 Sidney L. Sondergard 811 Buck Road Madrid, NY 13660 Telephone: (315) 322-5317 Department of English St. Lawrence University Canton, NY 13617 Telephone (315) 379-5152 sson@stlawu.edu Education 1981-86: Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Proficiency in Renaissance Literature, Medieval Drama, and Modern Drama. G.P.A.: 4.0. Dissertation: Bruno's Dialogue War on Pedantry: An Elizabethan Dramatic Motif. Director: Jackson I. Cope. Summer, 1982: Madingley Hall, Madingley, England. Attended the Cambridge University Extramurals Board program on Art and Literature of Tudor England. 1978-81: M.A., English, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Master's Thesis: "Christian Stoicism": The Neostoic Philosophy of Chapman's Cato. Director: George E. Rowe, Jr. Oral defense passed "with distinction." G.P.A.: 4.0. 1973-76: B.A., English, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Graduated cum laude, with honors in English. G.P.A.: 3.48. Teaching Experience ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor, 1986-1992 Associate Professor, 1992-1998 Professor, 1998-2006 Craig Professor of English, 2006-present Survey of English Literature to 1700 Critical Study of Literature Introduction to College Writing Introduction to Fiction Renaissance Poetry Milton The Lure of Violence in Film and Literature Allegory Spenser and Milton: Parallel Studies Senior Seminar: John Donne Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories Archetypes of Western Mythology Shakespeare: Tragedies Elizabethan/Jacobean Drama Techniques of Screenwriting Advanced Screenwriting Workshop Literature of Magic and Witchcraft Introduction to Film Studies Fear and the Inexpressible: The Fiction and Non-Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft It's the End of the World as We Know It: Millennialist Literature Chivalry and the Art of Deception in World Literature Cyberpunk and Post-Industrial Decay in Film and Literature The Sociopathic Personality in Literature and Film Metaphysical Mysteries: Narratives of Indeterminacy in Literature and Film Methods of Critical Analysis: The Confidence (Wo)man in Literature and Film Methods of Critical Analysis: The Traveling Companion Methods of Critical Analysis: Lucha Libre—Myths, Masks, and Metaphors Milton and Popular Culture Film Theory Narrative Animals—The Art of the Literary Bestiary The Literature of Confucius and Confucian Tradition FYP: The Human Condition: Self, Society, and Nature FYP: The Human Condition: Inquiry, Reflection, Voice FYP: Breaking the Codes: The Cultural Manufacture of the Individual FYP: The Wisdom of the Ancient World FYP: Variant Perspectives: The Ancient East and West FYS: Hong Kong Film Culture and Chinese National Identity European Studies: Ideological Patterns in European Popular Culture JUNIOR/SENIOR INDEPENDENT PROJECTS The Economics of Theatrical Style: Popular Tragedy and Intertextuality, 1586-1603 (Allison Dakin) [Spring 2006] Screenwriting Project: “The Footnotes of J. Alfred Prufrock”—Author’s Script and Shooting Script (Andy Long) [Spring 2006] Screenwriting Project: “Scatterbrain” (Nick Johnson) [Spring 2006] Screenwriting Project: “Station Air”—Author’s Script and Shooting Script (Charlie Poekel) [Fall 2005] The Guangong Icon in Hong Kong Triad Films (Will Collins) [Spring 2005] Screenwriting Project: “Petrin Lookout Tower” (Clementine Vitek) [Spring 2005] Film Project: “The Death of Seasons” [40 min.] (Liam Harty and Chris Peterson) [Spring 2005] A Philosophical History of the Satanic Metaphor in Literary Culture (Will Collins) [Fall 2004] Graphic Novel Aesthetics and The Chronicles of New Texas: Soviet York (Chris Peterson) [Fall 2004] Screenwriting Project: Documentary, “Fight from the North” (Graham Robinson) [Fall 2004] Screenwriting Project: “Van Dieman’s Land” (Liam Harty) [Fall 2004] Ragnarok and Roll: Mythic Archetypes of Nordic Popular Music (Will Collins) [Spring 2004] Screenwriting Project: “The Fork Sisters” (Katya Demurenko) [Spring 2004] Screenwriting Project: “Adirondack French Louis” (Tim Gallivan) [Spring 2004] Screenwriting Project: “Blades of Fury” (Travis Wyman) [Spring 2004] Screenwriting Project: “Kick Start” (Josh Wyman) [Spring 2004] The Modern and Post-Modern Grotesque: Coincidentia oppositorum (Will Collins) [Fall 2003] The Papyrus of Ani: The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Brettan Deweese) [Fall 2003, for Anthopology] Screenwriting Project: “Wanderer” (Dave