CURRICULUM VITAE

HARDY M. COOK, III

 

 

EDUCATION: 

 

                1982-88                     Ph.D. University of Maryland at College Park

                                                  Dissertation: “Reading Shakespeare on Television”

                1970-76                     M.A. (6/72) University of Maryland at College Park

                                                  Major: English Language and Literature

                1965-69                     B.A. University of Maryland at College Park

                                                  Major: English Language and Literature

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 

                1995-2004                 Professor of English, Bowie State University

                1989-1995                 Associate Professor of English, Bowie State University

                1979-1989                 Assistant Professor of English, Bowie State University                    

                1978-1979                 Instructor, Bowie State College                                                

                1977-1978                 Laboratory Instructor, Bowie State College                                      

                1970-1976                 Graduate Assistant, University of Maryland at College Park                                           

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 

                Owner/Editor/Moderator of SHAKSPER: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference

                                  <SHAKSPER@shaksper.net>, with approximately 1,300 members from 62 countries

                Member of the Senior Editorial and Advisory Board of Early Modern Literary Studies: An Electronic

                                  Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Sheffield Hallam University

                Member of the Editorial Board for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria

                Member of the Editorial Board for Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance, University of Lódz

                Former Contributing Editor to The Shakespeare Newsletter

 

 

SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES:

 

                1996-2002 Chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages

                1995-1996 Chair of the Bowie State University Curriculum Committee

                1994-1995 Special Assistant to the Provost

                1995          Presidential Intern

1988-1996 Title III Project Director for Computer-Supported Writing Center

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS:

 

“Shakespeare on the Internet.” Shakespeare in the Media: From the Globe Theatre to the World Wide Web.  Eds. Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier and Jörg Helbig. Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Wien: Peter Lang, 2004.

“S H A K S P E R: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference: An Overview.” College Literature. Forthcoming.

“Review: Anthony James West’s The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book Volume I: An Account of the First Folio Based on its Sales and Prices, 1623-2000.” The Shakespeare Newsletter. 255 (Winter 2002-2003): 111-112, 127.

“Varieties of the Electronic Textual Experience.”  Plenary Speech. West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Annual Meeting, Charleston, WV, April 6-7, 2001.

“La Politica de un Grupo de Discusion Academica.” Translated by Ignacio Pascual Mondejar and Juan Perez Moreno. Comunicacion. January 2001: 111-117.

“Review: The Chadwyck-Healey Editions and Adaptation of Shakespeare Database. Early Modern Literary Studies. January 2001: <http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/reviews/eas/cookeas.htm>.

“Review: The Chadwyck-Healey The Bible in English Database. Early Modern Literary Studies. June 2000: <http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/reviews/cooklion.htm>.

“Review: Richard Burt’s Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture, The Shakespeare Newsletter. 242 (Fall 1999): 63, 68.

“Take your choice of those that best can ayde your action”: Editing and the Electronic Text. CEAMagazine Spring 2000: 3-14. (1998 Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting.  Panel Paper and PowerPoint Presentation.  March 21, 1998, Cleveland, Ohio. College English Association – Middle Atlantic Group Annual Conference. Keynote Address. March 6, 1999.)

“Reformatting Hamlet: Creating a Q1 Hamlet  for Television.”  Shakespeare Yearbook. Vol. VIII (1997). Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997: 370-382.  Originally presented at 1996 Sixth World Shakespeare Congress. 

Shake-speares Sonnets and Lovers Complaint 1609. Ed. Hardy Cook and Ian Lancashire. Renaissance Electronic Texts 3.  Toronto: Web Development Group, University of Toronto Library, 1998.  <http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/shakespeare/1609inti.html>. Also, included as an exemplary text in the CD-ROM accompanying Using TACT with Electronic Texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools.  Ed. Ian Lancashire.  New York: MLA, 1996.

“Review: The World Shakespeare Bibliography on CD-ROM.”  The Shakespeare Newsletter, 46 (Summer 1996): 33-34.

“Jane Howell’s BBC First Tetralogy: Theatrical and Televisual Manipulation.”  Literature-Film Quarterly.  20 (1992): 326-331.

“Review: Janet Adelman’s Suffocating Mothers.”  The Shakespeare Newsletter. 42 (Summer 1992): 29-30.

“Shakespeare on Television: Recognizing What We See.”  CEA MAGazine. Spring 1992: 5-11.  Originally Keynote Address for 1991 Annual Meeting of the College Language Association, Middle Atlantic Group.

“Reading Shakespeare on Television.”  Dissertation.  University of Maryland, 1988.  Director: Maynard Mack, Jr.  Readers: Jane Donawerth and Neil Isaacs

“Two Lears for Television: An Exploration of Televisual Strategies.” Literature-Film Quarterly.  14 (1986): 179-186.  Reprinted in Shakespeare on Television: An Anthology of Essays and Reviews.  Eds. James C. Bulman and H. R. Coursen.  Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1988 and in the Appendix to James P. Lusardi and June Schlueter.  Reading Shakespeare in Performance: King Lear. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.                                  

 

 

HONORS:

 

                2004                                          Thirtieth-first International Shakespeare Conference. The Shakespeare Institute.

                                                                  Stratford-upon-Avon.

                2002                                          Thirtieth International Shakespeare Conference. The Shakespeare Institute.

                                                                  Stratford-upon-Avon.

                2000                                          Twenty-ninth. International Shakespeare Conference. The Shakespeare

                                                                  Institute. Stratford-upon-Avon.

                1999                                          University System of Maryland Regents’ Faculty Award for Excellence in

                                                  Research/Scholarship/Creative Activity Category

                1999                                          Maryland Public Television’s “Maryland State of Mind,” “The Bard in Back,”

                                                                  September 30, 2000.

                1999                                          Talking Up Shakespeare in Cyberspace: Professor Receives Award for E-Mail

                                                                  Discussion Group.” By Eugene L. Meyer. The Washington Post. Thursday,

                                                                  May 20, 1999; Page M02

                1998                                          Twenty-eighth. International Shakespeare Conference. The Shakespeare

                                                                  Institute. Stratford-upon-Avon.

                1995                                          Presidential Internship

                1994                                          Certificate of Achievement, The Maryland Association for Higher Education,

                                                Outstanding Faculty Category (Nominee MAHE Outstanding Educator of the

                                                Year)

                1993-1994                                 Bowie State University Professor of the Year

                1990                                          N.E.H. Humanities Institute on “Shakespeare and the History of Taste.”

                                                  The Folger Shakespeare Library, summer 1990.

                1984-1985                                 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Study Grant

 

 

MEMBERSHIPS:

 

                                  Shakespeare Association of America

                                  International Shakespeare Association

                                  The Malone Society

                                  The English Renaissance Text Society

                                 

 

CURRENT RESEARCH AND AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST AND EXPERTISE:

 

·         Shakespeare’s Poems for the Internet Shakespeare Editions <http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/Texts/Poems/Ven/index.html>.

·         Shakespeare

o        Electronic Texts

o        Editing and Producing Electronic Editions

o        Shakespeare on the Internet and in Electronic Media

·         Humanities Computing

o        Humanities Computing Applications

§         Electronic Text Preparation and Analysis

§         Bibliographic and Citation Management

§         Note Taking

§         Spreadsheets and Databases

o        Text Encoding (SGML, HTML, XML, COCOA)

o        Integrating Technology into the Classroom

o        The Internet as a Research Tool