Professor, Emeritus
Publications
Books
![]() | Dante: ‘Paradiso’: A new translation and commentary (Hackett Publishers, 2017) |
Dante: ‘Purgatorio’: A new translation and commentary, 2nd Edition (Focus/Hackett Publishing, 2014) | |
![]() | Dante ‘Inferno’: A new translation and commentary (Focus Classics, 2008, 2nd printing 2016). |
![]() | Reclaiming the Humanities: The Roots of Self-Knowledge in the Greek and Biblical Worlds with Richard I. Sugarman (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1986; 2nd edition 1991). |
Shakespeare and ‘Lucrece’: The Poem and Its Relations to the Plays | (Salzburg: University of Salzburg Press, 1975). |
Selected Articles and Chapters
“The Commemoration of Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century” | book chapter for Patrick Hutton, Cultural Memory in the Eighteenth Century, (London: Bloomsbury Publishers) (to appear September 2018). |
Dante, Inferno, Canto 27 (translation) | anthologized in To Hell and Back: An Anthology of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ in English (1782-2017), ed. Tim Hill and Marco Sonozogni, John Benjamin Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2017 |
“’Let them scratch wherever it itches’: Dante and Proverbs” | Festschrift forWolfgang Mieder (2015) |
“’Met him pike hoses’”: Ulysses and the Neurology of Reading” | Joyce Studies Annual, 2013 |
Performance: “Narrative of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro,” | Vermont Mozart Festival, July 28, 2007. |
Associations and Affiliations
Shakespeare Association of America
International James Joyce Society
Beckett Society of America
Dante Society of America
Association of Core Texts and Courses

Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Dante and translation and commentary of Dante's divine comedy, James Joyce and Modernism and neuroesthetics, Shakespeare, Shakespeare and film, modern drama, along with literature of the western tradition
Education
- Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School, 1973
Contact
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Courses Taught
- Joyce
- Dante's Divine Comedy
- Dawn of Modernism
- Shakespeare
- Modern British and Continental Drama
- Time in Modern Literature
- Shakespeare and Philosophy
- World Literature
- Shakespeare and Film