THERESA MARIA DiPASQUALE

Department of English                                                                                                                                                                                    
Whitman College                                                                                                                                                                                           
Walla Walla, WA 99362                                                                                                                                                                                 
509-526-4710

EDUCATION
1989 Ph.D. University of Virginia
1985 M.A. University of Virginia
1983 B.A. with high honors, University of Notre Dame

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of English, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 2002-
Assistant Professor of English, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, 1998-2002
Associate Professor of English, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, 1996-1998
Assistant Professor of English, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, 1992-96
Assistant Professor of English, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 1990-92
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA, 1989-90
Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1985-1988

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Refiguring the Sacred Feminine:  The Poems of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton.  Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2008.

Literature and Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1999; Cambridge, England: James Clarke, 2001.

Refereed Articles:

"Donne's Epigrams: A Sequential Reading."  Modern Philology 104.3 (February 2007): 329-78.

"'Shee sees,'" 'She's seen,' and she 'hath shown':  The Feminine Trinity in 'Upon the Annuntiation and Passion."  John Donne Journal 23 (2004): 117-38.

"Milton’s Purgatorio."  Philological Quarterly 80.2 (Spring 2001): 169-86.

"'to good ends': The Final Cause of Sacramental Womanhood in The First Anniversarie." John Donne Journal 20 (2001): 141-50.

"Woman's desire for Man in Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99.3 (2000): 356-378.  Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800.  Vol. 83. Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth-, Sixteenth-, Seventeenth-, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers.  Ed.  Michael L. LaBlanc.  Detroit, New York: Gale, 2003.  317-28.

"'Heav'n's last best gift': Eve and Wisdom in Paradise Lost." Modern Philology 95.1 (1997): 44-67.

"Receiving a Sexual Sacrament: 'The Flea' as Profane Eucharist." John Donne's Religious Imagination. Ed. Frances Malpezzi and Raymond-Jean Frontain. Conway, AR: UCA Press, 1995. 81-95.  Reprint forthcoming in the Norton Critical Edition of The Poetry of John Donne, ed. Donald R. Dickson, to be published November 2006.

"Cunning Elements: Water, Fire, and Sacramental Poetics in Donne's 'I am a little world.'" Philological Quarterly 73.4 (1994): 403-415.

"Donne's Catholic Petrarchans: The Babylonian Captivity of Desire." Renaissance Discourses of Desire. Ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. University of Missouri Press, 1993. 77-92.

"Ambivalent Mourning: Sacramentality, Idolatry, and Gender in 'Since she whome I lovd hath paid her last debt.'" John Donne Journal 10.1-2 (1991): 45-56. Rpt. as "Ambivalent Mourning in 'Since she whome I lovd,'" Donne's "desire of more": The Subject of Ann More Donne in his Poetry. Ed. M. Thomas Hester. University of Delaware Press, 1996. 183-195.

"Seraphic Seduction in Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses." Studies in the Novel 19.4 (1987): 475-485.

Invited Articles:
"The Things Not Seen in Donne's 'Farewell to Love.'" John Donne Journal 18 (1999): 243-253.

"William Drummond." Seventeenth-Century English Non-Dramatic Poets: First Series. Vol. 121 of The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. M. Thomas Hester. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1992. 110-125.

Review:
Review of Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon. Ed. Marshall Grossman (Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1998). Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100.1 (2001): 137-139.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

"Reading Donne's Epigrams in Sequence:  An Introduction."  Twenty-First Annual Conference of the John Donne Society.  Baton Rouge, LA.  17 February 2006.
  
"Posture, Imposture, and Textual Positions: Getting to Know 'A Lame Begger' and His Neighbors."  Twentieth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society.  Baton Rouge, LA.  24 February 2005.

"'She'is embrac'd and open':  Donne's 'Show me deare Christ' and Augustine's Exposition of Psalm 33."  Nineteenth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society.  Gulfport, MS.  13 February 2004.

