Rebecca Steinberger
English Department
Misericordia University
301 Lake Street
Dallas, PA 18612-1098 USA
Office Tel.: (570) 674-6423; Facsimile: (570) 675-2441
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
Major: English Literature and Criticism
Specializations: Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Postcolonial and New Historicist
Theory, Twentieth-Century Irish Literature, and Gender Studies
Degree granted: December 2000
Dissertation: "Shakespearean Reinscriptions of National Identity in Twentieth-Century
Irish Drama"
M.A. University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
Major: English
Concentration: Medieval and Renaissance Drama and Irish Literature
Degree granted: May 1995
B.A. Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Major: English
Minor: Political Science
Degree granted: May 1992
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor, English Department, Misericordia University, Dallas, PA.
2010-present
Chair, English Department, Misericordia University, Dallas, PA. 2008-14.
Associate Professor, English Department, Misericordia University, Dallas, PA. 20062010
Assistant Professor, English Department, College Misericordia, Dallas, PA. 2000-06
Courses I have taught include ENG 101 Ancient and Medieval Literary Texts, ENG 207
British Literature, ENG 203 Advanced Expository Writing, ENG 102 Modern and Early
Modern Texts, ENG 109 Modern World Literature, ENG 185 Disabilities in Literature,
ENG 351 Restoration and 18th Century British Literature, ENG 353 20th Century British
Literature; ENG 415 Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama, ENG 316 Studies in
Shakespeare, ENG 341Imaginative Writing, ENG 415 Women Writers, ENG 415
Modern French Culture, ENG 350 Medieval and Renaissance Literature, ENG 420
Senior Seminar: Literary Theory and the Gothic Tradition, ENG 151 University Writing
Seminar: Literary London, ENG 220 Theatre in Performance, ENG 415 London Calling:
Cultural Conflict in the City (and interdisciplinary course and cross-listed with Nursing
480), ENG 415 Terrorism and Migration: The New Dystopia and directed studies on
Comparative Studies in Christopher Marlowe, Twentieth-Century British Women
Writers, Poetry Workshop, Contemporary British Novelists, the Existential Novel,
Anarchy in the UK, Honors Capstones and Cross-Cultural Avant-Garde/Surreal Novels.
HONORS/DISTINCTIONS
• Louis and Barbara Alesi Excellence in Scholarship Award, 21 May 2011
• National Honor Society of Sigma Tau Delta
• Who’s Who in America, 2007, 2009
• The Judge Max and Tillie Rosenn Excellence in Teaching Award, 20 May 2006
• Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2003-04, 2004-05
• Inducted into the National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Indiana University
Chapter; March 29, 1998
GRANTS
Misericordia Faculty Research Grants, 2007; 2008-09; 2012-13; 2013-14; 2014-15
Misericordia Faculty Development Summer Research Grants, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
Strategic Initiative Competitive Grants, Fall 2003; Spring 2006; Spring 2011
FELLOWSHIP
Willary Diversity Fellow, Selected by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Diversity Institute
Consortium, 2002-2003
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Conceptualizing Identity and Staging
Boundaries. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2008.
Editor
Encountering Ephemera 1500-1800: Scholarship, Performance, Classroom. Ed. Joshua
Fisher and Rebecca Steinberger. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press,
2013.
Cohen, Adam Max. Shakespeare and Wonder. London: Palgrave, 2011.
The Renaissance Literature Handbook, Continuum Press, January 2010.
Article in a Refereed Scholarly Journal
"'Something is being eroded': Colonial Domination and Deculturation in Brian Friel's
Translations and Shakespeare's Henriad." Núa: Studies in Contemporary Irish
Writing 4 (2003): 13-35.
Essays in a Collection
“God Save the King: Richard II in Wonder-land. Adam Max Cohen, Shakespeare and
Wonder. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 165-174.
“Maeve Binchy”. Irish Women Writers: An A-Z Guide. Ed. Alex Gonzalez. Greenwood
Press, 2006.
“Juanita Casey”. Irish Women Writers: An A-Z Guide. Ed. Alex Gonzalez. Greenwood
Press, 2006.
Encyclopedia Entry
“St. John Ervine”. The Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Ed. Kerry Moore. Columbia U
Press, 2007.
Book Reviews
“Review of M.G. Coghill’s Shades of Light”. Literary London Journal 11.2 (Autumn
2014): 96-97.
