Mary Thomas Crane

Department of English

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, MA 02167

mary.crane@bc.edu

Home: (617) 547-4247; Office (617) 552-3735

Born: November 26, 1956 in Fredericksburg, VA.

English Renaissance (1500-1660): intellectual and cultural history, Shakespeare, drama, lyric poetry, cognitive theory.

Professor, Boston College, Department of English, 2001

Director, English PhD Program, Boston College, 1996-2000

Associate Professor, Boston College, Department of English, 1992-present

Assistant Professor, Boston College, Department of English, 1986-1992

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Department of English, 1982-86

Assistant Senior Tutor, Kirkland House, 1983-86

Resident Tutor, Harvard University, Kirkland House, 1982-86

1986--Ph.D., Harvard University (English)

1982--A.M., Harvard University (English)

1980--Read English for one year at St. Anne's College, Oxford

1979--A.B., Radcliffe College (Classics and English)

1993--Boston College 80% sabbatical

1988--Boston College Distinguished Junior Faculty Research Award

1984--Harvard-Danforth Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

1983--Harvard GSAS Merit Fellowship

1982--Harvard Commencement Marshall

1980--College Scholarship, St. Anne's College, Oxford

1979--Magna cum Laude (with highest honors in Classics)

1979--LeBaron Russell Briggs Literary Fellowship

1979--Louis Curtis Prize for Excellence in Latin

1978--Phi Beta Kappa

At Boston College: Undergraduate: Critical Reading and Writing; Core Seminar; Studies in Poetry; Practice of Criticism; Introduction to British Literature and Culture I; Literary History I: Chaucer to Spenser; Literary History II: Donne to Dryden; Spenser; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Shakespeare: Early Plays; Shakespeare: Later Plays; Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Poetry; Gender Issues in Shakespeare (Undergraduate Seminar)

Graduate: Critical Approaches to Shakespeare; Early Shakespeare; Sixteenth-Century British Writers; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Ph.D. Seminars: Shakespeare's Plays; Shakespearean Appropriations.

Council on Graduate and Professional Student Life, 1998-00

University Research Council, 1997-2000

Research Incentive and Expense Grant Committees, 1997-2000

(REG Committee Chair, 1999-2000)

McCarthy Prize Committee (Scholar of the College Prize),98-00

English Department Planning and Executive Committee, 1996-00

Appointments Subcommittee, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998

Ad Hoc Committee to revise the graduate programs, 1993-94

Ad Hoc Committee to respond to external review, 1993

University Honors Committee, 1990-1993

English Advisory Committee, 1991-1993

English Undergraduate EPC, 1990-1993

English Honors Council, 1987-1993

English Core EPC, 1986-88

"What was Performance in Early Modern England?", Renaissance Society of America, April, 2001.

"Hamlet, Timothy Bright, and the Action of the Passions,"Neurosciences and Psychiatry Congress of History, ZurichAnd Lausanne, September, 1999.

"Sound and Space in The Tempest," Harvard Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, April 1999.

"Cognitive Literary Theory: An Introduction," with Alan Richardson, Boston College English Graduate Colloquium, March, 1999.

"Cognitive Hamlet and the Sources of Action," MLA, December, 1998.

"Is Caliban Irish?" Symposium on the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, Boston College, September, 1998.

"Landscape and Knowledge in The Tempest,"Shakespeare Association of America Seminar, March, 1998.

"'Players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds':

Conflicting Identities of Early Modern English Women," Renaissance Society of America, April, 1997

"Male Pregnancy and Cognitive Permeability in Measure for Measure," University of Notre Dame, March 1997; Rutgers University, April 1998.

"Shakespeare's Brain: Embodying the Author-function,"Shakespeare Association of America Seminar, March, 1997.

"'Therefore, You Clown, Abandon': Theatrical Practice and the Ideologies of Status in As You Like It," Renaissance Society of America, April, 1996.

"Keywords, Semantic Change, and Ideology," MLA, December, 1994.

"There's No Place Like Home: Locating the Domestic on the Elizabethan Stage," Boston College English Ph.D.Colloquium, November, 1992; Shakespeare Association of America Seminar, March, 1995.

