CRAIG MICHAEL RUSTICI

Department of English

Hofstra University

Hempstead, New York 11549

Telephone: (516) 463-5465

Email: Craig.M.Rustici@Hofstra.edu

 
  EDUCATION  
1992 

Ph.D. Department of English, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Dissertation: "Politics, Empire, and Identity: Francis Bacon and the Construction of the Literary Statesman"

 
1987 M.A. Department of English,University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
M.A. Essay: "Re-Experiencing Bacon's Essays: 'Matter' and Not 'Words'"
 
1986 A.B. Department of English,Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania  
     
  ACADEMIC HONORS  
2003-05 NewYork State Speaker in the Humanities  
2001 2001 Hofstra University, DistinguishedFaculty Lecturer  
1996-99 HofstraUniversity, Center for Teaching Excellence  
1992 University of Chicago, Honors in the Doctoral Program  
1990-91 University of Chicago, Steiner-Rudolph Dissertation Year Fellowship  
1987 1987 University of Chicago, R. S. Crane Award for Scholarly Writing  
1987 University of Chicago, Honors in the Master's Program  
     
  TEACHING EXPERIENCE  
1998-Present Associate Professor--Department of English, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Courses: Composition, History of European Literature, Sixteenth-Century Literature,Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare, Studies in the Human Condition, Culture and Expression
 
1998-2005 Writing Center Director--Department of English, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York  
1992-1998 Assistant Professor--Department of English, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Courses: Composition, History of English Literature, History of European Literature, Sixteenth-Century Literature, Seventeenth-Century Literature, Shakespeare, Literature of Empire, Renaissance Others: American, Feminine, and Homosexual
 
1991-1992 Visiting Instructor--Department of English, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Courses: Composition, Introduction to Literature, Chaucer  
2000 Norman Maclean Lector--Department of English, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Course: Poetic Theory and Practice in the English Renaissance
 
1991 Course Assistant--Department of English, University of Chicago.
Course: History of English Literature
 
     
  PUBLICATIONS  
2006 The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England.(University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2006).  
2003 "'Ceste Nouvelle Papesse': Elizabeth I and the Specter of Pope Joan." Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman. Eds. Carole Levin, Debbie Barrett-Graves, and Jo Eldridge Carney (Ashgate: Burlington, Vermont and Aldershot, England, 2003).131-148.  
2000 "Gender, Disguise, and Usurpation: The Female Prelate (1680) and the Popish Successor." Modern Philology 98.2 (November 2000): 271-98.  
1999 "The Smoking Girl: Tobacco and the Representation of Mary Frith." Studies in Philology 96.2 (Spring 1999): 159-79.  
1999 "Muiopotmos:Spenser's 'Complaint' against Aesthetics." Spenser Studies 13(1999): 165-77.  
1997 "Sonnet Writing and Experiential Learning." College Teaching 45.1 (Winter 1997): 16-18.  
1995 "A Source for the 'Aethiop' in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis. " Notes and Queries 240 (1995): 366-67.  
1995 "Samuel Purchas." British Prose Writers of the Early Seventeenth Century, Ed. Clayton D. Lein. Vol. 151 of Dictionary of LiteraryBiography. 272-77.  
1992 "'The Great Sophism of All Sophisms'": Colonialist Redefinition in Bacon's Holy War." Renaissance and Reformation 16.4 (1992): 49-72.  
     
  PRESENTATIONS  
2006 Panelist on “E-Accessibility at Hostra.” Hofstra University. Hempstead, New York.  
2006 Post-Screening Discussion of the Film Pope Joan (1972). Rubin Museum of Art. New York, New York.  
2003 "'Scriptor Illustris”: What John Bale's Pope Joan Illustrates about Constructions of Literary History." Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America,Victoria, British Columbia.  
2003 "'Such a pretty what if': Diagnosing Pope Joan." Medieval Reading Group, Hofstra University.  
2002 "'Spotless soules now in one body': Francis Beaumont’s Apologia for Salmacis." Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota.  
2001 "Glass Houses: Why the Subjects of Queen Elizabeth Avoided the Subject of Pope Joan." Fall 2001 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Hofstra University.  
2001 2001 "'Such a pretty what if': Pope Joan and the Hermaphrodite Hypothesis." Meeting of the International Shakespeare Association, Valencia, Spain.  
2000 "'Ceste Nouvelle Papesse': Elizabeth I and the Problem of Historical Analogy."Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana.  
2000 "'CesteNouvelle Papesse': Elizabeth I and the Specter of Pope Joan." Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal, Quebec.  
1999 "'Mirror ofWomen': The Play of Gender in Dekker's The Whore of Babylon."
"Millennial Shakespeare: Performance/Text/Scholarship" Conference, Hofstra University.
 
1997 "The Smoking Girl: Tobacco and the Representation of Mary Frith." Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, D. C.  
1996 "TheTirsan's Wife: Gender, Ritual, and Reproduction in the New Atlantis." Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Bloomington, Indiana.  
1995 "Do It Yourself: The Effectiveness of Experiential Learning in English Literature Courses." Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, San Diego, California.  
1994 "'Her Virgin Portion Not Empaired': Gender in Francis Bacon's Colonialist and Scientific Discourse." Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Rochester, New York.  
1992 "'Has a New Master--Get a New Man!': Voluntary Subjection and The Discovery of Guiana." English Renaissance Prose Conference, Purdue University.  
     
  PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS  
  Shakespeare Association of America  
  Modern Language Association