ERIC RASMUSSEN
Department of English / 098
University of Nevada
Reno, Nevada 89557
775-682-6369
erasmussen@unr.edu
Education
The
University of Chicago
Ph.D. in English 1990
The
University of Chicago
M.A. in English 1983
Grinnell
College
B.A. Honors in English 1982
Academic appointments
The
University of Nevada, Department of English
Professor 2003-Present
The
University of London, Institute for English Studies
Research
Fellow 2005-2006
The
University of Nevada, Department of English
Director of Graduate Studies 2002-2005
The
University of Nevada, Department of English
Associate Professor 1996-2003
The
University of Nevada, Department of English
Assistant
Professor 1994-1996
The
University of Tulsa, Department of English
Visiting
Assistant Professor 1993-1994
AWARDS and honors
Alan
Bible Award for Excellence in Teaching,
College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada 2004
National
Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant for
The New Variorum Hamlet Project 2002-2004
Mousel-Feltner
Award for Excellence in Research (runner-up),
College of Arts and Science, University of Nevada 1999
National
Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant for
The New Variorum Hamlet Project 1997-1999
Junior
Faculty Research Award, University of Nevada,
($10,000) 1995
Marc
Perry Galler Prize for most distinguished dissertation
Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago 1990
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Publications: books
- The Royal Shakespeare
Company’s Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Co-edited with
Jonathan Bate. London: Macmillan; New York: Random House (Modern Library
series), 2007. Reviewed:
Penny Meyrick, The Express (April 6, 2007); Fiona Shaw, The
London Times (April 21, 2007); Stanley Wells, The Scotsman
(April 21, 2007); John Carey The Sunday London Times
(April 22, 2007); Richard Eyre, The Sunday Telegraph (April 22,
2007); Rombert McCrum, The Observer (April 22, 2007); Colin Burrow,
The Evening Standard (April 23, 2007); William Grimes, The New
York Times (April 27, 2007); A. N. Wilson, The Telegraph
(May 7, 2007); Michael Dobson, The London Review of Books (May
10, 2007)
- Cynthia’s Revels
in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. General
Editors Martin Butler, Ian Donaldson, and David Bevington. Cambridge
University Press, 2007.
- Comparative Excellence:
New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson. Co-edited with Aaron Santesso.
AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
- William Shakespeare and
John Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen. Co-edited with Richard
Proudfoot. The Malone Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Reviewed:
Emma Smith, TLS, 19 May 2006.
- The Three-Text Hamlet:
Parallel Texts of the First and Second Quartos and First Folio,
ed. Paul Bertram and Bernice W. Kliman. Second Edition, revised and
enlarged. Introduction by Eric Rasmussen. New York: AMS Press, 2003. Reviewed:
T. H. Howard-Hill, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
98 (2004): 393-4.
- The Norton Anthology of
English Renaissance Drama. Co-edited with David Bevington, Lars
Engle, and Katharine Maus. New York: W. W. Norton & Sons, 2002. Reviewed: Barbara Hodgdon, Studies
in English Literature 1500-1900 43 (2003): 495-554; J. R. Mulryne,
Renaissance Journal 7 (2003); Sarah Poynting, The Year’s Work
in English Studies 83 (2004): 375.
- William Shakespeare’s
King Henry VI Part 3, The Arden Shakespeare Third Series. Co-edited
with John Cox. London: Thomson Learning, 2001. Reviewed: John Jowett, Shakespeare
Survey 55 (2002): 292-6; Dieter Mehl, Archiv fur das Studium
der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen
239 (2002): 419-21; Thomas A. Pendleton, Shakespeare Newsletter
51 (2001-2): 95-7; Catharine Birkinshaw, Shakespeare in South Africa
15 (2003): 115; Lawrence Manley, Shakespeare Quarterly 54 (2003):
449-51; Barbara Hodgdon, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
43 (2003): 495-554.
- Christopher Marlowe: Doctor
Faustus and Other Plays. The World’s Classics Series. Co-edited
with David Bevington. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Published
simultaneously in the Oxford Drama Library. Reviewed: James Shapiro, Studies in
English Literature 1500-1900 36 (1996): 481-525.
