substantial paper (12–20 pages).
Professional Services to the University of Minnesota
English Department Committees:
Curriculum Committee, 1966–67 (original committee), 1968–69, 1973–74, 1980–81.
M.A. Exam Committee, 1966, 1968–69, 1973, 1980, 1991–92
Recruitment Committee, 1970–71.
Ph.D. Exam Committee, 1970–71, 1976, 1984–85.
Library Committee, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76.
Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1972–73, 1975–76.
Department Council, 1975–76, 1981–82.
Grievance Committee, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1987–88 (chair), 1989–90.
Committee for the Geisler Prize, 1981, 1983, 1984.
Eighteenth-century search committee, 1984–85.
Graduate Admissions Committee, 1972–73, 1988–89, 1993–95.
Scholarships Committees, 1966–67, 1974–75, 1981–82, 1986–87, 1990–92.
Graduate Advisory Committee, 1992–95, 2000–03
Faculty Affairs Advisory Committee, 1995–98.
Undergraduate Advisory Committee, 1998–2000.
Ad Hoc Committee for Revising the Ph.D. Prelims, 2000–01.
Other CLA Committees:
Classics, Search Committee, 1978–79.
Comparative Literature, Search Committee, 1978–79.
Other Local Service Activities (Minnesota)
1965:Discussion of The Way of the World, Guthrie Theatre, March.
Contributed essay, “Congreve and the Artificial Comedy,” to the Guthrie Theatre Magazine
“Modern Poetry,” ten-week lecture course taught on KTCATV, fall quarter.
Course syllabus, “Modern Poetry” (34 pp.) for KTCA-TV course.
1967:Course syllabus, “Survey of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature,” for Department of Independent Study, 1967 (215 pp.; co-author Leyasmeyer).
1975:“Departmental Notes” (Department newsletter).
1977:Literature in London, three classes taught in London, spring quarter (Extension).
1978:Lecture on “John Dryden’s Puritan Legacy,” Rose and Thistle Society, Departments of History and English, February.
Essay on the Core Curriculum, Minnesota Daily, 7 March (opinion page).