Professional Resume

Helen M. Whall                    (508) 793-2708 (Office)
College of the Holy Cross      (508) 793 3030 (FAX)
One College Street         hwhall@holycross.edu
Worcester, MA 01610

Academic Background
     1976  Ph.D., English Literature, Yale University.
     1973  M. Phil., English Literature, Yale University.
     1971  B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Emmanuel College.

Academic Employment
Speaker of the Faculty 2000-2002
Associate Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross.
1997-99   Director of the College First Year program
1987-89   Director, College of the Holy Cross
                Honors Program

Courses Taught at Holy Cross
Shakespeare; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama;
Renaissance Survey; Modern Drama; Contemporary Drama; Representing the Law in Drama;
Advanced Expository Writing; various First Year
courses; various Honors Seminars; various seminars on
Gender and the Stage

Recipient of Distinguished Teaching Award 1997-98

Research and Publication

Book:

To Instruct and Delight:Didactic Method in Five Tudor Dramas:  New York: Garland, 1988.

Articles and Pamphlets:

"CRAWLing Toward Literature" in Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction, Judith H. Anderson and Christine R. Farris, eds. MLA Press, 2007.

"Envisioning Shakespeare/Shakespeare Envisioned," Introduction to Interfaces, 25, 2007-07.

"Aretino Reads Raimondi: Parodies Found," in Images of Matter, Yvonne Bruce ed. U Delaware. Spring, 2005.

"CRAWLing Toward Literature" in Writing Through Literature, Judith Anderson ed. MLA Press. Forthcoming.

"Caring for the Whole Faculty" Conversastions, The Journal of Jesuit Higher Education, August, 2004.

"Shakespeare's Evolving Bartlett's," in Shakespeare after Mass Media, Richard Burt, ed. London: Palgrave, 2000.

"Walter Mosley and His Books of Eziekiel," Paradoxa, October, 2001.

"Divining Paul in Shakespeare's Comedies," Hellas, No. 7, Summer, 1996.

"Hamlet and the Manner of the Miniature," Interfaces, No. 5, January, 1994.

“Horse and Carriage: Women and Weddings in Early Modern England,” Program essay for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Trinity Repertory Theater, September, 1997.

"The Power Behind Macbeth," 1991-92 Trinity Repertory, Essay in Humanities Booklet No. 6, Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities.

"The World Is a Stage/The Stage Is a World," 1991-92 Trinity Repertory Humanities Booklet No. 1, Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities.

"Moliere and the Masks of Comedy," 1990-91 Trinity Repertory Humanities Booklet No. 4, Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities.

"Brecht and the Play of Ideas," 1989-90 Trinity Repertory Humanities Booklet No. 1, Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities.

"The Idiot and Divine Folly," Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," 1988-89 Trinity Repertory Humanities Booklet No. 6, Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities.

"As You Like It: The Play of Analogy," Huntington Library Quarterly, 47 No. 1, Winter 1984.

"I, We, They: The Individual and the Institution," Brecht's Galileo, 1983-84 Humanities Booklet No. l, Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities.

"The Case Is Altered:  Brecht's Use of Shakespeare," Toronto Quarterly, 51 No. 2, Winter 1981-82.

"Future Perfect:  The Pastoral Tense of Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle," Studies in the Humanities 9 No. 1, 1981.

Editorial Work

Editor: Shakespeare Envisioned: Interfaces Vol. 25, 2006-07.

Editorial board: Interfaces: an International Journal of Word and Image

Editorial consultant, "Shakespeare," 16th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1993.

Editor, Theatre Journal: "Theatre in Review," 1983-86.

Assistant Editor; Associate Editor Yale U Thomas More Project, 1972-76.

Conferences Papers

The Shenandoah Shakespeare Conference
October, 2003; October, 2005

The Renaissance Society of America, May, 2004.

The International Conference of Word and Image,
Nice, France, 1993; Paris, 1999

Shakespeare Association of America
1988-93; 1995; 2000; 2005.

Popular Culture Association of America 1998, 1999

American Association of Higher Education 1998, 1999

Lectures
           Visiting Shakespearean, Universite de Bourgogne,
           Dijon, France: January, 1994

           NEA Scholar, The Miniature Theater,
           The Berkshires: Summer 1993, 1994

           Public Lecturer under the auspices of the
           National Endowment for the Humanities, State
           Agencies, and various Friends of the Library Committees:
           1980-2007.

Professional Organizations
 

       Modern Language Association
       Shakespeare Association of America
       Renaissance Society of America

College Service

       All major College policy committees, including Educational policy Committee, Committee on Tenure and promotion, Academic Affairs Council, and Finance and Planning Council;  most major departmental committees, including personnel and graduate studies.   Speaker of the Faculty, 2000-2002.

Civic Service
       Worcester Citizens Advisory Council (1995-2002); The Reggie Walley Legacy Foundation (2004) ; University of Massachussets Medical School Committee to Advance Research in Breast Cancer (2007-).