JONATHAN BALDO

Curriculum Vitae

995 Highland Avenue
Rochester, New York  14620
(585) 442-9256

Humanities Department
Eastman School of Music
University of Rochester
26 Gibbs Street
Rochester, New York  14604
(585) 274-1610 (-1611)

EDUCATION

1976-1981:  Ph.D. in English, State University of New York at Buffalo
1972-1975:  B.A. in English, cum laude, Yale University
1971-1972:  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign                                                                        (concentration in chemistry and mathematics)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1990-PRESENT:  Associate Professor of English, Eastman School of Music,                                    University of Rochester
1983-1990:  Assistant Professor of English, Eastman School of Music
1981-1983:  Lecturer, English Department, University of Florida, Gainesville

BOOK

The Unmasking of Drama:  Contested Representation in Shakespearean Tragedy (Wayne State University Press, 1996).

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

“‘Into a thousand parts’:  Representing the Nation in Henry V,” forthcoming in English Literary Renaissance (Winter, 2008).

“Scotland’s Unusable Past,” forthcoming in Macbeth:  New Critical Essays, ed. Nick Moschovakis (Routledge, 2007).

“The Greening of Will Shakespeare,” forthcoming in Borrowers and Lenders:  The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (2007).

“Forgetting Elizabeth in Henry VIII,” in Resurrecting Elizabeth I in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by Elizabeth H. Hageman and Katherine Conway, (Madison, NJ:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007), 132-148.

Review of Searching Shakespeare:  Studies in Culture and Authority, by Derek Cohen (Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2003), in Shakespeare Studies 33 (2005), 217-20.

“Necromancing the Past in Henry VIII,” English Literary Renaissance 34, no. 3 (Autumn 2004), 359-86.

“Solitude as an Effect of Language in Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad,” reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations Series (Philadelphia: Chelsea House 2003), 85-114.

Review of Leon Harold Craig, Of Philosophers and Kings:  Political Philosophy in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and King Lear (University of Toronto Press, 2000), in Shakespeare Quarterly 54 (Fall, 2003), 333-5.

Review of Nick de Somogyi, Shakespeare’s Theatre of War, Shakespeare Quarterly 51 (2000), 499-501.

Review of Richard Hillman, Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama:  Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage (St. Martin’s Press, 1997), in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 12 (1999), 295-9.

“The Politics Of Aloofness In Macbeth,” English Literary Renaissance 26 (1996), 531-60.

“Wars of Memory in Henry V,” Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (1996), 132-59.

“Exporting Oblivion in The Tempest” Modern Language Quarterly 56 (1995), 111-44.

“Ophelia’s Rhetoric, or Partial to Synecdoche,” Criticism 37 (1995), 1-35.

“The Shadow of Levelling in Timon of Athens,” Criticism 35 (1993),  559-588.

“The Reader on Trial:  Or, is Reading Necessarily an Injudicious Act?” In Critical Essays on Franz Kafka, ed. Ruth V. Gross (Boston:  G.K. Hall, 1990), pp. 235-259.

“Narratives as Theatres and as machines:  Two forms of Repetition in Benjamin and
Kafka,” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 12 (1988), 11-28.

“Solitude as an Effect of Language in García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad,” Criticism
30 (1988), 467-496.

Review of Cynthia Chase, Decomposing Figures:  Rhetorical Reading in the Romantic Tradition (Johns Hopkins, 1986), Criticism 30 (1988), 141-144.

“Narrative Foiled in Bergman’s The Seventh Seal,” Theatre Journal 39 (1987), 364-382.

“A Semiotic Approach to Prospection in Shelley,” Semiotica 64 (1987), 279-297.

Review of Neil Hertz, The End of the Line:  Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime (Columbia, 1985), Critical Texts 4, No. 2 (1987), 26-28.

Review of Geoffrey Hartman, Easy Pieces (Columbia, 1985), Critical Texts 3, No. 3 (1986), 14-17.

“’His Form and Cause Conjoin’d’:  Reflections on ‘Cause” in Hamlet,” Renaissance
Drama, n.s., 16 (1985), 75-94.

“Theatricality, Generality, Drama:  Variations on the Theme of Context in Hamlet,”
Criticism 27 (1985), 111-131.

“’He that plays the king’:  The Problem of Pretending in Hamlet,” Criticism 25 (1983),
13-26.

