Literature of the Sea
Ph.D. Cornell University
dan.brayton@mysticseaport.org
860-572-5302 ext. 5049

Selected Publications, Research Interests, and Teaching and Professional Experiences
(as of December, 2005)

Education

Cornell University, Ph.D. in English Literature, January 2001.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill., M.A. in English Literature, May 1994.

Williams College, B.A. in Literary Studies, Cum Laude, June 1992

Publications

"Angling in the Lake of Darkness: Possession, Dispossession, and the Politics of 'Discoverie' in King Lear." English Literary History (ELH) 70.2. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

"Robert Greene." British Writers. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003.

"Anne Bradstreet." The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Parini. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

"Utopia." British Classics. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003.

Review: "Approaches To Teaching Hamlet," Forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Fall 2003.

"Christopher Marlowe." British Writers: Retrospective Supplement I. Ed. Jay Parini. Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. Pp. 199-214.

"The Genesis of Deva." WoodenBoat 157 (November/December 2000). Pp. 88-93.

"The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum." WoodenBoat 157 (November/December 2000). Pp. 98-101.

Forthcoming: "Richard Brome." British Writers. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribners Sons.

"Philip Massinger." British Writers. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribners Sons.

"Aphra Behn". British Writers. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Scribners.

Conference Papers

"Disorientation and Utopianism in The Tempest. Seminar Participant, Shakespeare Association of American Annual Convention, Southampton, Bermuda, April 6-8, 2005.

"Shipping the Niniversity to Southwark: University and Theater in Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay." Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, New York, December 29, 2002.

"Of Coney-catching and Lost Sheep: the Metaphorics of Husbandry in Prose Tracts of Robert Greene." Narrative: An International Conference. April 11-13, 2002, Lansing, MI.

"Towards a Theory of Adaptation." Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) Annual Conference, March 21-23, 2002, Minneapolis.

"Visual Narratives and Erased Itineraries: Reading a 17th Century Mappa Mundi." Group For Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Nov. 15-17, 2001.

"Time and the Uncanny in The Winter's Tale." Group For Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Annual Conference, New Orleans, Nov. 16-20, 2000.

"'To Possess the Greatest Demon': Possession and Ritual Violence in The Duchess of Malfi." Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) Annual Conference, Montreal, April 2000.

"Mapping the Monstrous in King Lear." "The Poetics of Space," Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Annual Conference, SUNY Binghamton, March 2000.

"Country-House Poems and the Discourse of Enclosure." Group For Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Annual Conference, Coral Gables, FL, October 6-10, 1999.

"Hedge-Breaking Prose: Ranter Rhetoric and the English Revolution." Cornell Graduate Roundtable, April 14,1999.

Invited Lectures

"Scholarship at Sea: Finding a Place for Maritime Literature". Williams/Middlebury Alumni Chapters of Rhode Island Lecture. Providence Athenaeum, Providence, Rhode Island. April 28, 2005.

"King Lear: Tragedy of Embodiment". Literature 101 Symposium, Middlebury College, October 2005.

"Three Readings—Make that Four—of Shakespeare's The Tempest". Literature 101 Symposium, Middlebury College, February 2003.

"Mapping Nowhere: Cartography and Utopianism in Shakespeare's The Tempest." Abernethy Lecture, Middlebury College, November 2002.

"Witchcraft and Demonism in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi." Literature 101 Symposium, Middlebury College, October 2001.

"Poetic Geography: Thomas More's Utopia and Renaissance Cartography." Sea Education Association (SEA), Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, July 29, 2001.

"An Introduction to Birmingham School Cultural Studies." Cornell University, March 1997.

"Shakespeare and Renaissance Cartography." Book and Bowl Society, Ithaca, NY, April 1996.

Fellowships and Awards

Guilford Dissertation Prize (Runner-up), Cornell University, Spring 2001.
Martin Sampson Award for Excellence in Teaching, Cornell University, Fall 2000.
Cornell University Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2000.
Tuition Fellowship, The School for Criticism and Theory, Cornell, July-Aug. 1998.
Mellon Fellowship, Cornell University, 1995-1996; Spring 1998.
Cornell University Tuition Scholarship, 1995-1998; Fall 2000.
Hollis Award (Best Master's Thesis), UNC-Chapel Hill, 1994.
Graduate Fellowship in English, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1993-1994.

Teaching Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor (Spring 2001-2003); Visiting Instructor (Fall 1999-Spring 2001), Middlebury College:
"Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy," (Lecture), Spring 2003.
"Voyage to Nowhere: Utopias and Dystopias" (Senior Seminar) Fall 2002.
"The Interpretation of Literature" (Sophomore Survey), Fall 2002.
"An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory" (Directed Study) Fall 2001, 2002.
"An Introduction to Cultural Studies" (Directed Study) Fall 2001.
"Semiotics, Structuralism, Post-structuralism," (Directed Study) Spring 2001.
"Embodiments: Modern and Early Modern Drama," (Lecture) Spring 2001.
"Senior Comprehensive Program," January 2000, 2001, 2002.
"Shakespeare For All Majors," (Lecture) Spring 2000.
"The Reading of Literature," Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003.
"Foundations of English Literature," Fall 1999.

Instructor, Cornell University Freshman Writing Seminars:
"Books that Changed the World," Spring 1999; Fall 1998.
"Witchcraft and Possession," Fall 1997.
"Shakespeare," Spring, 1997; Fall 1996.

Teaching Assistant, Cornell University:
"Cultural Studies," with Barbara Cornell, Fall 1998.
"Major Poets," with Roger Gilbert, Spring 1997.
"Shakespeare on Film," with Timothy Murray, Spring 1996.

Instructor, UNC-Chapel Hill Writing Program:
English 12, "Writing Across the Curriculum," Spring 1995.
English 11, "Introduction to College Writing," Fall 1994.
English 10, "Beginning Composition," Fall 1994.
Upward Bound (a UNC-affiliated program for high school students), 1993.

Service

Director, The Zoo Story, by Edward Albee, Middlebury College, March-April 2000.
Director, Senior Comprehensive Program (A survey of English literature for Senior English Majors), Middlebury College, 2003-2004.
Proof-Reader, Working Papers in Political Science, Middlebury College (Aug. 2001-June 2002).
Proof-Reader, The Norton Shakespeare, for Prof. Walter Cohen, Cornell (Fall 1997).
Research Assistant, The Wordsworth Project, for Prof. Mark Reed, UNC-Chapel Hill (1994).

Professional Affiliations

Modern Language Association.
Shakespeare Association of America.
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies.

Languages

French: Fluent reading, speaking and comprehension.
Spanish: Reading, speaking, and comprehension.
Reading knowledge of Latin, Old English, Middle English.

References

Professor Walter Cohen, Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Comparative Literature, Cornell University.
Associate Professor Barbara Cornell, Department of English, Cornell University.
Professor John Elder, Chair, Department of English, Middlebury College.
Professor Timothy Murray, Department of English, Cornell University.