Welch) [Fall 2003] Screenwriting Project: "Old Edmund Young" (Josh Wyman) [Spring 2003] Screenwriting Project: "Chili Today, Hot Tamale" (Andy Bates) [Spring 2003] Screenwriting Project: "Queenpin" (Travis Wyman) [Spring 2003] The Theatre of Blood: Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedies (Lisa Gallo) [Speech and Theatre; Fall 2002] "Othello": An Original Shooting Script and Film Adaptation of William Shakespeare's Tragedy (Derek Hall) [Spring 2002] "The Virgin of Menace": An Original Blank Verse Tragedy (David Pinkowski and Andrew Wadoski) [Spring 2000] Screenwriting Project: "One Store Town" (Ian Russell) [Spring 2000] Screenwriting Project: "Snow Queen" (Tessa Mellas) [Spring 2000] Screenwriting Project: “U.S. Limited” (Josh Wennrich) [Spring 1998] Screenwriting Project: “Harmony” (Scott Kramer) [Spring 1998] Screenwriting Project: “The Masterpiece” (William Bradley) [Fall 1997] Screenwriting Project: “Gallant Knights” (Chip Haro) [Fall 1997] Screenwriting Project: “Égalité” (Brian Stutchell) [Spring 1997] Screenwriting Project: “Dirty” (Duncan Birmingham) [Spring 1997] Screenwriting Project: “Can’t Worry” (Craig Adams) [Fall 1996] Theoretical Approaches to Shakespeare's Sonnets (Jason Searles) [Spring 1996] Screenwriting Project: "The Devil's Triangle" (Jon Pirozzi) [Spring 1996] The Ovidian Anti-Feminist Tradition and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Robin Werner) [Fall 1994] The Tyrant in Shakespeare—A Creative Synthesis (Grady O'Hara) [S&T 490, Spring 1993] Patterns of Jungian Archetypes in the Narrative Myths of H.P. Lovecraft (Jennifer Jackson) [Spring 1993] The Dilemmas of Translation, and Bilingual Poetic Composition (Martha Cardona) [Spring 1992] Creative Synthesis of Greco-Roman Mythology (Kathryn Chaney) [Spring 1992] Behavioral Conditioning and Children's Literature (Cheryl Giarruso) [Fall 1991] Psychoanalytic Readings of Three Works by Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and Brought to Light) (Val Potter) [Spring 1990] Portraits of Merlin in the Arthurian Legends (Kim Cattat) [Fall 1990] The Comedies and Masques of Ben Jonson (Alynda O'Reilly) [Spring 1990] Structuralist Analysis of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Novels and Related Poetry (Litz Brown) [Fall 1989] Post-Structuralist and Post-Modernist Mythmaking in Contemporary Comic Books (Scott Stearns) [Spring 1988] Feminine Archetypes in Biblical Narratives (Kathleen Cassedy) [Fall 1987] SENIOR HONORS PROJECTS Woyzeck: A Dramatic Reinvention (Andy Long) [Fall 2006-Spring 2007] Firelight: A Novella (Brian Kenna) [Fall 2005-Spring 2006] "Why should the worm intrude the maiden's bud?”: Semantic Manipulation in William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece (Alison Mills) [Fall 1999-Spring 2000] Death Makes a Play: An Original Screenplay and Film (David Amiott) [Fall 1999-Spring 2000] “Reflections”: An Original Screenplay (Matthew Keville) [Fall 1998-Spring 1999] A Study of the American Gothic Through Analysis and Imitation (Matthew Minneman) [Fall 1998- Spring 1999] A Critical Casebook for "The Enchanting World of Cacti" (Meaghan Cuffe) [Fall 1996-Spring 1997] “Of Ladies, Cavaliers, of Love and War": The Changing Roles of Women in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Robin Werner) [Fall 1994-Spring 1995] Tongues Removed: A Study in Poetic Translation of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Martha Cardona) [Fall 1992-Spring 1993] "Dost call me witch?": Women and Witchcraft in English Renaissance Drama (Thayer Talbott) [Fall 1989-Spring 1990] “In the Flesh, the Text”: A Reading of Clive Barker's Books of Blood (Scott Stearns) [Spring 1989] "This jest bites sore!": A Critical Study of Cruel Humor in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (Anne Tanski) [Spring 1989] UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Assistant Lecturer, 1981-1986 Expository Writing for Engineers Writing Workshop Film and Literature: The Myth of the Hero USC Model Literacy Project English and American Literature Since 1900 Dreams and Myth: The Psychoanalysis of Mythology Film and Literature: Narrative Forms WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY Teaching Assistant, 1979-1981 Freshman Composition Professional Activity PUBLICATIONS -- BOOKS Sharpening her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers. London: Associated University Presses / Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 2002. The Cabala of Pegasus: An Annotated Translation of Giordano Bruno's Cabala del cavallo pegaseo (1585). New Haven: Yale UP, 2002. [co-authored with Madison U. Sowell] An Index of Characters in English Printed Drama to the Restoration, Revised Edition: Including Latin Plays and Plays "Lost" to Print. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. [co-authored with Thomas L. Berger and William C. Bradford] PUBLICATIONS -- ARTICLES A. REFEREED “Cultural Synthesis in Research Pedagogy: The Puzzle of George Crabbe’s “The Voluntary Insane” Forum on Public Policy Online. Winter 2007. 22 Jan. 2006 <http://www.forumonpublicpolicy. com/archive07/sondergard.pdf>. "Mapping the Lovecraft Idiolect: Iterative Structures and Autosemiotization as Reading Strategies." The American Journal of Semiotics 18 (2006): 87-106. “Young and Dangerous(ly Traditional): Reading Guangong and the Act of Obeisance in Hong Kong Films Since 1986.” Studies in the Humanities 32.1 (2005): 50-73. [co-authored with Will G. Collins] "Unable to Queer the Deal: William S. Burroughs's Negotiations with 'Eugene Allerton.'" Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44.2 (2003): 144-156. "Screaming Lord Byron: The Poet as Film Icon." Byronic Negotiations. Ed. Katrina Bachinger. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 214-45. [co-authored with Ramona M. Ralston] “Bio(de)pic-tions of Mary Shelley: The Romantic Woman Artist as Mother of Monsters.” Biofiction(s): Rewriting Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama. Ed. Werner Huber and Martin Middeke. Rochester: Camden House [and Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer], 1999. 201-13. [co-authored with Ramona M. Ralston] “Screening Byron: The Idiosyncrasies of Film Myth.” Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture. Ed. Frances Wilson. London: Macmillan, [and New York: St. Martin’s] 1999. 137-53. [co-authored with Ramona M. Ralston] "Rediscovering William Lauder’s Poetic Advocacy of the Poor.” Studies in Scottish Literature 29 (1997): 158-173. "'To scape the rod': Resistance to Humanist Pedagogy and the Sign of the Pedant in Tudor England." Studies in Philology 91 (1994): 270-282. "'To schaw thare reif, thift, murthour, and mischeif': The Semiosis of Violence in David Lindsay's Verse." Celtic Connections. Ed. David Lampe. Acta 16 (1993 [for 1989]): 113-126. "'This Giant Has Wounded Me As Well As Thee': Reading Bunyan's Violence and/as Authority." The Witness of Times: Manifestations of Ideology in the Seventeenth Century. Ed. Katherine E. Zeller and Gerald J. Schiffhorst. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1993). 218-237, 288-291. "'It must be a personating of himself': Misreading and Autosemiotization in Timon of Athens." American Journal of Semiotics 7 (1990): 69-88. "Samuel Foote and the Comic Regeneration of Thomas Weston." Theatre Survey 30 (1989): 69-83. "The Dramaturgical Intention of Cruelty in the Cornish Ordinalia." Mediaevalia: A Journal of Medieval Studies 11 (1985 [1989]): 169-186. B. INVITED Review Essay: Constance C. Relihan, Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse. American Journal of Semiotics (forthcoming). Review: Robert Markley, The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730. Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 1307-8. Review: Benjamin Griffin, Playing the Past: Approaches to English Historical Drama 1385-1600. Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003): 548-50. "Of Swifts and Specters: North Country Gothic in Irving Bacheller's Eben Holden." Bulletin of the Friends of the Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries 30 (2001): 8-19. Review: Linda Woodbridge, The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and Magical Thinking. Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 613-614. Review Essay: Douglas Bruster, Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare; Lars Engle, Shakespearean Pragmatism; and François Laroque, Shakespeare's Festive World. TDR (The Drama Review) 39 (1995): 158-164. "George Colman the Elder." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 89: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Dramatists. Ed. Paula R. Backscheider. 3rd Series. New York: Gale Research Inc., 1989. 38-60. "Thomas Holcroft." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 89: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Dramatists. Ed. Paula R. Backscheider. 3rd Series. New York: Gale Research Inc., 1989. 