“J. Dillon Brown’s Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel”.
Literary London Journal 11.1 (Spring 2014): 87-90.
“Mary Trotter’s Modern Irish Theatre”. Irish Studies Review 18.3 (2011): 386.
“J. Dillon Brown’s Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel”.
PRESENTATIONS AT SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES
“Anarchy in the UK: Urban Angst and the London Riots 2011”, Literary London
Conference, London, UK (July 19, 2013)
“Tracing Students’ Traces: Self-Awareness in the Literature Classroom”, Group for Early
Modern Cultural Studies Annual Conference, Dallas, TX (October 24, 2009)
“’Be bloody, bold, and resolute’: Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Terror”,
SCAENA Conference, East Anglia University, Cambridge, UK (July 17, 2008)
“’Bloody, Bold, and Resolute’: Martin McDonagh and the Politics of Violence”,
American Conference on Irish Studies (ACIS), New York, NY (April 20, 2007)
“Shakespeare and Terrorism: Strange Bedfellows?”, Group for Early Modern Cultural
Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (February 24, 2007)
“Brush up your Shakespeare: Adaptation versus Alteration in Charles Molloy’s The
Half-Pay Officers”, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Conference, San
Antonio, TX (December 2, 2005).
“Networking North and South: Collaborative Irish Studies Online”, American
Conference on Irish Studies (ACIS) Annual Meeting, South Bend, IN (April 14, 2005)
“Staging Economies: Consumerism in Seventeenth Century London”, Group for Early
Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Annual Conference, Orlando, FL (November 19,
2004).
“’You vile nation of Cut-purses all!’”: Teaching Identity in Early Modern Ballads”,
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Annual Conference, Orlando, FL
(November 20, 2004)
“M(O)therland: Gretta and National Identity in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’”, 2004
International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland (June 12-19, 2004)
“’Something wicked this way comes’: Conjuring the Supernatural in Performance on the
Early Modern Stage,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Annual
Conference, Newport Beach, CA (October 26, 2003)
“Urban Legends: Social Topography of Urban Space in Early Modern London,” Literary
London Conference, Goldsmiths College, University of London, England (July 25-27,
2003)
"'Call me a lusty, lazy, wanton coward: Constructing Identities in Thomas Goffe's The
Courageous Turk, or Amurath I," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS)
Tenth Annual Conference, Tampa, FL (November 15, 2002)
"'Something is being Eroded': Constructing Urban/Rural Space in Elizabethan Texts,"
Icons of Change: Word and Image in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Charleston, SC
(February 7, 2002)
"'How quickly doth that country alter men's natures': Deterritorializing Irish Space in
Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland," Group for Early Modern
Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Ninth Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA (November 16,
2001)
"Savage Seductions and Racial Rifts: East/West Binaries and Imperialist Ideology in E.
M. Forster's A Passage to India," College English Association (CEA) Conference,
Memphis, TN (April 5, 2001)
"(A)Sexual Transformations: Historical and Artistic Representations of England's Virgin
Queen," Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference,
Philadelphia, PA (April 12, 2001)
"'This is a woman's mind, and thus I think it best': Creating a Dominant Female Identity
in Anne Dowriche's The French History," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Eighth Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA (November 17, 2000)
"In the Name of the Mother: Matriarchal Domains in J. M. Synge's Riders to the Sea and
Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa," College English Association Conference,
Charleston, SC (April 6, 2000)
"'Woo her, wed her, and bed her': Feminism, Cinema, and The Shrew," Mid-Atlantic
American Culture / Popular Culture Association Conference, Valley Forge, PA
(November 5, 1999)
"'It is good and seemly to pass the time of our youth': Women's Recreation and Societal
Class Constructs in Late Medieval England," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Seventh Annual Conference, Coral Gables, FL (October 7, 1999)
"'Women and Children First!': A Materialist Feminist Critique of James Cameron's
TITANIC," Northeast Modern Language association (NEMLA) Annual Conference,
Pittsburgh, PA (April 16, 1999)
"Sexuality Expressed and Repressed: Lady Falkland's History of the Life, Reign and
Death of Edward II," College English Association / Pennsylvania College English
Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA (April 2, 1999)
