BENJAMIN BERTRAM. Department of English University of Southern Maine 96 Falmouth Street Portland, Maine 04104

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1 BENJAMIN BERTRAM Department of English University of Southern Maine 96 Falmouth Street Portland, Maine Telephone: (207) EDUCATION Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1997 M.A. University of California, San Diego, 1994 B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989 TEACHING APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Southern Maine, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Southern Maine, Lecturer, San Diego State University, Lecturer, University of California at San Diego, Teaching Assistant, University of California at San Diego, SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Bertram, Benjamin. Webster s Geometry; or, The Irreducible Duchess. English Literature 1 (Forthcoming in October 2014). Bertram, Benjamin. Measure for Measure and the Discourse of Husbandry. Modern Philology 110: 4 (Spring 2013), Bertram, Benjamin. Falstaff s Body, the Body Politic, and the Body of Trade. Exemplaria 21:3 (2009), Bertram, Benjamin. The Time is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare s England. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.

Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Southern Maine, 1997-2004 Lecturer, San Diego State University, 1996-97 Lecturer, University of California at San Diego, 1996-97 Teaching

2 Bertram, Benjamin. The Spectrality of the Sixties. Historicizing Theory. Ed. Peter Herman. New York: SUNY Press, 2004, Bertram, Benjamin. New Reflections on the Revolutionary Politics of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. boundary 2 22 (1995): Bertram, Benjamin. Review of Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt, Literature and History 12:1 (Spring 2003). Bertram, Benjamin. Review of Charting an Empire by Lesley Cormack, Annals of the Association of American Geographers (March 2001). Bertram, Benjamin. Review of Shakespeare s Troy by Heather James, Literature and History 8:2 (Autumn 1999). Bertram, Benjamin. et. al. Afterword. The Cultures of Globalization, eds. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi. Durham: Duke University Press, SELECTED CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Thomas Coryate and Renaissance Cosmopolitanism. Premodern Scholars of Maine, September The People are the City : the Mob and the Body Politic from Coriolanus to Occupy Wall Street, delivered at the University of Brighton, April, Invited speaker. John Webster s The Duchess of Malfi and the Ecology of Desire. Shakespeare Association of America, March, Chorographic Coryate. Shakespeare Association of America, April, Tamburlaine the Great and the Military Revolution of the Sixteenth Century. Northeast Modern Language Association, April, Measure for Measure and the Discourse of Husbandry. Shakespeare Association of America. April, Falstaff s Body and the Body of Trade. Shakespeare Association of America, April, The Trade in Newfangledness. Shakespeare Association of America, March, Christopher Marlowe, Anti-Semitism, and Economic Change. Shakespeare Association of America, April, 2004.

Review of Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt, Literature and History 12:1 (Spring 2003). Bertram, Benjamin.

3 Respondent for Susan Willis, Bodily Transformations: Allegory and Utopia, Colloquium for Theory, Literature, and Culture Certificate at University of Southern Maine, July, Christopher Marlowe s Cynical Reason. Shakespeare Association of America, March, Hammer Time: Francis Bacon and the Control of Pleasure. Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, November Technology and Subversion in Early Modern England. Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, October Shakespearean Skepticism and Social Bonds. Northeast Modern Language Association Meeting, April, King Lear: Skepticism, History, Ideology. University of Southern Maine Shakespeare Colloquium, December, "Redrawing the Boundaries of Early Modern Science: Christopher Marlowe and the Northumberland Circle. Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, March, "Seventeenth-Century Science and the Discourse of Globalization in the Modern Age. Graduate Student Forum of "Globalization and Culture" conference at Duke University, November "Unmasking 'the Body': Skepticism and Materialism in Hamlet and Early Modern England. Northern California Renaissance Conference, April Moderator for panel "Circulating Culture," at the University of California, Santa Barbara Renaissance Conference, "Everyday Life: Practice and Representations," April "Skepticism and Materialism in Hamlet. Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, February, " To Set Foorth the Glorie of God': Witches, Sceptics and State-Formation in Early Modern England. University of California, Santa Barbara Renaissance Conference, "Unauthorized Activities," April, SERVICE AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE Chair, Professional Writing Committee, Honors Council, 2014-

Technology and Subversion in Early Modern England. Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, October 1999. Shakespearean Skepticism and Social Bonds.