181-197. "Literacy in the Kitchen." Workplace Literacy: Essays from the Model Literacy Project. Ed. Michael Holzman and Olga Connolly. Sacramento: California Conservation Corps, 1986. ERIC Document 286068. C. PROCEEDINGS “When Lines Get Crossed: Cyberphobia, Cyberphilia, and Technoerotica in Tetsuo: The Iron Man.” Semiotics 1998. Ed. C.W. Spinks and John Deely. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. 213-22. “[Liliana Cavani’s Unpopular Filmmaking:] Erotic Creation and Creative Eroticism.” Semiotics 1997. Ed. C.W. Spinks. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. 139-50. "The Unconscious Structured Like a Comic Book: (Re)constructive Psychology and Matt Howarth's Bugtown Mythos." Semiotics 1992. Ed. John Deely. New York: University Press of America, 1993. 288-299. "'This foot hath got a Mouth and lippes': Richard Crashaw's Bodies and the Poetics of Visceral Piety." Semiotics 1990. Ed. Karen Haworth et al. New York: University Press of America, 1991. 133-42. "'Kill, and dissect me, Love': Donne's Violence and Necropsy as Structural Discourse." Semiotics 1989. Ed. John Deely et al. New York: University Press of America, 1990. 84-93. "'Pain is perfet misery': Reading the Miltonic Discourse of Violence." Semiotics 1988. Ed. Terry Prewitt et al. New York: University Press of America, 1989. 380-387. PUBLICATIONS -- LOCAL REVIEWS “On the Meaning of Fiction.” St. Lawrence 51 (1997): 22. Review of Richard Henry, Pretending and Meaning: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Fictional Discourse. ["Playing Academia, Circa 1610-1626."] St. Lawrence 50 (1990): 27. Review of Thomas L. Berger and Suzanne Gossett, eds., Jacobean Academic Plays. "The Essence of Glory: Paradise Lost and Milton's God." St. Lawrence 49 (1990): 37-38. Review of John Peter Rumrich, Matter of Glory: A New Preface to Paradise Lost. "Translating Neoplatonist Methodology." St. Lawrence 40 (1987): 28-29. Review of Douglas Carmichael, trans., Commentary Upon a Poem of Platonic Love [Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]. PAPERS PRESENTED / SESSIONS CHAIRED / RESPONDENT “The (Disappearing) Artist as Archivist: Voice and Persona in Pu Songling’s ???? (liaozhai zhi yi)” (NYCAS 2006 [New York Conference on Asian Studies], Canton, New York, October 6-7, 2006). "Elder Gods, Mutants, and Sorcerers: The Lovecraft Semiotic as Sociocultural Critique in Horror Comix" (Fifth Congress of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, October 18-20, 2001). “When Lines Get Crossed: Cyberphobia, Cyberphilia, and Technoerotica in Tetsuo: The Iron Man” (23rd Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Toronto, Canada, October 15-18, 1998). “Liliana Cavani’s Unpopular Filmmaking: Erotic Creation and Creative Eroticism in The Night Porter and The Berlin Affair” (22nd Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Louisville, Kentucky, October 23-26, 1997). "‘Deciphering a cur’: Cultural Currency and Luke Hutton's Myth of the Black Dog" (Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Bloomington, Indiana, April 18-21, 1996). "The Final Visitation of the English Sweat: The Literature of Medical Self-Help and John Caius's Professional Manual" (Third Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies 1450-1850, Dallas, Texas, October 5-8, 1995). "Screaming Lord Byron: The Poet as Film Icon" (Twenty-first International Byron Conference, Salzburg, Austria, August 1-3, 1995) [w/Ramona Ralston] Respondent for session "It's a mall world after all: college students at the movies" ("North Country 13600 Campus: Taking Account of Student Culture in the College Classroom," Canton, New York, November 7, 1992). "The Unconscious Structured Like a Comic Book: (Re)constructive Psychology and Matt Howarth's Bugtown Mythos" (Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, October 30-November 1, 1992). Chair and respondent for session on "The Courtier and the Displacement of Women" (Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Binghamton, New York, October 17-19, 1991). "'This Giant Has Wounded Me As Well As Thee': Reading Bunyan's Violence and/as Authority" (First Biennial Conference on the Arts and Public Policy: "Politics and Literature of the Seventeenth Century," Orlando, Florida, March 7-9, 1991). "'This foot hath got a Mouth and lippes': Richard Crashaw's Bodies and the Poetics of Visceral Piety," and moderator of session "Pain, Laughter, and Visceral Piety" ("Crossing