R L Widmann
r.widmann@colorado.edu

Research & 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 & 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, 1987Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 1978
  • Folger Shakespeare Library Senior Fellow, 1974-75

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”