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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Stephen Whitworth
Associate Professor of English
106C Bakeless Center for the Humanities
Department of English
Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Office tel: 570-389-4717
Home tel: 570-389-9680
Email: swhitwor@husky.bloomu.edu, or Malvolio29@aol.com
Education:
June, 2008: Postdoctoral certification in Psychoanalysis and Critical Writing, Washington D.C.
Center for Psychoanalysis
August, 1997, Ph.D. English, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Major Emphasis: early modern non-dramatic literature
Minor Emphases: Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, psychoanalysis.
April, 1994, M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Michigan.
June, 1991, B.A. English and French, University of South Alabama.
Book Project: Ravage and the Baroque: Masculine Sexuality and the Seventeenth-Century
Devotional Lyric. (two of five chapters completed).
Dissertation Title: The Name of the Ancients: Humanist Homoerotics and the Signs of
Pastoral.
Description of Project: The Name of the Ancients argues that classical pastoral acts as the
philosophical unconscious of Renaissance theories of language and signification.
Publications:
“Spell It Wrong to Read It Right: Crashaw, Psychosis, and the Baroque Poetics
Of the Letter,” forthcoming in Madness and Writing, eds. Patricia Gherovici
And Manya Steinkoler, Routledge.
“Teaching as Collage: Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy,” forthcoming in monograph
ed. Martine Fourre, Paris.
“Sidney, Lacan, and the Perverse Phantasy of Pastoral,” special issue of
The Shakespeare Yearbook entitled “The Lacanian Renaissance,”

Spring 2010, eds. Dr. Douglass Brooks (Texas A &M University) and
Dr. Shirley Sharon-Zisser (Tel Aviv University).
“Ravage: Between Masculine Sexuality and Analytic Desire,”
Sexual Identity and the Unconscious, EPFCL Press, 2010. Ed. Colette Soler.
“When Both the Medical and the Analytic Cut Fail, There is Love,” Et Lacan 1.4
2009, pp. 15-27.
“Rethinking the Archaic: Montrelay, Mask-ulinity, and the Analyst as (M)Other,”
The Journal for Lacanian Studies 4:2, pp. 325-349. Ed. Prof. Dany Nobus
(Brunel University, London).
“Fear of Falling: Multiple Sclerosis, Potential Space, and the Ghosts of the Real,”
New Directions Journal 3.3 (2008).
“Far From Being: Rhetoric and Dream-Work in Dickenson’s Arisbas (1594),”
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
11.1.167-194 (1999).
“Passing for Mean: Barnfield and the Aristotelian Poetics of Copulation,” Rhetoric
Society Quarterly 29.3.71-86 (1999).
“Sexual Personae: Guerrilla Scholarship or Monkey Business?,” L’Esprit
Createur 32.4. review article. (1994)
“Where Excess Begs All: Shakespeare, Freud, and the Diacritics of Melancholy,”
Included in Ashgate volume entitled Suffering Ecstasy: Critical
Essays on Shakespeare’s ‘A Lover’s Complaint,’ ed. Prof. Shirley Sharon-Zisser, Tel Aviv
University, April 2006.
Critical Introduction, “Generating Dialogue on Shakespeare’s ‘A Lover’s Complaint,’”
Suffering Ecstasy: Critical Essays on A Lover’s Complaint,
co-authored with Prof. Shirley Sharon-Zisser, Tel Aviv University.
from Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. April, 2006.
“Gender and Figure in the Arts of the Renaissance,” co-authored with Prof. Andrea
Pearson, conference proceedings for November 2003 “Attending to Early Modern
Women” conference, University of Delaware Press (2005).
Conference Papers:
“Metalepsis and Allusion: Death of Metaphor, Reparative Play in Thomas Traherne’s
‘Infant Eye’”, invited keynote lecture at 2013 Conference on “Reading Medieval
And Renaissance Literature,” Tel Aviv University, Israel, March, 2013.