"'Shee sees,'" 'She's seen,' and she 'hath shown':  The Feminine Trinity in 'Upon the Annuntiation and Passion."  Modern Language Association Convention.  San Diego, CA.  27 December 2003.

"'Shee onely': The Priesthood of Woman and the Womanhood of the Church in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum."  Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference.  Malaspina University College.  Nanaimo, BC.  3 May 2003.

"'to good ends': The Final Cause of Sacramental Womanhood in The First Anniversarie." Sixteenth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society. Gulfport, MS. 16 February 2001.

"Poetry and the Sacramental in 'A Funerall Elegie' and The First Anniversarie." Fifteenth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society. Gulfport, MS. 18 February 2000.

"Sacraments Lost: Baptism, Eucharist, and Woman in The First Anniversarie." Fourteenth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society. Gulfport, MS. 26 February 1999.

Participant in Panel Discussion of Donne's "A Farewell to Love." Thirteenth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society. Gulfport, MS. 21 February 1998.

"'The Crosse' as Poetic Sacrament." Twelfth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society. Gulfport, MS. 21 February 1997.

"Two Churches, Two Countesses, and Two Genres in a Letter from Donne to Goodyer." Session on "Donne's Commonplaces." MLA Convention. Washington, D.C., 28 December 1996.

"Bad Confession and Good Art: Desunt Caetera." Tenth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society. Gulfport, MS, 17 February 1995.

"Cunning Elements: Water, Fire, and Sacramental Poetics in 'I am a little world.'" Twenty-ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 8 May 1994.

"Heroic Chastity: Biblical Women in the Poetry of 17th-Century Feminist Aemilia Lanyer." Lecture for Women's History Month. Florida International University, 23 March, 1994.

"Fear and Loathing: The Susannah of Aemilia Lanyer." Session on "Susannah as Exemplar: Medieval and Renaissance Views," Twenty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 8 May 1993.

"Opening Wisdom's Way: The Experience of Eve." John Milton: A General Session. MLA Convention. New York, 29 December 1992.

"A More Convincing Flea: 'it is irremediably donne.'" Session on John Donne. MLA Convention. New York, 28 December 1992.

"Woman As Mortal Sacrament: Ambivalent Mourning in the Sonnet on Anne's Death." Special Session on "Anne More Donne: Reading Her Present Absences in the Verse of John Donne." MLA Convention. Chicago, 28 December 1990.

"Petrarchan Eucharist in Donne's 'Twicknam Garden': The Babylonian Captivity of Desire." The Ninth Biennial Renaissance Conference at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. 20 October 1990.

ADDRESSES

"A Tale of Two Sequences: Reading the Variorum Edition of the Holy Sonnets."  Presidential Address.  Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the John Donne Society.  Baton Rouge, LA.  17 February 2007.

"The Fruits of the Poem."  Convocation Address for Whitman College's Official Opening of 2006-2007 Academic Year.  24 August 2006.  Text available on line at <http://www.whitman.edu/content/news/convospeech>.

"Restoring the Sacramental: Donne's First Anniversarie." Keynote Address for the Cleveland Medieval & Renaissance Society's Colloquium on "Religious Lyrics: Problems & Close Readings." Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland Ohio. 13 July 2000.

WORK IN PROGRESS

"Donne and Misogyny." A commissioned 5000-word essay to be included in the new Oxford Handbook for John Donne Studies, ed. Jeanne Shami, M. Thomas Hester, and Dennis Flynn.