- A Textual Companion to
‘Doctor Faustus’. The Revels Plays Companion Library. Manchester:
Manchester University Press; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Reviewed: Colin Wilcockson, The Review
of English Studies 48 (1997): 93; Norman Boyer, Marlowe Society
of America Book Reviews 13 (1994): 3-4; Keith Trickey, Reference
Reviews 10 (1996): 96.
- ______________, rpt.
“The Nature of the B-text.” In Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus,
ed. David Scott Kastan. A Norton Critical Edition. New York:
W. W. Norton, 2005, pp. 171-9. Reprint of Chapter 2.
- Dr. Faustus A- and B-Texts
(1604, 1616): Christopher Marlowe and his collaborator and revisers.
The Revels Plays Series. Co-edited with David Bevington. Manchester:
Manchester University Press; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993. Reviewed: Philip C. McGuire, Studies
in English Literature 1500-1900 34 (1994): 443-80; Laurie
E. Maguire, Marlowe Society of America Book Reviews
13 (1994): 1-2.
- ______________, rpt. “Faustus’
Tragedy.” In Doctor Faustus, ed. Sylvan Barnet. Signet Classic
edition. New York: Penguin, 2001, pp. 180-3. Reprint of pages 36-38
of the general introduction.
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Publications: books under contract
- Mankind and Everyman:
Two Medieval Morality Plays. Co-edited with Douglas Bruster. Arden
Early Modern Drama series. Forthcoming from Thomson Learning, 2008.
- A Descriptive Catalogue
of Shakespeare First Folios Worldwide. With Anthony James West.
In preparation for Palgrave/Macmillan.
- The New Variorum
‘Hamlet’. Co-edited with Bernice W. Kliman, Hardin Aasand, and
Nick Clary. In preparation for The New Variorum Shakespeare Series,
Modern Language Association of America.
Publications: reference work
- The Oxford Companion to
Shakespeare. General Editors Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001.
Entries on “editing,” “textual
criticism,” “printing and publishing,” “reading and the book
trade,” “act and scene divisions,” “anonymous publications,”
“assembled texts,” “authenticity,” “bibliography,” “blocking
entry,” “book,” “cancel,” “canon,” “capitalization,”
“cases,” “cast-off copy,” “chronology,” “collaboration,”
“colophon,” “compositors,” “computers,” “copy,” “copyright,”
“Ralph Crane,” “deletion,” “derelict plays,” “Dering manuscript,”
“device,” “disintegration,” “Douai promptbooks and manuscripts,”
“dramatis personae,” “emendation,” “entrances and exits,”
“facsimile editions,” “Folios,” “forme,” “foul case,”
“foul papers,” “galley,” “handwriting,” “imprint,” “interpolations,”
“italics,” “William and Isaac Jaggard,” “Longleat manuscript,”
“manuscript plays,” metrical tests,” “mislineation,” “misprints,”
“Northumberland manuscript,” “Octavo,” “parallel texts,”
“plots,” “proofreading,” “punctuation,” “Quartos,” “reported
text,” “revision,” “James Roberts,” “shorthand,” “speech-prefixes,”
“stage directions,” “Stantioners’ Company and Register,” “title
pages,” “transcripts.”
Publications: articles And chapters
in books
- “Gilded monuments and
living records: Critical editions in print and online.” Early Modern
Literary Studies 9.3 / Special Issue 12 (2004): 7-16.
- “Richly noted: a case for
collation inflation.” In In Arden: Editing Shakespeare. Essays
in Honour of Richard Proudfoot, ed. Ann Thompson and Gordon McMullan.
London: Thomson Learning, 2003, pp. 211-18.
- “Afterword.” Stage
Directions in “Hamlet” – New Essays and New Directions, ed.
Hardin Aasand. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press;
London: Associated University Presses, 2003, pp. 226-27.
- “The Date of Q4 Hamlet.”
The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
95 (2001): 21-9.
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Publications: articles And chapters
in books (cont.)
- “Contratos sin fecha: Los
Quartos no fechados de Hamlet
y Romeo and Juliet de Shakespeare.” Translated by Pascual Mondéjar.
Contrastes: Revista Cultural 12 (2000): 66-71.