“Laughter of Delirium: Feminine Jouissance and the Theme of the Three Caskets in
The Merchant of Venice, invited lecture at Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups
Seminar at Fordham University, New York, April 2013.
“I Sing the Name Which None Can Say: Crashaw, Psychosis, and the Baroque Poetics of
The Letter,” APW Seminar on “Madness and Psychoanalysis,” April 2012, Fordham
University, New York, NY.
“Teaching as Collage: Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy,” presented at “Traversing
Boundaries: Teaching Literature in the Community College and General Education
Classroom” conference at Borough of Manhattan Community College, April, 2012.
“Ravage: Between Masculine Sexuality and Analytic Desire,” bi-annual English-Speaking
Seminar of the international Ecole de Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ Lacanien,
Paris, France. July, 2009.
Invited panel respondent, “Lacan and the Agalma,” Annual APW (Affiliated Psychoanalytic
Workshops) conference, “On Love,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
April, 2008.
“Same Difference: Towards a Psychoanalytic Queer Theory,” presented at
Buffalo Symposium entitled “Impulses of the Perverse,” April 1994,
SUNY-Buffalo.
“The Dialectic of the Homotext and Intersubjectivity in Majesty Misled,”
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, February
1995, Mobile, AL.
“Fracturing the Narrator: Pronouns and Preterites in Barnfield’s Affectionate
Shepheard,” 1996 MLA Convention, Washington, D.C.
“Maps of Misreading in Marlowe’s Edward II,” February 1996, Medieval,
Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium, University of Miami, Coral Gables,
FL.
“Some Perversions of Pastoral: Melancholy, Rhetoric, and the Work of
Forgetting,” 1997 MLA Convention, Toronto.
“Comus and the Umbilics of Mask-ulinity” presented at International
Conference on Literature and Psychology, University of Siena,
Arezzo, Italy, July 2002.
“Affect and the Orifice: the Analyst as Primary Hallucination,”
presented at International Conference on Psychoanalysis and the
Emotions, University of Pennsylvania, October 2002.

“Gender and Figure in the Arts of the Renaissance,” panel co-organizer and participant,
“Attending to Early Modern Women” conference, University of Maryland, November
2003.
Major Translations (French to English):
“Religion, Psychoanalysis,” Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Stephen W. Whitworth,
Almanac of Psychoanalysis 5, July 2006. Ed. Yotvat Elderbaum.
“Jew as a Name,” Francois Regnault, trans. Stephen W. Whitworth, Almanac of Psychoanalysis
5, July 2006. Ed. Yotvat Elderbaum.
“One Comes Because One Doesn’t Have a Father, Yasmine Grasser, trans. Stephen W.
Whitworth. Almanac of Psychoanalysis 5, July 2006. Ed. Yotvat Elderbaum.
Professional Affiliations:
Member, Modern Language Association, Renaissance Society of America, Association for the
Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts,
Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workshops, Washington D.C. Center for Psychoanalysis,
Philadelphia Lacan Study Group. Member: Washington D.C. Forum of the Ecole de
Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ Lacanien.
Teaching Experience:
ENG 470: Twentieth Century Literary Theory, Bowling Green State University,
Winter 1999.
ENG 261: Mythology and Literature from Sumer to Virgil, Bowling Green State
University, Winter 1999.
ENG 200P: Literature and Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Winter 1999.
ENG 401: Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis, Bowling Green State University, Winter
1998.
ENG 301: Shakespeare, Bowling Green State University, Fall 1997-Winter 1999.
ENG 264/246: Survey of British Literature to 1760. Bowling Green State University,
Fall 1998; Bloomsburg University, Fall 2001.
ENG 261 Honors: World Literature to 1400. Fall 1998, Bowling Green State
University.
ENG 200P: Literature and Fantasy, Bowling Green State University, winter 1998.
ENG 200P: The Literature of Laughter, BGSU, Fall 1997.

