Clark Hulse, Professor of English and Art History. PhD, Claremont Graduate School. Clark Hulse has written books and articles on the literature and culture of the sixteenth century, especially on the relation of literature to art, gender, and politics. The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance appeared in 1990, and Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic in 1981. A collection of essays, Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, Empire, co-edited with Peter Erickson, is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press. His articles on Shakespeare have appeared in PMLA, Shakespeare Studies, and Criticism. He has been a Visiting Professor of Art History at Northwestern, has twice been Acting Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library, and has held NEH, Guggenheim, and British Academy fellowships. He frequently writes play notes for the productions of Shakespeare Repertory Theater in Chicago, and served on the program committee for the Second International Conference on the Teaching of Shakespeare, held in Chicago in February, 1998. His current research is on Renaissance visual culture. Prof. Hulse is also Executive Associate Dean of the Graduate College at UIC.
Paul Fortunato (Spring, 1999) double-majored in English and History at Columbia University and graduated in May 1991. He worked for five years as a writer at educational, advertising, and medical firms. He is earning his M.A. in English Literature in May of 1999, and has been focusing on the late Victorian/early Modernist period, as well as on literary theory.
After graduating in 1994 from Rollins College with a B.A. in Humanities, Jonathan Walker (Spring, 1999) began working toward an M.A. in English literature at the University of Central Florida. He completed the M.A. degree at Purdue University where he taught English composition for two years. While at Purdue, he centered his interests in late-medieval through Jacobean English drama and gave several scholarly papers on the work of both Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. Having recently begun the Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he continues to teach composition, Jonathan intends to write a dissertation on subjectivity in and around the drama of Elizabethan England.
Anita Dellaria (Spring, 1998) holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in English, and is a winner of the Ernest Van Keuren Award, given annually by the English department to the outstanding graduating senior. A specialist in Renaissance literature, she has published on the poetry of Mary Wroth. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. degree and her teacher certification, and is student-teaching at Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, Illinois. While assistant for English 313, she designed the Secondary Teaching Project.
Regina Buccola (Spring 1996, Fall 1995, Spring 1995) completed an undergraduate degree in English and Communications at Bellarmine College in Louisville, KY. After working for several years as a writer in both the non-profit and corporate sectors, she went to the University of Kentucky to pursue an M. A. in English. While completing her degree, she taught composition courses (basic, computer-assisted and honors section), the British and American literature surveys (correspondence) and worked as a tutor in the Writing Center. She arrived at UIC in fall 1994 and has taught a variety of composition and literature courses here while continuing graduate work. Regina is currently ABD and writing her dissertation on the ways in which early modern playwrights such as Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson and John Lyly used fairy lore to engage in social criticism.