"Assimilation and Colonization: Shakespeare's Henry V and National Identity," English
Graduate Organization Conference, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
(March 19, 1999)
"Teaching Translation Theory in Brian Friel's Translations," English Association of
Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) Conference, Indiana, PA (October 17, 1998)
"'For sum be lewed, And sum be shrewed': Archetypes of Women in Middle English
Ballads," Nineteenth Medieval Forum, Plymouth state University, Plymouth, NH (April
17, 1998)
"'A second fall of cursed man': England as 'this other Eden' in Shakespeare's Richard II,"
College English Association Conference, San Antonio, TX (April 2, 1998)
"'Truncated lives, creatures of the shadows': The Role of Women in William Trevor's
Fools of Fortune," English Graduate Organization Conference, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA (March 27, 1998)
"'Bloodshed is a cleansing and sanctifying thing': Religion and Ritual in Sean O'Casey's
The Plough and the Stars," Pennsylvania College English Association Conference,
DuBois, PA (March 20, 1998)
"Shakespeare's Brave New World," Mid-Atlantic American Culture/Popular Culture
Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA (November 2, 1996)
"A Bard for the 21st Century and Beyond," West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance
Association Conference, West Virginia Technical University, Montgomery, WV (April
19, 1996)
"Branagh's Claudio: A Push for Sympathy," Ohio Shakespeare Conference, Ohio
University, Athens, OH (May 10, 1995)
GUEST LECTURES
• “Brush Up Your Shakespeare”, Dedication of the Shakespeare Garden, Alumni
Reunion Weekend, Misericordia University (June 5, 2010)
• “Shakespeare’s Garden & the Classroom”, Alumni Reunion Weekend, Misericordia
University (May 30, 2009)
• “Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Terror”, Misericordia University (October
23, 2008)
• “Shakespeare and Terrorism”, College Misericordia (March 12, 2007)
• “Lost (and Found) in Translation: Shakespeare’s Border-Crossing”, College
Misericordia (April 6, 2006)
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“London Calling: Cultural Conflict in 17th Century Broadside Ballads”, College
Misericordia (March 3, 2005)
“Working Diversity into the Curriculum,” Diversity Luncheon Lecture Series,
College Misericordia (October 29, 2004)
“Hex and the City: Puritans, Plagues, and Print Culture 1590-1610,” College
Misericordia (April 15, 2004)
"Shakespeare's Rival Playwrights," The Annual Regina Kelley Shakespeare
Symposium, July 2003
“Scripting the Turk in Early Modern Drama,” College Misericordia. (March 19,
2003)
"Shakespeare's Gender-Benders," The Annual Regina Kelley Shakespeare
Symposium, July 2002
"Disseminating Identity: England's Sense of Self and the Irish Other, 1596-1612,"
College Misericordia (February 21, 2002)
"Gender in Literature," Dr. Marnie Hiester's Introduction to Gender class, College
Misericordia (November 17, 2011, October 31, 2005, December 6, 2004, December
1, 2003, November 8, 2002, November 4, 2001 and December 4, 2000)
"Spying the Globe," The Annual Regina Kelley Shakespeare Symposium, July 2001
"Historical and Sociological Aspects of Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September,"
Celtic Film Festival, Cinema Paradiso, Easton, PA (April 23, 2001)
"How do the Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass Relate to You?" Freshman
Orientation Sessions I and II, Wilkes University (June 19 and July 10, 2000)
"The Process of Discovery: Submitting, Researching, Writing, and Presenting a
Paper at a Scholarly Conference," Dr. Malcolm Hayward's Bibliographic Methods
course, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (October 27, 2997); Dr. Michael
Friedman's Introduction to Research course, University of Scranton (October 8, 1997
and October 23, 1996)
"Higher Education Made Accessible for Today's Adult Learner," Plymouth Kiwanis,
Plymouth, PA (June 25, 2997)
"Trends in Higher Education: Bridging the Gap Between Nontraditional Adult
Learners and Traditional Students in the '90s," Greater Pittston Kiwanis, West
Pittston, PA (March 4, 1997)
SEMINARS
• Presenter, “What is Gretta a Symbol of? Mother Ireland in James Joyce’s ‘The
Dead’”, UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies Summer Seminar Series,
Westminster University, London, England (June 14, 2006)
• Participant, "The Impact of the Ottoman Empire on Early Modern Europe from 1453
to the Death of Ahmed I," The Folger Institute, Washington, DC (March 8-9, 2002)
• Participant, "Re-Orienting the Renaissance: 'Race', Colonialism and Inter-Cultural
Contact in Early Modern English Theatre," featuring Ania Loomba, West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV (May 31-June 3, 2001)
THESES DIRECTED
Thomas Simko, “Decoding Vonnegut”, Spring 2007.