- “Writing in the Margins:
Theatrical Manuscripts and the B-text of Doctor Faustus.” In
Marlowe, History, and Sexuality: New Critical Essays on Christopher
Marlowe, ed. Paul Whitfield White. New York: AMS Press, 1998.
- “Anonymity and the Erasure
of Shakespeare’s First Eighteenth-Century Editor.” In Reading
Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century,
ed. Joanna Gondris. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998.
- “The Revision of Scripts.”
In A New History of Early English Drama,
ed. David Scott Kastan and John Cox. New York: Columbia University Press,
1997.
- “Rehabilitating the A-text
of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.” Studies in Bibliography
46 (1993): 221-38.
- “Setting Down What the
Clown Spoke: Improvisation, Hand B, and The Book of Sir Thomas More.”
The Library 6th ser. 13 (1991): 126-36.
- “The Black Book
and the Date of Doctor Faustus.” Notes and Queries new
ser. 37 (1990): 168-70.
- “Shakespeare’s Hand in
The Second Maiden’s Tragedy.” Shakespeare Quarterly
40 (1989): 1-26; see also “Exchange” with MacD. P. Jackson, “The
Additions to The Second Maiden’s Tragedy: Shakespeare or Middleton?”
Shakespeare Quarterly 41 (1990): 402-7.
- “A Source for Keats’s
Misquotation of Lear.” The Keats-Shelley Journal 36
(1987): 20. With Arthur Evenchik.
- “The Relevance of Cast-Off
Copy in Determining the Nature of Omissions: Q2 Hamlet.”
Studies in Bibliography 39 (1986): 133-35.
- “Shakespeare’s The
Merchant of Venice III.ii.63-68.” The Explicator 44 (2)
(1986): 12-13.
- “The Implications of Past
Tense Verbs in Early Elizabethan Dumb Shows.” English Studies
67 (1986): 417-19.
- “Shakespeare’s Use of
Everyman in Timon of Athens.” American Notes and Queries
23 (1985): 131-35.
- “Pollux for pollax: An
Emendation of Hamlet I.i.63.” Hamlet Studies 6 (1984):
72-74.
- “Fathers and Sons in
Hamlet.” Shakespeare Quarterly 35 (1984): 436.
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Publications: REVIEWs
- Review essay. “The Year’s
Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: Editions and Textual Studies.”
Shakespeare Survey 59 (2006): 375-83.
- Review essay. “The Year’s
Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: Editions and Textual Studies.”
Shakespeare Survey 58 (2005): 343-57.
- Review of Marjorie Garber,
Shakespeare After All (Pantheon, 2004) and Stephen Greenblatt,
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (New York:
Norton, 2004). The Common Review 3 (2005): 51-3.
- Review essay. “The Year’s
Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: Editions and Textual Studies.”
Shakespeare Survey 57 (2004): 335-44
- Review essay. “The Year’s
Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: Editions and Textual Studies.”
Shakespeare Survey 56 (2003): 349-56.
- Review essay. “The Year’s
Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: Editions and Textual Studies.”
Shakespeare Survey 55 (2002): 386-91.
- Review essay. “The Year’s
Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: Editions and Textual Studies.”
Shakespeare Survey 54 (2001): 343-58.
- Review essay. “The Year’s
Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: Editions and Textual Studies.”
Shakespeare Survey 53 (2000): 331-45.
- Review of The First Quarto
of King Lear, ed. Jay Halio (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1994) and The First Quarto of Richard III, ed. Peter Davison
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Shakespeare Quarterly
50 (1999): 87-9.
- Review essay. “The Year’s
Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: Editions and Textual Studies.”
Shakespeare Survey 52 (1999): 302-26.
- Review of Laurie Maguire,
Shakespearean Suspect Texts: The 'Bad' Quartos and Their Contexts
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Modern Philology
96 (1999): 519-27.
- Review of John Jones,
Shakespeare at Work (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
- 1995). Modern Philology
96 (1999): 519-27.
- Review of Jonathan Hope,
The Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1994). Modern Philology 95 (1997): 109-113.
- Review of Gary Taylor and
John Jowett, Shakespeare Reshaped 1606-1623. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1993). Modern Philology 94 (1996): 33-7.
