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Name: Linda Bamber
Title: Associate Professor of English
Departmental Affiliation: English Department
Degrees: B.A. Vassar College; M.A. Columbia University; Ph.D. Tufts University
Expertise: British and American Women Writers
Shakespeare
Buddhism and American Poetry
Major Awards: Cohen / Poughshares Fiction Award
E-mail: linda.bamber@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Book:

Comic Women, Tragic Men: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982.

Selected 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.” Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy (New Casebooks). Ed. Graham Holderness. London: Macmillan, 1991.

“Class Struggle: Shakespeare and Sexism.” The Women’s Review of Books 7:5 (1990).

“Sexism and the Battle of the Sexes in The Taming of the Shrew.” The Taming of the Shrew. William Shakespeare. Ed. Robert Heilman. New York: New American Library, 1987.

Selected Fiction:

“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).

“The Gross Clinic.” Kenyon Review XX:2 (Spring 1998).

Selected 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).

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