Academic Vita
FREDERICK KIEFER
EDUCATION
1972 Ph.D., English Literature, Harvard University
1968 M.A., English Literature, Harvard University
1967 B.A., English Literature, Loyola College, Maryland
MAJOR FIELD Shakespeare and the drama of his contemporaries; Elizabethan visual culture
HONORS
2014 University Distinguished Professor
2008 College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award
2007 William A. Ringler, Jr., Fellow at The Huntington Library
2006 International Travel Grant to attend the International Shakespeare
Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon
2004 International Travel Grant to attend the International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon
2003 Provost’s Author Support Fund Grant for publication of my new book published by Cambridge University Press
2001 International Travel Grant to attend the World Shakespeare Congress in Valencia, Spain
2000 Student Alumni Association Award for “outstanding efforts as an educator and a mentor.”
1996 University of Arizona Grant for research in London
1995 Mortar Board Award for Teaching and Service, University of Arizona 1995
1995 $1,000 prize awarded by the University of Delaware Press for the best book submitted in the field of Shakespeare studies
1986 Fellowship (summer), Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA
1981 Fellowship (summer) NEH Humanities Institute: Shakespeare in Performance, Folger
Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
1979 Fellowship (fall), Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California
1979 Fellowship (summer), Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1967-72 Graduate Prize Fellowship, Harvard University
1967-68 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Harvard University
LECTURES
2014 “Secrets of the Renaissance Garden.” A lecture for the University of Arizona Library, Special Collections, Early Book Lecture Series.
2012 “The Elizabethan House and the Italian Renaissance.” A lecture for the University of Arizona Library, Special Collections, Early Book Lecture Series
2012 “Stage Directions in Julius Caesar.” A lecture for the University of Arizona Theatre Arts production of Shakespeare’s play.
2011 “Shakespearean Tragedy and the Galileo Connection.” Address to the Stanford University Club.
2011 “Galileo, Shakespeare, and King Lear.” Address to Phi Beta Kappa.
2010 Stars in Their Eyes: Galileo Meets Shakespeare, film project, Shakespeare consultant.
2010 TV interview about Shakespeare’s popularity today: Arizona Illustrated (PBS).
2007 Filmed interview in Flagstaff for the Arizona Regents Reach Out Program on teaching Shakespeare in the public schools: “Romeo and Juliet and the Re-emergence of Imagery Studies in the Analysis of Performance.”
2005 TV Interview about new biographies of Shakespeare: Arizona Illustrated (PBS).
2005 “The Many Faces of Elizabeth I,” an address about portraits of the Queen delivered at a public symposium accompanying an exhibit by the Newberry Library and called “Elizabeth: Ruler & Legend,” Scottsdale Public Library.
1997 Address to the Harvard Club of Southern Arizona: “Opening Season at the New Globe Theater in London”
Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association, Marlowe Society of America, Renaissance Society of America, Shakespeare Association of America, Renaissance Conference of Southern California
Extramural
2013 Reader for the University of South Carolina Press
2012 Seminar Chair: Visual Studies and Early Modern Drama, Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America
2012 Chair: “The Sensuality of Sound and Female Embodiment,” ACMRS Conference on Erotica and the Erotic in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Tempe
2012 Evaluation of a candidate for tenure at Florida International University
2011 Reader for Modern Philology
2011 Chair, “Shakespeare in Rhetorical and Economic Contexts,” ACMRS Conference on Performance and Theatricality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Tempe
2010 Chair, “Patronage and Politics in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” ACMRS conference on Humanity and the Natural World
2009 Evaluation of the dissertation of David H. Levy, a doctoral candidate at Hebrew University, Jerusalem: The Sky in Modern English Literature. Mr. Levy is the foremost independent astronomer in North America
2009 Chair, “Physical Contexts for Aesthetics and Theology,” ACMRS conference on The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
2009 Reader for Routledge
2009 “What Looking at Manuscripts Has Taught Me,” a presentation to the Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Committee Symposium
2008 Chair, “Tyranny and Marriage Laws in English Renaissance Drama,” ACMRS conference on Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
2007 Chair, “Studies of Early Modern Marriage,” at the joint annual ACMRS/RMMRA Interdisciplinary Conference, Tempe
2007 Chair, International Symposium: The History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Tucson
2007 Reader for Ashgate Publishing
2006 Reader for Studies in Renaissance History, Modern Philology
2005 Reader for Renaissance Quarterly, Modern Philology
2005 Appointed to the Advisory Board of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
2005 Chair, “The Rhetoric and Reality of Feast and Famine,” Annual Conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ASU: Feast, Famine, and Fasting: Food and Material Consumption in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
2004 Appointed Co-Editor of the series Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Brepols (Belgium)
2004 Chair, “Shakespeare and Chaucer” Session, Annual Conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ASU: Multi-Cultural Europe and Cultural Exchange
2003 Reader for Renaissance and Reformation
2002 Chair, “New Directions in Thomas Kyd Scholarship.” Renaissance Society of America, Scottsdale
2001-13 Editorial Board, Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature
2000 Chair, Renaissance Drama Session, ACMRS Interdisciplinary Conference, Tempe, Arizona
1998 Reader for Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies
1996 Reader for the editors of Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, volume 2: The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
1995 Chair, Shakespeare Session, Conference on Reinventing the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Tempe
1989 Reader for the University of Delaware Press
1984-86 Editorial Board, The Huntington Library Quarterly
EDUCATION
1972 Ph.D., English Literature, Harvard University
1968 M.A., English Literature, Harvard University
1967 B.A., English Literature, Loyola College, Maryland
MAJOR FIELD Shakespeare and the drama of his contemporaries; Elizabethan visual culture
