R L Widmann

Associate Professor of English
Office: Denison 295
Telephone: 303-492-8946
E-mail: r.widmann@colorado.edu
Home page: http://spot.colorado.edu/~widmann


Research and teaching interests

Renaissance literature; gender studies

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1967
A.M., University of Illinois, Urbana, l964
B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, l963

Publications

Essays

“Teaching a Gendered Renaissance: The Material Record,” Attending to Early Modern Women, ed Amussen and Seef. University of Delaware, 1999, 319-21

"Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet: A Novelist Reimagining the 'Colonial Mind.'" American Journal of Commonwealth and Post-Colonial Studies 2 (1993): 38-55

"Recent Trends in Computer Applications." Computers and the Humanities 9 (1975): 231-35

"The Poetry of Cynthia Macdonald." Concerning Poetry (Spring 1974): 19-26. Rpt. in Feminist Criticism: Essays on Theory, Poetry, and Fiction. Ed. Brown and Olson. Scarecrow Press, 1978, 201-13

"Compositors and Editors of Shakespeare Editions." PBSA, 67 (1973): 389-400

"Upon Looking into Shakespeare's Sonnet 73." Library Chronicle 39, 2 (1973): 81-89

"Shakespeare and the Computer." Bulletin of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, 1, 3 (1973): 22-25

"Edmond Malone's Manuscript Notes on Pope and Gray." Notes & Queries 218 (1973): 215-17

"Computer Collation." Computer Studies in the Humanities and Verbal Behavior 4, 1 (1973): 45-51

With Joseph Raben, "Information Systems Applications in the Humanities." Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 7 (1972): 439-69

"Recent Scholarship in Literary and Linguistic Studies." Computers and the Humanities 7 (1972): 3-27

"The World Shakespeare Congress: A Report." Computers and the Humanities 6 (1972): 208

"The Computer and Editing Shakespeare." Shakespearean Research and Opportunities 5-6 (1972): 53-59

"The computer in historical collation of multiple editions of Midsummer Night's Dream," The computer in literary and linguistic research. Ed. R.A. Wisbey. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1971, 57-73

"Computers and Literary Scholarship." Computers and the Humanities 6 (1971): 3-14

"Morgann's Notes in Theobald's Shakespeare." Notes & Queries 215 (1970): 525

"An Iris Murdoch Checklist." Critique 10 (1967-68): 17-29

"Murdoch's Theory and Practice of Fiction in Under the Net." Critique 10 (1967-68): 5-16

Selected honors and awards

Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Service, 2006

Award for Outstanding Service to the University of Colorado, CU Faculty Council, 2003

Teaching Recognition Awards, Student Organization for Alumni Relations, CU Boulder, 1981, 1992

Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Excellence Award, CU Boulder, 1989

President's University Service Award, CU Boulder, 1987

Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 1978

Folger Shakespeare Library Senior Fellow, 1974-75

Current projects

Mary Sidney's Psalms and Engendering Translation (book)

Material Culture and Theories of Narratives in Mary Wroth's “Urania” (book)

An article on the history of tenure in the U.S.

Volumes of poetry: "Writing the Map," "Nature and Art," "The Porcelain Lady," "Elephants," "Flying," "New"