CURRICULUM VITA

James M. Sutton

Department of English                                                                                                                           3300 SW 18^th St.

Florida International University                                                                                                              Miami, FL 33145

University Park Campus - DM 452                                                                                                       (305) 445-6209

Miami, FL 33199

(305) 348-1270

E-mail: suttonj@fiu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Renaissance Studies, Yale University: May 1995

M.A., English, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: May 1988

B.A., English, Northwestern University: June 1986

Academic Employment

Chairperson and Associate Professor, Department of English, Florida International University:   2008-2012

Associate Professor, Florida International University: 2002-2008

Assistant Professor, Florida International University: 1995-2002

Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida State University Study Abroad Program, Florence, Italy:    Spring 1997

Co-Director, English in London Study Abroad Program, London, England: Summer 1996

Instructor, Florida International University: 1994-1995

Teaching Assistant, Yale University: 1991-1993

Publications

Review of Nicole Pohl, Women Space and Utopia, 1600-1800. Ashgate, 2006. Forthcoming in Journal Of British Studies, July, 2007.

Materializing Space at an Early Modern Prodigy House: The Cecils at Theobalds, 1564-1607.   
               (Aldershot, Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2005).

“Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612).” New Dictionary of National Biography                      
               (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

“‘The Allurement of Liking’ and the ‘Contentation of the  Eyes’: Decoding the Visual Culture of            
              the Elizabethan Prodigy House,” Renaissance Papers 2001 7 (2003): 101-25.

“The Decorative Programme at Elizabethan Theobalds” in Country Houses and Collections: An     
          Anthology. Geoffrey Beard, ed. (Clifford, West Shropshire: The Attingham Trust for the     
         Study of Country Houses and Collections, 2002) 8-9.

“The Retiring Patron: William Cecil and the Cultivation of Retirement, 1590-1598” in Patronage, Culture and Power:
The Early Cecils, 1558-1612. Pauline Croft, ed. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), 159-179.

“Jonson’s Genius at Theobalds: The Poetics of Estrangement.” The Ben Jonson Journal 7 (2000): 297-323.

“The Decorative Program at Elizabethan Theobalds: Educating an Heir and Promoting a Dynasty.”
Studies in the Decorative Arts: An International Journal  7 (Fall-Winter, 1999-2000): 33-64.

“William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Medieval or Early Modern?” Medieval Perspectives 11 (1996): 223-233.

Conference Papers and Panels

“Finding Space for Winter on the Shakespearean Stage: ‘Do the mortals really want their winter                
            here?’” Paper presented at the Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL: December 2007.

“Elizabeth and The Cecils: Theobalds and London.” Paper presented at Elizabethan Progresses   
              Conference, The Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England: April 2004

“‘The Allurement of Liking’ and the ‘Contentation of the  Eyes’: Decoding the Visual Culture of   
           the Elizabethan Prodigy House.” Paper presented at the Southeastern Renaissance        
           Conference. Beaufort, SC: April 2002

“Much Ado about Nothing, Troilus and Cressida, and the Sonnets.” Remarks made in response to a panel discussing
“Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism: The Sonnets in and out of the Plays.” Midwest Modern Language Association
Conference. Minneapolis, MN: November 1999

Panel Moderator, “Self-Fashionings.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference.           
         Coral Gables, FL: October 1999

“Shakespeare’s Richard III and the Figuration of Chiasmus.” Paper presented at the Group for Early Modern Studies Conference.
Newport, RI: November 1998

“Centrality and Marginality in Shakespearean Criticism.” Remarks made in response to a panel discussing “Quibbling in the Margins: Wordplay in Early Modern Drama.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference. St. Louis, MO: November 1998

“The Erculean Addition of Ferrara: Theatrical Space in a Real City.” Paper presented at the Southeastern College Art Conference. Miami Beach, FL: October 1998

“The 1607 Masque of the Genius at Theobalds.” Paper presented at the Eleventh Biennial New College Conference on Medieval - Renaissance Studies. Sarasota, FL: March 1998