"Donne's Clocks."  An article on Donne's use of clock imagery in a variety of different genres.
TEACHING

Courses Taught at Whitman College
General Studies 145-146: Antiquity and Modernity
English 110: Language and Writing
English 177: Introduction to Poetry
English 179: Introduction to Drama
English 181: Introduction to Literature — Literary Feasts
English 182: Introduction to Literature — Lovers in Literature
English 181: Introduction to Literature — African-New World Shakespeare
English 290:  Approaches to the Study of Literature
English 337: English Renaissance Literature
English 337 ST:  English Renaissance Literature — The Reign of Elizabeth
English 338: Seventeenth-Century Literature
English 351, 352: Shakespeare
English 357: Milton
English 368: John Donne
English 372: Literature of the Modern Theater
English 387: Special Studies — EVIL
English 388: Special Studies — African-New World Shakespeare
English 491: Junior/Senior Seminar —  The Sonnet
English 491: Junior/Senior Seminar — The Birth of Modernity: 1611
English 492: Junior/Senior Seminar — Women Writers of the English Renaissance
English 491: Junior/Senior Seminar — Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England
English 496: Senior Seminar — The Idea of the Epic

Paper Sponsorship and Thesis Direction
Sponsored papers for the Whitman Undergraduate Conference, 2000, 2002, and 2007
Directed senior thesis on Milton, 2001-2002
Directed senior honors thesis on Donne, 2003-2004

Professional Development in Pedagogy:
Core Workshops, 2000-2001, 2001-2004, January 2005
Whitman Intercultural Workshop with Dr. Janet Bennett, October 1, 2005
Rockefeller Grant Workshop on Oral Literacy in the Classroom, August 14-18, 2000
Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop on Classroom Discussion with visiting scholar Stephen D. Brookfield,
        September 15, 2000
Northwest Information Literacy Institute, Penrose Library, Whitman College, Summer 2003

Courses Taught at Florida International University:
Graduate Literature:

Milton
Female Voices in Renaissance Literature
Renaissance Literature (Sidney, Spenser, Donne)
Undergraduate Literature and Writing:
Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose
Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose
Milton
Shakespeare: Tragedies
Shakespeare: Comedies
Variations on Shakespeare's Tempest
African-New World Shakespeare
Studies in Renaissance Literature: Renaissance Politics and Literature
Studies in Renaissance Literature: Love and Death 1570-1670
Studies in Renaissance Literature: Sex and Power
Senior Honors Seminar in English
Approaches to Literature
Freshman Composition
Literary Analysis


Additional Courses Taught at Carleton College:
Introduction to English Literature I
Freshman Seminar on "Love Lyrics in the Renaissance and Today"
Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost (half-term courses in sequence)

Additional Courses Taught at Sweet Briar College:
Shakespeare: Twelve Plays
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton (a lower-division survey)

Additional Course Taught at the University of Virginia:
Transitional Composition (Summer course for at-risk incoming Freshmen)

ADVISING
Pre-Major, Transfer-Student and English Majors' Academic Advisor, Whitman College, 1999-
Academic Advisor for North Miami Campus English Majors, Summer-B Term, 1995
Advisor for English Majors considering Graduate School, Carleton College 1991-92
Freshman Advisor, Carleton College, 1992
Reader and Advisor for Senior English majors' theses at Sweet Briar and Carleton, 1990-92
Freshman Advisor for College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, 1987-1988

SERVICE

Service at Whitman College and in Walla Walla, WA:

Whitman College Department of English: 
Search/Hiring Committee for Tenure-Track Position, 2006-2007
Search/Hiring Committees for Two Tenure-Track and One Non-Tenure Track Position, 2003-2004
Search/Hiring Committees for Two Tenure-Track and Two Sabbatical Replacement Positions, 2001-2002
Search/Hiring Committees for Sabbatical Replacement and "Core Replacement" Positions, 2000-2001
Selection Committee for Paul Jackson Award for Excellence in Literary Study, Spring 2002, 2004, and 2005
Writer and Reviser of English Majors' Handbook, 2001-2002; 2007-08
Schedule-maker for Senior Oral Examinations, 1998-2002, 2005-Spring 2007.
Selection Committee for Creative Writing Award, Spring 2000

