Education
High School:
St. Mary's District Collegiate Institute, St. Mary's, Ontario.
College:
Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan--B.A. 1963
Graduate Studies:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor--Ph.D. 1970

Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor of English, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1968-1970
Assistant Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1970-1974
Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1974-1993
Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1993-present
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, University of Michigan, 1991-1994

Administrative Experience--University of Michigan
Head, Great Books Program, 1973-1976
Director, (in conjunction wth Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Wisconsin), Programs in Florence, Italy 1976, 1977, 1984-1985 (taught in Programs 1973-1977, 1982, 1984, 1985)
Chair of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 1980-1991
Interim Chair, Office of International Programs, Winter Term, 1989; Head of Steering Committee 1987-1989
Associate Chair, Department of English, 1989-1991
Acting Chair, Department of English, Summers 1989, 1990, 2000
Director, Honors Program in English, 1993-1995
Director, Program on Studies in Religion, 1996-1999
Associate Chair, Department of English, 1999-2002

Awards and Honors
Phi Beta Kappa, and a number of others while attending school
Ralph Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M, 1970-1971
Distinguished Service Award, U-M, 1974
Class of 1923 Award for Undergraduate Teacher, U-M, 1974
Newberry Library Fellowship, Chicago, 1983
Amoco Teaching Award, 1987
Rackham Faculty Research Fund Grant, 1987
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, 1991-1994
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Teaching Award, 1991
Golden Apple Teaching Award, 1992
Excellence in Education Teaching Award, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001
"Best Professor" Michigan Daily Newspaper Survey (nine of the last ten years)

Lecture and Conference Work (a sample)
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Western Carolina University, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Cum Laude Lecture, The Cranbrook Schools, November, 1999
National Conference on Peace and Justice, February 1999 Wayne, Michigan; March 2000, Cleveland, Ohio; February 2001, Dayton, Ohio
Public lectures on Shakespeare & the First History Tetralogy, Ann Arbor, January-February 2001
Collaboration with Michael Boyd of the Royal Shakespeare Company on a production of Shakespeare's first history tetralogy, Stratford and London, 2000-2001
Sirchio Distinguished Lecturer, Cranbrook Schools, October 2001
Public lectures on the plays of the Royal Shakespeare Company Residency, Ann Arbor, January-April 2002

Video Work
With Fathom, a five-part series on Shakespeare's 1, 2, 3 Henry VI and Richard III, 2002.