“Spenser and Lord Burghley Reconsidered: Poetic Inscriptions of an Architectural Patron.” Paper presented at the Edmund Spenser among the Disciplines Conference. New Haven, CT: September 1996

Panel Moderator, “Designing for Reception.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference. Miami Beach, FL: March 1996

“Robert Cecil on the Strand: Architecture and Entertainments in Early Modern London.” Paper presented at the Tenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval - Renaissance Studies. Sarasota, FL: March 1996

“William Cecil, Lord Burghley: Medieval or Early Modern?” Paper presented at the Southeastern Medieval Association Conference. Charleston, SC: October 1995

“’Built to Envious Show?’: Penshurst Revisited, Hatfield house Reconsidered.” Paper presented at the Renaissance Society of America Conference. Dallas, TX: April 1994

Public Lectures

“Spatial Considerations at the Elizabethan Prodigy House,” one-hour presentation given at Florida International University as part of a series of lectures sponsored by the Graduate English Association (GEA) of the Department of English. Miami, FL: April 2004

“Literary Nostalgia and the Arts and Crafts Country House,” one-hour presentation given at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in conjunction with the exhibition “’Leading the Simple Life’: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain 1880-1910.” Miami Beach, FL: March 2000

Teaching and other Pedagogical Activities

Graduate Courses (M.A. and M.Arch.)

            Shakespeare’s Comedies: Spring 2006

            Ben Jonson: Fall 2005

Renaissance Spaces: Fall 2004

Studies in Shakespeare: Fall 2003, Fall 2000, Summer 2000, Summer 1999, Summer 1996

Special Topics—Spenser: Spring and Summer 2003

Thesis and Dissertation Workshop: Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001, Fall 1998

Renaissance Lyric Poetry: Summer 2000

Renaissance Country Houses: Spring 2000, Spring 1998, Summer 1996

Independent Study: Spring 2000

M.A., M.F.A. and M. Arch. Thesis Committees

            John Evans, “The Five Dollar Shirt.” M.F.A. thesis, defended Spring 2007. Reader.

            Hans Morgenstern, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” M.A. thesis, defended Fall 2006. Reader.        

Alison Hesh, “The Uses of Magic in Three Medieval Texts. . .” M.A. thesis, defended     
                       Summer 2006. Reader.

Debbie Linda Gyenisze, “Sexual and Artistic Manipulation: Elizabeth and Leicester’s Key       
   for Survival in the Elizabethan Era.” M.A. thesis, defended Summer 2004. Director.

Denise K. Riu, “Elizabethan Constructions of Self and Other in Shakespeare’s Titus      
             Andronicus and Othello.” M.A. thesis, defended Fall 2003. Reader.

Adrianna Palumbo Truby, “Cleopatra, The Embellished Dido: Eros in Shakespeare’s       
           Antony and Cleopatra.” M.A. thesis, defended Fall 2001. Reader.

Kelly Josephs, “The Tempest and its Caribbean afterlife.” M.A. thesis, defended Spring      
          2001. Reader.

Fabien Romero, M.A. thesis on Keats and the Critics. Defended Fall 2001. Reader.

Susan Briante, “Pioneers in the Study of Motion.” M.F.A. thesis, defended Fall 2000.     
             Reader.

Karen Carson, “The Function and Failure of Plantation Government: Interpreting Spaces           
  of Power and Discipline in Representations of Slave Plantations.” M.A. thesis,               
    defended Summer 2000. Reader

Daphne Blum, “Picking Up the Pieces: Body Parts and Female Power in Shakespeare’s       
       ‘The Rape of Lucrece.’” M.A. thesis, defended Spring 2000. Reader.

Lizette Maria Pimentel, “Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly.” M. Arch. thesis,        
          defended Spring 2000. Reader.