"The Tenure Clock Versus the Biological Clock," MLA,December, 1991.

"Dismemberment in Elizabeth Cary's Mariam," Conference on Attending to Women in Early Modern England, University of Maryland, November, 1990.

"The Grammarian's War, 1519-1520: Humanist Ideology, Social Class, and the Disciplined Subject," Tulsa Renaissance Symposium, May, 1990.

"Forms of Rejection and the Rejection of Forms," MLA, December 1989.

"New Approaches to Teaching the Renaissance: Theory in Practice," MLA, December 1988(organizer and co-chair of session).

"The Speeches of Elizabeth I," Colloquium on Women in theRenaissance and Reformation, Harvard Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, November 1988.

"Copia and the Commonplace Book in Sixteenth-Century England," Pomona College, October, 1987; Boston College English Ph.D. Colloquium, May 1988.

"'The Scar Shall Still Remain': Sayings, Self, and Society in Wyatt’s Poems," MLA, December 1987.

"Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of Counsel," NEMLA, April 1987.

"Copia, Closure, and Self-Fashioning in Sixteenth-Century England," Renaissance Society of America, March 1987.

Books:

Shakespeare’s Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).

Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).

Ed., with Amy Boesky, Form and Reform in Renaissance England:Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000).

Articles:

"What Was Performance?". Criticism (2001).

"Early Tudor Humanism" in, A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, Michael Hattaway, ed.(Oxford: Blackwell,2000): 13-26.

"Conflicting Identities of Early Modern English Women," forthcoming in Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period, ed. Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavneh,(Aldershot, U.K. and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000): 212-223.

(With Alan Richardson), "Toward a New Interdisciplinarity: Literary Studies and Cognitive Science," Mosaic 32 (1999): 123-40.

"Male Pregnancy and Cognitive Permeability in Measure for Measure," Shakespeare Quarterly 49 (1998):269-92.

"Linguistic Change, Theatrical Practice, and the Ideologies of Status in As You Like It," English Literary Renaissance 27 (1997): 361-92.

"Herrick's Cultural Materialism," George Herbert Journal 14 (1990-91): 21-50.

"'His Owne Style': Voice and Writing in Jonson's Poems," Criticism 32 (1990): 31-50.

"Video et Taceo: Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of Counsel," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 28 (1988): 1-15.

"Intret Cato: Authority and the Epigram in Sixteenth-Century England," Harvard English Studies XIV (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986): 158-186.

"The Shakespearean Tetralogy," Shakespeare Quarterly 36 (1985):282-299.

Other Publications:

Essay-Reviews: "Women and the Early Modern Canon: Editions of Works by English Women, 1500-1660," Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 171-86;"Milton's Gaze," on Joseph Wittreich's Feminist Milton, Review 11 (1989): 87-98.

Reviews (of Ann Coiro's Robert Herrick's Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition,; Robert Wiltenburg's Ben Jonson and Self-Love, Peggy Knapp’s Time Bound Words; Mary Hazard’s Elizabethan Silent Language; Michael Schoenfeldt’s Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England) in Renaissance Quarterly; (of Patricia Fumerton's Cultural Aesthetics, Douglas Bruster’s Quoting Shakespeare) in JEGP; (of Kenneth Graham’s The Performance of Conviction) in MaRDiE, (of Rosemary Kegl’s The Rhetoric of Concealment, Katherine Rowe’s Dead Hands) in Modern Philology; (of Carla Mazzio and David Hillman's The Body in Parts) in Shakespeare Quarterly; (of Jonathan Gil Harris’ Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic) in Albion.

"Elizabeth I," in The Dictionary of Literary Biography

"Epigrams" (pp. 236-37) and "Commonplace Books" (pp. 155-56) in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 2001)

Work in Progress: Paper on "Macbeth and binary logic" for conference proceedings,"The Work of Fiction," Lechter Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Member of Modern Language Association of America, Renaissance Society of America, Milton Society, Shakespeare Association, Spenser Society, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

Editorial Board, Language and Literature Series, Duquesne University Press. Co-Editor, Monograph Series, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity, Ashgate Press.

Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian.