1945
Born to Frederick and Muriel in Providence, RI.
1967
Earns a Bachelor of Arts in English from Loyola College in Maryland.
1968
Achieves a Master of Arts in English from Harvard University.
1972
Obtains a Doctor of Philosophy in English from Harvard University.
1973
Teaches as a professor of English at the University of Arizona and continues in the role.
1983
Publishes “Fortune and Elizabethan Tragedy.”
1995
Receives the Mortar Board Award for Teaching and Service from the University of Arizona.
1996
Publishes “Writing on the Renaissance Stage.”
2000
Receives the Student Alumni Association Award for “outstanding efforts as an educator and a mentor.”
2001
Serves on the editorial board of Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature until 2013.
2003
Publishes “Shakespeare’s Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters.”
2005
Is appointed to the advisory board of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
2008
Receives the College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award.
2009
Publishes “Masculinities and Femininities.”
2014
Is honored as a University Distinguished Professor by the University of Arizona.
2015
Publishes “English Drama from Everyman to 1660: Performance and Print.”
2021
Maintains membership with the Shakespeare Association of America and Renaissance Society of America.