Helen B. Brooks, Senior Lecturer Emerita Primary Office: 460-222 At Stanford Since: 1980 Email: hbrooks@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Texts in History: Medieval to Early Modern “`All the World’s a Stage’: Dramatic Realism on the Threshold of the Modern World.” Degrees: Ph.D. English and Humanities, Stanford, 1980 M. A. English, San Francisco State University, 1971 B. A. English, San Francisco State University, 1968 Titles: Assoc. Director: 2000-07: Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Acting Director (Aut-Win 2006-07), Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Acting Director: 2002-03; Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Acting Professor, English: 2002-07 |
Earned a Joint Ph.D. in English and Humanities at Stanford in 1980. Publications on John Donne; on the poetry of John Donne and Adrienne Rich (a commissioned article; in The John Donne Journal, Vol. 26, 2007: 333-362); on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola and early modern poetry; on the poetry of John Davies of Hereford for the Dictionary of Literary Biography; and served as a Contributing Editor for The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne: The Holy Sonnets, Vol. 7 published by Indiana University Press, 2005. Teaching includes courses on John Donne, Shakespeare, Renaissance/early modern poetry, Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, graduate seminars on Renaissance/early modern intellectual and cultural history (in the Graduate Program in Humanities), and theoretical approaches to literature. Other research and teaching interests include interdisciplinarity, narratology, new historicism, reception theory, gender studies, science/technology/math and literature, modern poetry and drama, and Virginia Woolf. Elected as an officer and Executive Board member of the John Donne Society in 2005. Appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of a new academic journal: Forum on Public Policy, published by Oxford Round Table and the University of Oxford (2005). Elected to Marquis Who's Who of American Women (2007-08); (2008-09) and to Who's Who in America (2008 and 2009). Received The Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education at Stanford (1994). |
