Office: Keezell
417
Phone: 540-568-3761
Email: favilamc@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2008 Tus 4:30-7:30pm and Wed 3:30-6:30 pm and by appointment
Courses:
Spring 2008
Eng 456 Shakespeare
Eng 620 Shakespeare
Specialties: Researching English Renaissance
Drama and Psychoanalytic Theory
Faculty Advisor for Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society
BETWEEN ACTS At James Madison University- I have founded a small organization
of Theatre and English majors who perform scenes and monologues for English classes.
AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER’S BRING’EM BACK’EM
ALIVE Public Play Reading Series
DIRECTOR, The Blackfriars Theatre, Staunton, Virginia
-Thomas Middleton’s The Changeling (Nov. 2003)
-Thomas Middleton’s The Witch (Oct. 2002)
-Nicholas Udall’s Ralph Roister Doister (June 2002)
-Shakespeare’s Henry VIII (Apr. 2002)
-Beaumont and Fletcher’s A King and No King (Feb. 2002)
-Lyly’s Galatea (Feb. 2001)
FILM CONSULTATIONS for JT Productions: Shanee Gabel’s A Love Song for
Bobby Long (2003), Nora Ephron’s Michael (1996), and Roman
Polanski’s The Double (unreleased)
COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION
Second Vice President (2006/7)
First Vice President (2006/8)
President (2008/9)
Education: Ph.D., English, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst; The Program in Psychoanalytic Studies,
UMASS; M.L.A., History of Ideas Program, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore; Shakespeare Institute, Summer Program, University of
Birmingham, England; B.A., English, University of Maryland, College
Park.
Awards:
--JMU Teaching Grant for Course Development (with Giuliana Fazzion,
Foreign Languages), General Education Program, 2004
--JMU College of Arts and Letters Grant (with Giuliana Fazzion,
Foreign Languages, and William Hawke, Philosophy) for Freedom:
Humanity’s Unending Quest Conference,
March 2005
--Finalist for the Carl Harter Distinguished Teacher Award, 2000
--JMU English Department Summer Scholarship Grant, 2000
--Outstanding Educator, Alpha Phi Omega, National Service Fraternity, 2000
--English Literary Renaissance best graduate student essay (1990 and
1992)
--UMASS Dean’s Fellowship (1990) and Minority Fellowship (1994 and 1988)
Publications:
Professor Favila has published on Shakespeare and film in Modern
Philology, Upstart Crow, Hellas, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama
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