DEGREES, DIPLOMAS, AND DISSERTATIONS:

B.A. (Hons.) University of Bristol, 1963

Diploma in Education University of East Africa, 1964

M.A. University of East Anglia, 1967

Ph.D. University of Alberta, 1970

M.A. DISSERTATION: "The Triumph of Knavery: A Study of the Moral Dilemmas Resulting from the Dramatic Presentation of Triumphant Knavery in Comedy between 1597 and 1642"

Ph.D. DISSERTATION: "The English Prodigal Son Plays to 1625"

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Government Education Officer in Kenya, 1964-66

Instructor, Department of English, Simon Fraser University, 1967-68

Part-time Sessional Lecturer, Department of General Linguistics, University of Alberta, 1969

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Acadia University, 1970-75

Associate Professor, Department of English, Acadia University, 1975-80

Full Professor, Department of English, Acadia University, 1980-98

Retired 1998

Appointed Professor Emeritus 1998

Head of Department of English, Acadia University, 1987-94

Division of Continuing Education, Acadia University. Contract to create and then teach two online courses on Shakespeare, 1998-2008

VISITING APPOINTMENTS:

Longman Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, University of Leeds, 1976-77

Visitor at Mansfield College, Oxford, 1976-77

Visiting Fellow, Department of English, Princeton University, 1991-92