NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Susanne Lindgren Wofford to Dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Professor Wofford is the Mark Eccles Professor of English and Director of the Center for Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include Shakespeare; Spenser; Renaissance and Classical Epic; Comparative Early Modern European drama, early fiction; intercultural studies of influence and literary relations; narrative and literary theory; theories of allegory, and dramatic interpretation through performance. Among her publications are: The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic (1992); ed., Hamlet: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (1994); ed., Shakespeare: The Late Tragedies (1996); co-editor, Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Politics of Community (1999); articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, Ovid, Boccaccio and Botticelli.

She has served as the President of the Shakespeare Association of America, and on the Boards of the International Spenser Society and of the American Comparative Literature Association; currently, she sits on the Advisory Board of the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes, and is Chair of the Executive Committee for the MLA Division on the Literature of the English Renaissance, excluding Shakespeare. She also won a Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1998 at the UW-Madison, and before that won three teaching awards while teaching at Yale University. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1982; B. Phil. In General and Comparative Literature, Oxford University, 1977; and B.A. summa cum laude in English and History, Yale College, 1973.