ENG 111: Introductory Composition, BGSU, fall 1997.
EH 370: Renaissance Poetry, University of Michigan, Winter 1997, Spring 2000.
EH 125: Introductory Composition, Michigan, spring 1997, winter 1993,
Fall 1992, Fall 1999.
EH 220: Intensive Writing for Transfer Students, Michigan, Fall 1996.
GB 191: Great Books, Michigan, Fall 1992.
GB 192: Great Books, Michigan, Spring 1993.
EH 124: Literature and Writing, Michigan, Fall 1994, Fall 1999.
FR 101: Elementary French, Fall 1991, Winter 1992.
ENG 363: Shakespeare, Bloomsburg University, Fall 2000, Fall 2002.
ENG 226: European Literature to 1450, Bloomsburg University, Fall/Spring 2000;
Most recently taught Spring 04.
ENG 365: Milton, Bloomsburg University, Spring 2002.
HIS 304: World Mythology and the Archetypes of Literature, Fall 2002.
ENG 203: Approaches to Literary Study, Fall 2003, 2004.
ENG 498: Seminar, Literature and Psychoanalysis, Spring 2005, and Fall 2008.
Teaching Interests: Renaissance literature, psychoanalysis, Milton, literature and mythology,
the metaphysical poets.
Service:
Member, Literature Curriculum Revision Committee, Department of English, Bowling Green
State University, 1997-1998.
Member, Undergraduate Committee, Dept. of English, Bowling Green State University, 1998-
1999.
Member, Medievalist Search Committee, Dept. of English, Bloomsburg University, Fall 2000.
Member, Library Liaison Committee, Dept. of English, Bloomsburg University, Fall-Spring
2000; Fall 2001.

Member, English Department Curriculum and Planning Committee, Bloomsburg, 2001-2003.
Member, APSCUF Gender Issues Committee, Bloomsburg, Fall 2001-2003
Member, Bloomsburg Philosophy Department Evaluation Committee, 2001-2003.
Member, Bloomsburg Composition 2 Placement Committee, 2001-2002.
Member, Bloomsburg Honors Advisory Committee, 2002-2005; 2005-2008.
Member, English Department Evaluation Committee, Bloomsburg University, 2002-2004.
Advisor, Bloomsburg University chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, Fall 2000-Spring 2006.
Representative to Bloomsburg University Forum, 2004-2005.
Chair, Medievalist Search Committee, 2004-2005.
Member: English Department Tenure Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2009.
Member: Mass Communications Department Evaluation Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2013.
Member: English Department Curriculum Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2013.
Member: English Department Shakespeare Search Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
Teacher, Advisor, and Liaison to the Washington D.C. Forum of the EPFCL, 2008-present.
Member, Department of Mass Communications Evaluation Committee, 2012-present.
Member, Department of Mass Communications Tenure Committee, 2012-present.
Member, Department of Mass Communications Promotion Committee, 2012-present.
Languages: French (reading, writing, speaking), Latin.
Academic Honors/Awards:
University of Michigan Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Fall 1995 to Summer 1996; Michigan One-
Term Dissertation Fellowship, Winter 1995; Distinguished Graduate Student Instructor Citation,
January 1995. Bloomsburg College of Liberal Arts Special Initiatives Grant, Fall 2001.
Recipient: Dean’s Salute to Excellence, Bloomsburg University, Fall 2003. Recipient:
Bloomsburg University Teaching and Learning Enhancement Center’s Award for Excellence in
Teaching, May 2005. Postgraduate Certification Candidate, Washington Psychoanalytic
Institute, 2006-2008. Bloomsburg University Special Initiatives Grant, Fall 2005. Faculty

Professional Development Grant, Spring 2012; Faculty Professional Development Grant, Spring
2013.
References:
Shirley Sharon-Zisser, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Tel Aviv University; Instructor,
Tel Aviv Center for Lacanian Studies; shir3@post.tau.ac.il.
Fink, Bruce, Professor of Psychology, Duquesne University, and Lacanian analyst. Tel:
412-859-3997. fink@duq.edu.
Nobus, Dany, Professor of Psychology, Brunel University, London. Tel:
01895265944. Dany.Nobus@brunel.ac.uk.
Gherovici, Patricia. Lacanian analyst and Coordinator, Philadelphia Lacan Study
Group. Tel: 215-985-0556. pgherovici@aol.com