Office: Keezell
417
Phone: 540-568-3761
Email: favilamc@jmu.edu
Office Hours:
Courses: Fall 2013
GEng 235: Survey of English Literature I (Beowulf to 18th Century) (with Julie Sorge Way)
Eng 317: Shakespeare's Tragedies and Romances
Specialization: Researching English Renaissance
Drama and Psychoanalytic Theory
Education:
Ph.D., English, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Program
in Psychoanalytic Studies
M.L.A., History of Ideas Program, Johns Hopkins University
Shakespeare Institute, Summer Program, University of
Birmingham, England
B.A., English, University of Maryland, College
Park
Professional Activities:
Faculty Advisor for Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society
Between Acts At James Madison University. I have founded this 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)
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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