Suzanne Kazimi, “Why Can’t We Have Some Peace”, Spring 2006.
Karin Sopp, “The American Scream”, Fall 2005.
Denise Widner, “The Fragmented Self: Reclamation of Land, Body and Mind in Three
Arabic Novels”, Spring 2004
Richard Brown, “Measure for Measure: Unveiling the Reign of James I”, Fall 2003
Rianna Johns, “Love, Deception and Death in Shakespeare’s Hamlet”, Fall 2003
Christian Beck, "Questioning the Pious Priest: Representations of the Clergy in
Shakespeare's Plays", Fall 2002
L. Mark Matalavy, “Romantic Feminine Foursome”, Spring 2003
Jennifer Sency, “Blinding Our Youth: An Analysis on Censorship in Today’s Educational
Systems”, Spring 2003
Amber Marie Young, “Desires, Deference, and Deviance: We are Not Alone”, Spring
2003
Ellyn Ide, "Women in Eighteenth-Century Society and Literature", Spring 2002
Jack Dessoye, "AIDS Discourse in Modern American Drama, 1970-2001", Fall 2001
Lynn Marie Sabulski, "Sean O'Casey's Women", Fall 2001
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Chair, English Department, 2008-2014
• Member, Study Away Committee, appointed 2014
• Member, International Program Committee, 2011-14
• Strategic Plan Co-Manager, Communication and Management Theme, appointed
2010
• Organizer, Biennial Irish Film Festival, November 2011; November 2009; Fall
semester 2007; February-April 2005
• Reviewer, special issue of Proteus, a scholarly journal
• Facilitator, FYE, Fall 2010
• Chair, Faculty Development Committee, January 2006-09
• Member, Faculty Senate, 2008-present
• Faculty Representative, Marketing and Communications Committee, Board of
Trustees, 2008-2011
• Member, Core Curriculum Committee, appointed 2009
• Member, Strategic Planning Task Force, appointed 2009
• Organizer, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA,
November 2008
• Member, Transition Team for Research, 2007-09
• Faculty Representative, Friends of the Mary Kintz Bevevino Library, appointed
Spring 2007
• Reviewer, The Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, Renaissance Society of
America, 2006
• Co-Founder, Misericordia University Society of Scholars, 2006-present
• Member, Assessment Advisory Group, 2005-present
• Member, Library Search Committee, Summer 2005
• Organizer, Art Auction/Instress Benefit, December 5, 2004
• Member, English Department Search Committees, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2006-07, 200809, 2009-10
• Member, Fine Arts Department Search Committee, 2004-05, 2007-08
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Scriptwriter, Madrigal Dinner, December 2004 and December 2006
Co-founder, Diversity Luncheon Lecture Series
Mentor, New Faculty Mentoring Program, 2004-05, 2009-10
Member, Diversity Task Force, 2004
Member, Faculty Development Committee, 2004-09
Presentation Coordinator, Faculty Development Committee, 2004-06
Associate Editor, Núa: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, Appointed 2004
Guest Editor, Núa: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 6.2, Special issue on
Ireland and Film
Judge, Back Mountain Library Poetry Contest, Spring 2004
Reviewer, “Picturing Women: A Cross-Disciplinary Symposium”, March 2004
Reviewer, A Practical Introduction to Literary Study. Prentice Hall, 2004.
Member, SIC Grant Review Team, College Misericordia, 2002-3
Member, History Department Search Committee, 2002-3, 2005-06
Guest Reviewer for a special issue on Shakespeare and Popular Culture, College
Literature, 2002-3
Organizer, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Ninth Annual Conference
(GEMCS), Philadelphia, PA (November 14-18, 2001)
Member, Middle States Association Steering Committee, Appointed November 2001
Chair, Integrity Study Group, Appointed November 2001
Member, Master Plan Steering Committee, Appointed October 2001
Member, Faculty Welfare Committee, April 2001-May 2004
Member, Communications Department Search Committee, 2001-2003
Member, Martin Luther King Committee, Appointed Fall 2000
Advisor, Instress, 2000-06
Advisor, Literary Club (also called Educated Bums Society & Culture Club), 2000present
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Literary London Society
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Sigma Tau Delta