- Review of English Manuscript
Studies 1100-1700, Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths, gen. eds. (London:
The British Library, 1991). Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in
Medieval and Renaissance Culture New ser. 22 (1995): 185-7.
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Publications: REVIEWs (CONT.)
- Review of Philip J. Finkelpearl,
Court and Country Politics in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990). Medieval and Renaissance
Drama in England 7 (1994): 356-63.
- Review of Arthur McGee,
The Elizabethan ‘Hamlet’ (New Haven: Yale University Press,
1987). Marlowe Society of America Book Reviews 9 (1991): 3-5.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Invited
chair. Panel on “New Technologies and Renaissance Studies”
Renaissance
Society, Cambridge, England 2005
Discussant.
Panel on “Working with Early Modern Electronic Texts”
Renaissance
Society of America 2005
Conference
organizer with Aaron Santesso. Comparative Excellence:
Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson
University
of Nevada and Squaw Valley 2005
“The
Electronic Hamlet Database”
Shakespeare
Association of America, Bermuda 2005
“Dating
the Medieval Morality Play Everyman”
London
Shakespeare Seminar 2005
“Visions
and Revisions: Shakespeare’s Multiple Versions of
Henry VI”
Oregon
Shakespeare Festival 2004
“Methods
of Dating Early Modern Texts”
Stanford
University 2004
Invited
co-chair with Bernice Kliman. Seminar on
“Editing Now:
Issues and Answers for the Twenty-First Century”
Shakespeare
Association of America, New Orleans 2004
“Shakespeare
Teaches Teachers”
Brooklyn
Academy of Music and City College, New York 2003
“’Tis
most credible: Textual Fidelity in Print and Online”
Pacific
Renaissance Association, Nanaimo, B.C. 2003
Session
organizer. Panel on “Monitoring Electronic Shakespeare”
Shakespeare
Association of America, Victoria, B.C. 2003
Invited
co-chair with Lars Engle. Workshop on
“Teaching
Non-Shakespearean Drama”
Shakespeare
Association of America, Minneapolis 2002
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papers and presentations (CONT.)
“Cultural
Hooligan or Harmless Drudge? The Place of the
Shakespearean Editor”
International
Association of University Professors of English
Bamberg,
Germany 2001
“The
Mystery of the Undated Shakespeare Quartos”
London
Renaissance Seminar 2001
The
Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon 2001
University
of Tulsa 2001
Invited
chair. Seminar on “Editing Shakespeare’s Texts as
National Scriptures”
International
Shakespeare Association, Stratford-upon-Avon 2000
“Dateless
bargains: The Shelf-life of Undated Shakespearean Quartos”
Columbia
University 1999
“Hamlet’s
Inexplicable Dumb Show and the Future of Hypertext”
Shakespeare
Association of America, San Francisco 1999
“Within
the Book and Volume: The Place of the Stage in the
New Variorum Hamlet”
International
Shakespeare Association, Stratford-upon-Avon 1998
Invited
chair. Seminar on "Revisiting the New Bibliography”
Shakespeare
Association of America, Washington D.C. 1997
“Extant
Printer’s Copy as Material Evidence”
Shakespeare
Association of America, Washington, D.C. 1997
“Textual/Sexual
Indeterminacy: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
on page and stage”
Grinnell
College 1997
“Boys
will be girls will be boys in Shakespeare’s As You Like It”
Santa Rosa College 1997
“A
Hypertext Prototype for the New Variorum Hamlet”
World
Shakespeare Congress, Los Angeles 1996
“Middleton’s
Early Pamphlets, Marlowe, and the Language of Sodomy”
Shakespeare
Association of America, Chicago 1995
“Anonymity
and the Erasure of Shakespeare’s First 18th-Century Editor”
Shakespeare
Association of America, Albuquerque 1994
“Writing
in the Margins: Theatrical Manuscripts and the B-text of
Doctor Faustus”
Modern
Language Association, Chicago 1990
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EDITORIAL BOARDS
Shakespeare
Quarterly
Editorial
Board 2006-Present
