Jan Stirm

 

Assistant Professor of English    122 East Grant Ave

University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI 54701

Eau Claire, WI   54702-4004   (715) 834-2933

(715) 836-3016                     email: JStirm@uwec.edu

FAX:  (715) 836-5996

 

Education

Ph.D.  English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995

M.A.  English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992

B.S.  Zoology, University of California, Davis, 1982

 

Dissertation     

“Representing Women's Relationships:  Intersections of Class, Race and Generation in English Drama, 1580-1642”

Directed by A. R. Braunmuller; Arthur L. Little, Jr. and Muriel McClendon, readers

 

Honors and Awards

TRIP (Time Reassignment Incentive Program) Grant (for Spring 2001)

Department of English Travel Grant, UCLA (1995)

Center for the Study of Women Travel Grant, UCLA (1995)

James E. Phillips Memorial Dissertation Fellowship (1994-1995)

Chancellor's Fellowship, UCLA (1990-1991)

 

Fields of Interest

Early modern culture and literature

Shakespeare and early modern drama

Feminist Theory and Women’s Studies

Electronic Texts

 

Research

“‘For solace a twinne-like sister’: Teaching Themes of  Sisterhood in As You Like It and Beyond.”                        Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (1996): 374-386.

 

“‘This strumpet serves her own ends’: Class and Service in Early Modern Drama.” (Chapter in Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Drama.  Ed. Alexander Leggatt and Karen Bamford.  Forthcoming from MLA.)

 

Review of Women in Early Modern England.  By Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford.  (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1998.)  Quidditas (Forthcoming)

 

“Speaking (of) Women in Macbeth.”  In preparation for Theater Journal.

 

Conference Papers

“'This  Strumpet Serves Her Own Ends':  Enacting Women and Class Relations in The Second Maiden's Tragedy.”  Shakespeare Association of America;  Cleveland, 19-21 March 1998.

 

“Consuming Conversions: Elizabeth Cary and the surveillance of religious fasting.”  Modern Language Association; Toronto, 27-30 December 1997.

 

“(Un)Lock(e)ing the Sonnet.”  Midwest Modern Language Association Convention; Chicago, 6-8 November 1997.

 

 

“Staging Women’s Work: Waiting Gentlewomen on the Early Modern English Stage.”  Work: Reality and                                 Representation Conference; UC Santa Barbara, 16-17 February 1996.

 

“Speaking (of) Women in Macbeth.”   Northeast Conference on British Studies; Brown University,

30 September 1995.

 

“Zanche Between in The White Devil.”   Shakespeare Association of America; Chicago,  25 March 1995.

 

“‘Naive Lips’:  The Effect of Jesus as Other in the Towneley Buffeting.”   Medieval Association of  the Pacific;  UC Irvine, 21 February 1992.

 

Other Conference Activities

“Teaching Race in the Renaissance” Workshop, Shakespeare Association of America; Montreal, 5-8 April 2000.

Panel Convener and Respondent, “Nurturing Mothers in Early Modern Europe.”    Modern Language Associatio; San Francisco, 27-30 December 1998.

“Teaching Writing: Humanities / Science and Mathematics / Critical Thinking.”  Workshop presentation to                                 the Carver Technology Institute, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois, 27 May 1998.

Participant, “Discovering What Works in General Education.”  Association of American Colleges and Universities; Tampa, Florida, 12-14 February 1998.

“Using the Computer Classroom for Composition.”  Workshop presentation with Brigit Sparling to the Carver Technology Institute, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois, 19 August 1997.

Seminar Co-Chair (with Helen Ostovich, McMaster University): “Servants and Friends: Considering Female Hierarchies / Female Relationships.”  Shakespeare Association of America; Washington, 27-29 March 1997.

“Feminist Pedagogy” Workshop, Shakespeare Association of America; Los Angeles, 7-14 April 1996.

 

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (1999-present)

Freshman Composition (English 110; including for First Year Experience)

Introduction to Literature (English 150)

Poetry (English 276)

Drama (English 277)

The Renaissance (English 354)

Shakespeare (English 357)

 

Assistant Professor of English, Monmouth College (1996-1999)

British Survey I

Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories  (“Feminist Approaches to Shakespeare”)

Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances (“Shakespeare and Theory,” “Shakespeare and Social History”)

20th Century British Literature (“Gender and Nationalism/Writing and Empowerment”)

Special Topics in Literature and Related Areas (“Early Modern Drama,” “Medieval and Early Modern Narratives”)

Research Methods

Women, Justice, and Equality (Senior Seminar in Women’s Studies)

Composition and Literature

Freshman Seminar

Independent Studies (Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Marxism)