SELECTED PAPERS

“All is Truancy:  Rebellious Uses of the Past in Henry IV, Part 1,” Shakespeare Association of America, San Diego, April, 2007

 “Scotland’s Unusable Past,” Shakespeare Association of America, Philadelphia, April, 2006

“The Greening of Will Shakespeare:  A Tale for Winter,” Shakespeare Association of America, Bermuda, March, 2005

“Shakespeare’s Incontinent Histories,” Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, April, 2004

“Remembering a Forgetful Reign:  The Memorialization of Elizabeth in Henry VIII,” Shakespeare Association of America, Victoria, British Columbia, April, 2003

“(Nec)romancing the Past in Henry VIII,” Conference on Renaissance Histories:  Shakespeare and the History Play, University of Central Lancashire, July, 2002

“The Politics of Amnesia in Richard II,” Shakespeare Association of America, Minneapolis, April, 2002

“Parliamentary and Theatrical Representation in Shakespeare’s Histories,” Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal, 2000 (winner of Open Submissions Competition, blind review of submissions)

“Stages of Forgetfulness in King John,” Shakespeare Association of America, San Francisco, April, 1999

“Recalling Early Modern Memory,” Sixth Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, Rhode Island, November, 1998

“Acts of Oblivion in 2 Henry IV,” Shakespeare Association of America, Cleveland, April, 1998

“Cultural Studies and the Campaign for Contemporary Memory,” Fifth Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chapel Hill, December, 1997

“(Nec)romancing the Past in Henry VIII.” The Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of American, March, 1997

“La Cosa Nostril, or Nasal Passages in Early Modern Culture,” Fourth Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Pittsburgh, September, 1996

“’The music of forgetting’: Mozart, Nietzsche, and the SATs.” Northeast MLA, Montreal, April, 1996

“Stages of Forgetfulness in Shakespeare’s Histories.” International Shakespeare Association and Shakespeare Association of America, World Shakespeare Congress, Los Angeles, April, 1996 (winner of Open Submissions Competition, blind review of submissions)

“Shakesbeer, or Brewing Discontent in Shakespeare Studies,” Third Annual Conference of Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, University of Texas at Arlington, October, 1995

“Impolitic Bodies in Coriolanus.” Annual Meeting of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Philadelphia, May, 1995

“’Washed in Lethe’:  Acts of Oblivion in 2 Henry IV,” Shakespeare Association of America, Chicago, march, 1995 (abstract published under Highlights of the Conference in The Shakespeare Newsletter)

“Aren’t We a Père?:  The Politics of Representation and Genre in Le Père Goriot,” Second Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Rochester, New York, November, 1994

“Wars of Memory in Henry V,” presented at a special session of the Shakespeare Association of America conference in Albuquerque, April, 1994 (winner of Open Submissions Competition, blind review of submissions)

“The Politics of Memory and Nostalgia in Branagh’s Henry V,” Northeast MLA, Pittsburgh, April, 1994

“The Tempest’s Lords of Weak Remembrance,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, University of Oklahoma, October, 1993

“Generally Speaking:  Hamlet’s Pursuit of Discursive Sovereignty,” presented at a special session of the Shakespeare Association of America conference in Kansas City, April, 1992 (winner of Open Submissions Competition, blind review of submissions)

“’We were not all unkind’:  Generalizing as Confounding in Timon of Athens,” Northeast MLA, Buffalo, April, 1992

“How Macbeth Moves,” conference on “Shakespeare and the Moving Image,” Ohio Shakespeare Conference, Bowdoin College, June, 1991

Moderator for the Conference “Marketing the Classics:  Responses to Joseph Horowitz’s Understanding Toscanini,” Eastman School of Music, September, 1990

“’Unlawful magic, and enticing lies’:  The Uses of Disenchantment in Keats,” NEMLA, University of Toronto, April, 1990

“The Reader on Trial, Or Is Reading Necessarily an Injudicious Act?” Conference on Narrative, International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Tulane University, April, 1990

“Narratives as Theaters and as machines:  Two Forms of Repetition in Kafka and Benjamin.” MLA, New Orleans, December, 1988

“Grave Riddles in Hamlet,” Mid-Hudson MLA, November, 1988

“Show and Tell:  The Rivalry of Eye and Ear in Hamlet,” Conference
on “New Languages for the Stage,” University of Kansas, October, 1988

“The Novel Posing as Drama:  The Case of Balzac’s Le Père Goriot,” Conference on Narrative, International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Ohio State University, April, 1988

“Riddling in Hamlet,” The Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Charleston, South Carolina, March, 1988

“Jacques Derrida:  A Retro-Spective,” Conference on Critical Theory, University of Rochester, February, 1988.