Melanie E. Pitts, “’Rare Egyptian’ and “Noble Caesar’: Shakespeare’s Antony and         
            Cleopatra—Elizabeth, James and the Iconography of Gender.” M.A. thesis,      
                defended Spring 1999. Director.

On-going: Currently directing two M.A. theses (Sarah Maffet, writing on Spenser, Faerie        
     Queene, Book 5; and Diana Fernandez, writing on space in the poetry of Lady Mary Wroth); and serving as reader for two other students
    (Yimali  Gonzalez, Belkis  Cabrera).

Undergraduate Courses

            Freshman Composition for Architecture and Design students (ENC 1101)

            Literary Analysis (ENC 1102)

Survey of Early British Literature (ENL 2011)

Renaissance Drama: Revenge Tragedies (ENL 4161)

Renaissance Lyric Poetry (ENL 4222)

Spenser (ENL 4225)

Shakespeare’s Histories (ENL 4320)

Shakespeare’s Comedies (ENL 4321)

Shakespeare’s Tragedies (ENL 4322)

Shakespeare’s Roman Plays (ENL 4930)

Shakespearean Women (ENL 4390)

Shakespeare and Film (ENL 4390)

Shakespearean Lyric Poetry (ENL 4390)

Representations of Queen Elizabeth I (LIT 4930 / IDS 4920)

Renaissance Country Houses (LIT 4930 / IDS 4920)

Renaissance Florence (LIT 4930 / IDS 4920)

Renaissance Folly (LIT 4930 / IDS 4920)

Independent Study—wide range of topics (ENG 4906)

Courses Taught Abroad

Travel Writing in Italy (FSU-Florence program, Spring 1997)

Shakespeare’s “Italian” Plays (FSU-Florence program, Spring 1997)

English Country Houses (“English in London” program, Summer 1996)    
Shakespeare and the London Theatre (“English in London” program, Spring 1996)

Research Grants, Fellowships, Awards and other Honors

FIU Sabbatical Leave, August 2007 – May 2008

Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award, FIU Faculty Senate: October 2001

Inductee, Sigma Tau Delta, Alpha Alpha Kappa chapter (departmental student honor society): April 2001

Certificate of Excellence, given by Sigma Tau Delta, Alpha Alpha Kappa chapter in recognition of “genuine concern for the future of FIU’s English majors”: April 1999

Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, FIU Faculty Senate: September 1998

Florida International University Foundation / Provost’s Office Summer Research Grant, “The Cultural and Aesthetic Patronage of William and Robert Cecil, 1563-1612”: May - June 1997

American Friends of Attingham Scholarship, for attendance on the 46^th Attingham Summer School for the Study of the Country House in Britain: July 1997

Yale University Dissertation Fellowship: Spring 1994

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Graduate Fellowship: Fall 1993

John F. Enders Summer Research Grant: 1993

Yale College Prize Teaching Fellowship: 1992-1993

Folger Shakespeare Institute Grant-in-Aid: Fall 1992

University Service

Chairperson, University Faculty Convocation Committee, May 2002-October 2008

University Faculty Convocation Committee: May 2000-May 2002

Academic Advisory Council, Wolfsonian-FIU: 1999-2001

Founder and Co-Director of the Design-Write Program (a cross-disciplinary initiative linking  first-year architectural design studio courses with freshman composition and literary analysis): 1998-2001

University Access and Equity Committee: 1997-2001

University Title IX Gender Equity Committee (subcommittee of UAEC): 1997-2001

Departmental Service

Chairperson, August 2008 – August 2012

Head Undergraduate Advisor, August 2002-August 2007

Salary Committee, 2000-2001, 2002-2003

Undergraduate Advising: 1994-2001

Personnel Committee: 1999-2000

Curriculum Committee: 1999

Composition Committee: 1997-1998

Library Liaison: 1995-1996

Search and Screen Committees: 1995 (18^th-century position); 1998 (Anglo-Saxon / medievalist   
             position); 2003 (18^th-century position); 2005 (18^th-century position); 2006 (16^th-      
             century/composition/rhetoric position)