HONORS
2014 University Distinguished Professor
2008 College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award
2007 William A. Ringler, Jr., Fellow at The Huntington Library
2006 International Travel Grant to attend the International Shakespeare
Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon
2004 International Travel Grant to attend the International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon
2003 Provost’s Author Support Fund Grant for publication of my new book published by Cambridge University Press
2001 International Travel Grant to attend the World Shakespeare Congress in Valencia, Spain
2000 Student Alumni Association Award for “outstanding efforts as an educator and a mentor.”
1996 University of Arizona Grant for research in London
1995 Mortar Board Award for Teaching and Service, University of Arizona 1995
1995 $1,000 prize awarded by the University of Delaware Press for the best book submitted in the field of Shakespeare studies
1986 Fellowship (summer), Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA
1981 Fellowship (summer) NEH Humanities Institute: Shakespeare in Performance, Folger
Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
1979 Fellowship (fall), Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California
1979 Fellowship (summer), Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1967-72 Graduate Prize Fellowship, Harvard University
1967-68 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Harvard University
LECTURES
2014 “Secrets of the Renaissance Garden.” A lecture for the University of Arizona Library, Special Collections, Early Book Lecture Series.
2012 “The Elizabethan House and the Italian Renaissance.” A lecture for the University of Arizona Library, Special Collections, Early Book Lecture Series
2012 “Stage Directions in Julius Caesar.” A lecture for the University of Arizona Theatre Arts production of Shakespeare’s play.
2011 “Shakespearean Tragedy and the Galileo Connection.” Address to the Stanford University Club.
2011 “Galileo, Shakespeare, and King Lear.” Address to Phi Beta Kappa.
2010 Stars in Their Eyes: Galileo Meets Shakespeare, film project, Shakespeare consultant.
2010 TV interview about Shakespeare’s popularity today: Arizona Illustrated (PBS).
2007 Filmed interview in Flagstaff for the Arizona Regents Reach Out Program on teaching Shakespeare in the public schools: “Romeo and Juliet and the Re-emergence of Imagery Studies in the Analysis of Performance.”
2005 TV Interview about new biographies of Shakespeare: Arizona Illustrated (PBS).
2005 “The Many Faces of Elizabeth I,” an address about portraits of the Queen delivered at a public symposium accompanying an exhibit by the Newberry Library and called “Elizabeth: Ruler & Legend,” Scottsdale Public Library.
1997 Address to the Harvard Club of Southern Arizona: “Opening Season at the New Globe Theater in London”
Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association, Marlowe Society of America, Renaissance Society of America, Shakespeare Association of America, Renaissance Conference of Southern California
Extramural
2013 Reader for the University of South Carolina Press
2012 Seminar Chair: Visual Studies and Early Modern Drama, Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America
2012 Chair: “The Sensuality of Sound and Female Embodiment,” ACMRS Conference on Erotica and the Erotic in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Tempe
2012 Evaluation of a candidate for tenure at Florida International University
2011 Reader for Modern Philology
2011 Chair, “Shakespeare in Rhetorical and Economic Contexts,” ACMRS Conference on Performance and Theatricality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Tempe
2010 Chair, “Patronage and Politics in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” ACMRS conference on Humanity and the Natural World
2009 Evaluation of the dissertation of David H. Levy, a doctoral candidate at Hebrew University, Jerusalem: The Sky in Modern English Literature. Mr. Levy is the foremost independent astronomer in North America
2009 Chair, “Physical Contexts for Aesthetics and Theology,” ACMRS conference on The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
2009 Reader for Routledge
2009 “What Looking at Manuscripts Has Taught Me,” a presentation to the Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Committee Symposium
2008 Chair, “Tyranny and Marriage Laws in English Renaissance Drama,” ACMRS conference on Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
2007 Chair, “Studies of Early Modern Marriage,” at the joint annual ACMRS/RMMRA Interdisciplinary Conference, Tempe
2007 Chair, International Symposium: The History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Tucson
2007 Reader for Ashgate Publishing
2006 Reader for Studies in Renaissance History, Modern Philology
2005 Reader for Renaissance Quarterly, Modern Philology
2005 Appointed to the Advisory Board of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
2005 Chair, “The Rhetoric and Reality of Feast and Famine,” Annual Conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ASU: Feast, Famine, and Fasting: Food and Material Consumption in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
2004 Appointed Co-Editor of the series Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Brepols (Belgium)
2004 Chair, “Shakespeare and Chaucer” Session, Annual Conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ASU: Multi-Cultural Europe and Cultural Exchange
2003 Reader for Renaissance and Reformation
2002 Chair, “New Directions in Thomas Kyd Scholarship.” Renaissance Society of America, Scottsdale
2001-13 Editorial Board, Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature
2000 Chair, Renaissance Drama Session, ACMRS Interdisciplinary Conference, Tempe, Arizona
1998 Reader for Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies
1996 Reader for the editors of Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, volume 2: The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
1995 Chair, Shakespeare Session, Conference on Reinventing the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Tempe
1989 Reader for the University of Delaware Press
1984-86 Editorial Board, The Huntington Library Quarterly