“Asking the Question of Hamlet Again (With the Help of Wittgenstein and Others),” Themes in Drama Conference, University of California at Riverside, February, 1988

“’Unlawful magic, and enticing lies’: Romanticism as a Poetics of the False,” Eastman School of Music, April, 1985

WORK IN PROGRESS

Acts of Oblivion:  Stages of Forgetfulness and the Idea of Nationhood in Shakespeare (Book manuscript, recently completed)

“Aren’t we a Père?:  The politics of Representation and Genre in Le Père Goriot” (In preparation)

“Morrison’s Beloved:  A Story to Count On?” (In preparation)

“Shakespeare’s Incontinent Histories” (In preparation)

HONORS & AWARDS

2001-2 ACLS Senior Fellowship
2000 Winner of Open Submissions Competition, Shakespeare Association of America
1996 Winner of Open Submissions Competition, International Shakespeare Association
1994, 1992 Winner of Open Submissions Competition, Shakespeare Association of America
1990 Bridging Fellowship, University of Rochester
1989 University Junior Faculty Award
1983 Tuition Fellowship, The School of Criticism and Theory, Northwestern University
1980-1 Inter-Campus Fellowship, State University of New York
1976-80 University Fellowship, State University of New York at Buffalo (University-wide competition)
1970 Finalist, Westinghouse National Science Talent Search (one of forty national finalists)

COURSES TAUGHT

On Shakespeare:
The Elizabethan Shakespeare
The Jacobean Shakespeare
Introduction to Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s History Plays

On Poetry:
Modern American Poetry
Contemporary American Poetry
Lyric Poetry
The English Romantic Poets (graduate seminar)
The Romantic Movement:  Poetry, Painting, Politics

On Film:
Cinema and Society:  An Introduction to Hollywood Film
European Art Cinema
Hitchcock

On the Novel:
James Joyce
Kafka
Contemporary Literature
Theory of the Novel (graduate seminar)
The Modern Novel
William Faulkner
Faulkner and Morrison

Other:
Colonialism and Literature
Images of America
Modernism:  The Arts in Historical Context
Cities and City Life
The Family:  Theme and Variations
Comedy:  Theory and Practice
A Survey of English Literature
The Western Cultural Tradition
Musicians in Literature
Writing About Music
Freshman Writing Seminar
Seminar in Writing
Short Fiction

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (SELECTED)

2007- Coordinator of the Freshman Writing Program
2007-  Faculty Senate; fourth elected term
2007  Review Committee, Shakespeare Association of America
2005-  Member of the University Committee for Interdisciplinary Studies (UCIS)
2004-7  Faculty Senate; third elected term
2003-4  Review Committee for Sproull Fellowships
1997-2005  Chair, Department of Humanities
2001-5  Eastman Delegate to Consortium for the Liberal Education of Artists
2005-7  Provided Poetry Selections for Women In Music Festival
1996-  Associate, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies (SBAI)
2004-6  Planning Committee for 2006 Centennial Activities in honor of Susan B. Anthony, SBAI
1994  Acting Chair, Department of Humanities
2002-3  Member, Committee for Revision of Academic Integrity Guidelines
1996-2002 Faculty Senate (by election)
1998, 1999  Nominating Committee for the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate
1997-98  CORE Committee for Curricular Reform, ESM
1997-99  Nominating Committee, Shakespeare Association of America
1997  Bridging Fellowship Reviewer
1997  Member, Search Committee for Chief Financial Officer, ESM
1997  Member, Committee on Learning Disabilities
1996-2000  Chair, All-ESM Speaker/Performer Committee
1996-2001  Member, University Standing Committee for Arts and Humanities; Member, Committee on Academic Policy, ESM; Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee,ESM
1983-  Review of Undergraduate Applicants’ files, ESM; Coordinator of Freshman Humanities, ESM; Chair, Committee on Academic Integrity; Chair, Faculty-Staff Library Committee; Judge for the Concerto Competition; Faculty Marshall
1983-  Service on dozens of dissertation committees, exam committees, tenure and promotion committees, search committees, and other ad hoc committees for both ESM and CAS
1994 Co-organizer of 2nd Annual conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Rochester, NY; Referee for Shakespeare Quarterly, College Literature,
and Mosaic, and McGill-Queens University Press

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Shakespeare Association of America
Kafka Society of America
Modern Language Association
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies

LANGUAGES

French (reading)
Spanish (reading)
German (reading)
Latin (reading)