Linda Bamber, Director of First-Year Writing Program

Education
Ph.D., Tufts University
MA, Columbia University
BA, Vassar college

Biography
B.A. Vassar College, M.A. Columbia University, Ph.D. Tufts University. Currently Associate Professor of English. Director of the First Year Writing Program at Tufts 1985-1994; Chair of the English Department 1994-1998; Content Committe for Awake: A Consortium on Buddhism and the Arts 200-2003; served on numerous departmental committees, particularly hiring committees.

Curriculum Vitae
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Research Interests

• Shakespeare
• Women’s Writing
• Buddhism

Courses Taught

• Shakespeare
• Women and Fiction
• Short Fiction
• Perspectives on American Poetry
• Nineteenth Century Novel
• Seventeenth Century Poetry

Publication Highlights

• Books:
• Comic Women, Tragic Men: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982.
• Essays and Articles:
• “Reading as a Buddhist.” Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art. Eds. in Jacqueline Baas and Mary Jane Jacobs. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2004.
• “The Tempest and the Traffic in Women.” Literature for Composition, 4th Edition. Eds. Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William Burto and Marcia Stubbs. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Reprinted in Literature: Thinking Reading, and Writing Critically, 2nd Edition. Eds. Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William Burto and William E. Cain. New York: Longman, 1997.
• “Richard II to Henry V: History, Tragedy and Gender.” Ed. Graham Holderness. London: Macmillan, 1991.
• “Class Struggle: Shakespeare and Sexism.” The Women’s Review of Books 7:5 (1990)
• Fiction:
• “In the Forest.” Kenyon Review (forthcoming 2006)
• “Casting Call.” Southwest Review 90:2 (2005)
• “Together/Not Together” and “Sunnyside Up.” Harvard Review 27 (2004).
• “Dog Story.” Missouri Review XXVII:1 (2004).
• “Thirteen Visits.” Northwest Review 36:3 (1998).
• “Quetzal.” Sou’wester 27:1 (Fall 1998).
• “Claribel At Palace Dot Tunis.” Michigan Quarterly Review XXXVII:4 (Fall 1998). Reprinted in Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women’s Re-Visions in Literature and Performance. Ed., Marianne Novy. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
• “Public Transportation.” Tikkun 6:3 (May-June 1991).
• Poetry:
• “Changes” and “The Tower.” Euphony 4:1 (2004).
• “The Inner Game of Tennis.” Phantasmagoria 3:2 (2004).
• “Sound System.” Carquinez Poetry Review 2:2 (2004).
• “Procrastination Over” and “Dove Cottage.” Spoon River XXX:1 (Winter/Spring 2004).
• “Hairdresser Near Harvard Square.” Poet Lore 98:3-4 (Fall/Winter 2003).
• “Beginning.” New Orleans Review 29:2 (2003).
• “The Tower.” Clackamas Literary Review VI:1 (Spring/Summer 2002).
• “Academic in Traffic” and “Familiarity.” Ploughshares 28:1 (Spring 2002).
• “Academic in Traffic.” Greensboro Review 65 (Spring 1999).
• “Whether This Marriage Is Ending: Some Thoughts on Watching ‘Eyes on the Prize’ With Jonathan Strong and the New Freshman Class.” Northeast Corridor 6 (1999).
• “Sabbath.” Harvard Review 18 (Fall 1998).
• “Difficulty” and “Crabapple.” Raritan Review XVII:2 (Fall 1998).

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