the Disciplines: Cultural Studies in the 1990s," Norman, Oklahoma, October 19-21, 1990). "Engines of Destruction and Liberation: The Genius of da Vinci in The Light and Darkness War" (Twenty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 1990). Chair and respondent for session on "Evolutionary Aspects of Medieval Drama" (Studies in Medievalism Fourth General Conference on Medievalism, West Point, New York, October 5-7, 1989). "'Kill, and dissect me, Love': Donne's Violence and Necropsy as Structural Discourse" (Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 13-16, 1989). Also chaired session ("Literature I"). "'To schaw thare reif, thift, murthour, and mischeif': The Semiosis of Violence in David Lindsay's Verse" ("Celtic Connections": Sixteenth ACTA Conference, Buffalo, New York, April 21-22, 1989). "'Pain is perfet misery': Reading the Miltonic Discourse of Violence" (Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27-30, 1988). Also chaired session on "The Semiotics of Poetical Discourse." "'Gobbets raw': Violence and Division in The Faerie Queene" ("The Renaissance": Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Binghamton, New York, October 16-18, 1987). "'The sea's another kettle of fish': Sea Travel as Corruptive Influence in O'Neill's In the Zone and Burroughs' Cities of the Red Night" (Popular Culture Association Thirteenth Annual Meeting, Wichita, Kansas, April 23-26, 1983). "The Dramaturgical Intention of Cruelty in the Cornish Ordinalia" (Eighteenth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 5-8, 1983). RESEARCH FUNDING Freeman Foundation, through the Asian Studies Initiative of St. Lawrence University: research in China on traditional and popular culture representations of Guangong/Guandi, 5/31/04-6/22/04. Researched temples and other historical sites from the Three Kingdoms period in Jiangsu, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Henan, and Sichuan Provinces, as well as in Hong Kong. Freeman Foundation, through the Asian Studies Initiative of St. Lawrence University: research in China on intersections between Daoism and Confucianism in the early spread of Confucianism, and on the life of author Pu Songling, 5/27/05-6/11/05. Researched temples and other sites at Qufu, Zibo, Tai’an, Ji’nan, and Qingdao, in Shandong province. Freeman Foundation, through the Asian Studies Initiative of St. Lawrence University: research in southern Vietnam as background for screenplay adaptation of Huynh Quang Ngoc, South Wind Changing, 6/6/06-6/23/06. Researched sites throughout Mekong Delta region including Saigon, Can Tho, the village of Vinh Long, and Phu Quoc Island. PROFESSIONAL CONSULTATION Manuscript reviewer -- Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS John Bunyan Society Malone Society -- Acting American Secretary, 1990-1991, 1995-1996 Medieval and Renaissance Dramatic Society Milton Society Renaissance English Text Society Renaissance Society of America Semiotic Society of America International Association of Semiotic Studies Selected University Service Chairperson, Theatre Arts Department/Department of Speech and Theatre, 1990-1993 Member, Faculty Council, 1990-1993, 1997-1999; Secretary, 1992-1993, 1997-1999 Member, Professional Standards Committee, 1994-1997, 1998-2000, 2001-2005; Case Minutes Secretary, 1994-1997, 1998-2000, 2003-2005; Chairperson, 2001-2003 Member, Asian Studies Program Advisory Board, 2005-present Member, European Studies Advisory Board, 1995-2000; Co-coordinator, 1998-1999 Member, Film Studies Advisory Board, 2002-present Member, Academic Advising/Freshman Registration Committee, 1988-1989 Member, Orientation Planning Board, 1988-1989 Adviser, Irving Bacheller Society, 1988-1990, 1994-1996 Chairperson, Committee on Honors and Independent Projects, English Department, 1988-1993, 1994-2000, 2001-present Chairperson, Art Gallery and University Collections Committee, 1989-1993 Member, Watson Fellowship Selection Committee, 1997-1998 Member, Executive Board of the Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries, 1988-present UNIVERSITY HONORS Named Craig Professor of English, 2006. Delivered Friends of the Library Lecture, May 20, 2000. J. Calvin Keene Award, 1998. Delivered Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecture, April 7, 1997 (“Deadly Charisma: Social Morality and the Uncensored Robin Hood Mythos in Contemporary Film”). Faculty Member of the Year, 1991-1992 – Panhellenic Council. |