Whitman College:
Lecturer and Discussion-Leader for Whitman College Alumni Association trip to the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, August 2007, 2008.
Faculty Liaison for the Beinecke Fellowship and Chair of the Beinecke Fellowship Committee, 2004-2007
Judge for Sonnet Contest, Renaissance Faire, 2002
Core Coffee Talk on Romantic Poets, 5 March 2002
Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, Spring 2001
General Studies Committee, 2000-2001
Search/Hiring Committee for Philosophy Department Tenure-Track Position 2000-2001
Library Committee 1999-2002
Juror for the Annual Student One-Act Play Contest, 1998-2001, 2003, 2006-
Baker Faculty Center Governing Board, 1999-2002
Core Coffee Talk on Othello, 23 January 2001
Faculty Advisor for Renaissance Faire, Spring 2001
Vice President of Whitman Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 2001-

Community:
Copyeditor and Indexer of Assumption School Parent/Student Handbook, Summer 2008
Parent Driver for Assumption School Kindergarten Field Trips, Spring 2008
Speaker for Pre-Concert Cram, Walla Walla Symphony, 7 May 2002
Lector at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Walla Walla, 1999-2001

Service at Florida International University and in South Florida:

FIU Department of English:
Chair, Composition Committee, 1996-97
Composition Committee, 1995-98
Personnel Committee, 1996-98
Honors Seminar Planning Committee, Spring 1995
Search and Screen Committee--North Campus American Literature Position, 1993-94
Search and Screen Committee--Renaissance Literature Position, 1992-93
Ad-hoc member of the Admissions Committee, M.A. Program in English, Spring 1994
Speaker for the Graduate School Workshop sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, October 22, 1993 and October 28, 1994
Guest Lecturer, "Milton's Paradise Lost," Liberal Studies Colloquium, Studies in Evil, October 1994.

FIU College of Arts and Sciences:
Arts and Science Representative for North Campus Bookstore Committee, 1997-1998
Campaign worker for FIU Scholarship Referendum, Fall 1994

Community:
Guest speaker on Shakespeare films, Classical/Foreign Film Discussion Group, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Fall 1996, Winter 1998

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
External Reviewer Evaluating a University Assistant Professor for Promotion, Summer 2008
Reviewer for B. J. Robinson, Major Eminent Great and other poems (Snake Nation Press, Forthcoming), Spring 2008
Member of the Advisory Board, Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature (ISSN: 1522-2314), 2007-
President of the John Donne Society, 2007-2008
First Vice-President of the John Donne Society, 2006-2007
Second Vice-President of the John Donne Society, 2005-2006
Organizer and Session Chair, The John Donne Society’s General Session on Donne,  Modern Language Association Convention, New York, NY,  30 December 2002.
Reader/Referee for Duquesne University Press (considering a book manuscript for publication), Summer 2001.
Executive Committee, John Donne Society, 1996-1999.
Session Chair, Eleventh Annual Conference of the John Donne Society in Gulfport, MS, 16 February 1996.
Respondent, First Session of the Ninth Annual Conference of the John Donne Society. Gulfport, MS, 18 February 1994.
Referee, Papers on Language and Literature, Spring, 1993.
Secretary to the Faculty, Carleton College, Spring 1991-Winter 1992
Member of Departmental Area Committee for Renaissance Literature, University of Virginia, Graduate English Students'
        Association, 1987-88.
Participant in the Midwest Faculty Seminar on Foucault's The History of Sexuality, March 12-14, 1992 at the University of
        Chicago
Research Assistant to Hoyt Duggan, ed. The Wars of Alexander, EETS ss 10, 1983-84.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS
For Literature and Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne — John Donne Society Award for
    Distinguished Publication, 2000
Florida International University's Teaching Incentive Program Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997
Florida International University Foundation's Summer Research Award, 1993
Dissertation Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1988-89
Ewing Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1987
DuPont Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1985-86 and 1984-85
Phi Beta Kappa, 1983
Notre Dame Scholar, 1979

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Phi Beta Kappa
The Modern Language Association of America
The John Donne Society