4 Chair, English Department, Co-chair, Thinking Matters Symposium, Search Committee for Associate Provost, 2013 USM Research Council, Lecture at Stonecoast MFA Program, July, 2011: Making Poetry: Language and Technology in Early Modern England Director of Advising, English Department, (3 semesters) Search Committee: Administrative Assistant (Fall 2011) Member, Faculty Professional Development Committee, Author s Wall Committee, 2009 Listener, Honors Program, December of 2008 Chair and Co-Chair, English Department Curriculum Committee, Member, English Department Gen Ed Ad Hoc Committee, Member, English Department Personnel Committee, Member, English Department Search Committee, Organizer, English Department Lecture Series, Member, English Department Search Committee, Chair, English Department Curriculum Committee, Member, English Department Curriculum Committee, Member, English Department Personnel Committee, Member, English Department Curriculum Committee, Chair, English Department Curriculum Committee, Member, USM General Scholarship Committee, Spring 2002 Participant in Provost s Summer Writing Seminar, 2001 Member, English Department College Writing Committee,

Member, Faculty Professional Development Committee, 2010-2012 Author s Wall Committee, 2009 Listener, Honors Program, December of 2008 Chair and Co-Chair, English Department Curriculum Committee,

5 Member, English Department Curriculum Committee, Member, English Department Search Committee, Member, Space Committee, Member, USM Faculty Senate, Member, English Department Student Affairs Committee, Representative, USM Charity Fundraising Drive, PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIP Member, Renaissance Society of America present. Member, Shakespeare Association of America present. Member, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Member, Modern Language Association Member, Northeast Modern Language Association PUBLIC SERVICE Portland Stage Company Board of Trustees, 2013-present. Portland Stage Company Development Committee, 2013-present. Maine Jewish Film Festival, Advisory Committee, Hebrew Free Loan Board of Directors, Scholarly Consultant and Co-Curator for Osher Map Library Exhibit on The Grand Tour and the Development of Tourism: 1600 to 1900 (Exhibit dates:10/4/11-4/28/12). Guest Lecture at Osher Map Library: Thomas Coryate: The First Tourist (November 17, 2011). Scholarly Respondent. The Tempest (Acorn Productions/Naked Shakespeare) March 18, 19, 2010 (USM Talbot Hall). Organizer for A Shakespearean Soirée, a fundraiser for Portland s Acorn Productions/Naked Shakespeare Theatre Group. June, 2010.

2013-present. Member, Shakespeare Association of America. 2001-present. Member, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 1998-2001. Member, Modern Language Association. 1993-2001.

6 Book Reviewer for The Voice (Newsletter for the Jewish Community Alliance in Maine): Review of two novels by Philip Roth. Scholarly Respondent for Shakespeare s Julius Caesar at Portland Stage Company. Part of the Artistic Perspective series in September of Organizer, Shakespeare Birthday Lecture, delivered by David Kastan at Portland Public Library on April 28, President, Board of Directors, Maine Jewish Film Festival, Vice-President, Maine Jewish Film Festival, Film Reviewer, Maine Jewish Film Festival, 2004, 2005, Member, Board of Directors, Maine Jewish Film Festival, Lecture on Tennessee Williams delivered at the Mad Horse Theater on October 28, Faculty Member of Jewish University (Volunteer work for Temple Beth-El, Portland). Lectures delivered on November 6 and November 13, 2001 and April 6, 2003.

Organizer, Shakespeare Birthday Lecture, delivered by David Kastan at Portland Public Library on April 28, 2008. President, Board of Directors, Maine Jewish Film Festival, 2006-2008.

Robert Matz Department of English George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 (703) 993-1170

1 Robert Matz Department of English George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 (703) 993-1170 Positions Held Associate Dean for Curriculum and Technology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences,