Richard Burt
Professor
Richard Burt received his BA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and 1984, respectively. After holding a post-doctoral fellowship at the Medieval and Renaissance Center at Arizona State from 1984–86, Burt taught in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1986–2003. His dissertation on Shakespeare’s comic form, gender, and scapegoating was directed by Professor Stephen Greenblatt, now at Harvard University.
Burt is the author of numerous articles on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, literary theory, the Middle Ages in film and media, the erotics of pedagogy, telepolitics, and censorship. He is the author of three books: Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture (St. Martin’s, 1998; rev. paperback, 1999); Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship (Cornell UP 1993); his third book, Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media, is now in production and will be published by Palgrave Macmillan on July 9, 2008. He is also the editor of Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture (Greenwood Press, 2006); Shakespeare After Mass Media (Palgrave, 2002); and The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere (UMinn, 1994). Burt is the co-editor of Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England (Cornell UP, 1994), Shakespeare the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video (Routledge, 1997) and Shakespeare the Movie, II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD (Routledge, 2003).
Burt held a Fulbright scholarship in Berlin, Germany from 1995–96, and taught there at the Free University and the Humboldt University. In addition to learning more about website design for pedagogical purposes, he is currently completing a book entitled Alluding to Shakespeare: The Remains of the Plays in Transnational Cinema and Media.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4314
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 250
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <rburt@english.ufl.edu>