The
Malone Society
Editorial
Council 2006-Present
The
Internet Shakespeare Project
General
Textual Editor 2001-Present
Editorial
Board 1995-Present
The
Complete Works of Shakespeare (Longman)
Editorial
Board : Textual Advisor 2004-Present
A
New History of Early English Drama (Columbia University Press)
Editorial
Board 1994-97
Named
“Book of the Year” for 1998 by the Association for Theater in Higher
Education
Medievalia
et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Book
Review Editor 1994-Present
Occasional
referee
Early
Modern Literary Studies
Guest
Editor: special issue on ‘Electronic Shakespeare’ 2004
Occasional
referee
Reviewer and referee
The
Leverhulm Trust: Research Awards Advisory Committee
Arts
and Humanities Research Council (UK)
Worcester
Polytechnic Institute (Tenure review)
Bedford/St
Martins Press (Boston)
University
of Virginia Press
Thomson
Publishing (London)
Modern
Philology
Papers
of the Bibliographical Society of America
AMS
Press (New York)
Sixteenth-Century
Journal
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teaching
Undergraduate: Shakespeare,
Renaissance Poetry and Prose, Renaissance Intellectual Texts, Early
Modern Drama, Eighteenth-Century British Novel, Literary Creations of
the Self, Reading and Interpreting Literature, Ancient Epic, Foundations
of Western Culture, Chaucer, History of the English Language, Bibliography
and Textual Criticism, Introduction to Drama, Professional Editing and
Publishing.
Graduate:
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Early Modern Drama and Culture, Renaissance Intellectual
Texts, Scholarly Editing, Problems in the Early Renaissance, Problems
in Seventeenth-Century Literature
Volunteer teaching:
UNR ElderCollege Program (seven-week courses on Shakespeare);
Annual
workshops for Washoe Country High School Teachers
university service, University of Nevada
Organizer
and Chair, UNR Renaissance Workshop
Humanities
Representative (elected), UNR Graduate Council
Graduate
Council Representative, Hydrological Sciences Program review
Chair,
Faculty Library Committee
Chair,
Western Traditions Search Committee
Western
Traditions steering Committee
University
Work/Family Task Force
Redfield
Campus advisory Committee
Mousel-Feltner
Research Award Committee
Alan
Bible Teaching Award Committee
Senior
Scholar Mentor
Faculty
sponsor, UNR Chess Club
Departmental service, UnR department
of english
Director
of Graduate Studies (2002-2005)
Chair,
Graduate Committee
Chair,
Literature Committee
Chair,
Search Committee
Chair,
Teaching Evaluation ad hoc Committee
Undergraduate
Committee
Personnel
Committee
Planning
Committee
Development
Committee
Departmental
Library Representative
Chair,
PhD Committee: Jennifer Forsyth
Chair,
PhD Committee: David Golz
Chair,
PhD Committee: Daniel Anderson
Chair,
PhD Committee: Lara Hansen
Chair,
PhD Committee: Matthew Trey Jansen
Chair,
PhD Committee: Robert Lerner
Chair,
PhD Committee: Dee Anna Phares
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Departmental service, UnR department
of english (CONT.)
Chair,
M.A. Committee: Ronald Belbin
Chair,
M.A. Committee: Anthony Illia
Chair,
M.A. Committee: Richard Michaelson
Chair,
M.A. Committee: Lori Mortensen
Chair,
M.A. Committee: Dee Anna Phares-Matthews
Chair,
M.A. Committee: Deborah Shipp
Chair,
M.A. Committee: Ronald Supprenant
Chair,
M.A. Committee: Adam Whatley
Radio and television appearances
KNPR, discussing RSC Complete Works
of Shakespeare, June 2007
ABC Radio (Austrailia), discussing RSC
Complete Works of Shakespeare, May 2007
BBC Radio “NightWaves” program,
on panel devoted to “Americans and Shakespeare”
April
2007
BBC Radio Wiltshire, discussing RSC
Complete Works of Shakespeare
April
2007
CBS Television News (National), discussing
newly-discovered portrait of Shakespeare
April,
2006
KUNR (local), interview, discussing
Shakespeare’s punctuation.
April,
2005
“When Myth became Fact: The Discovery
of Homer’s Troy”
PBS
series (local) on “The Western Tradition,” 1997