John C. Coldewey

Department of English, Box 354330
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195

Office: A 502 Padelford Hall

Phone: (206) 543-2183
FAX: (206) 685-2673
email: jcjc@u.washington.edu

Office Hours:
MT 10:30-11:30am and by appointment


Autumn 2008 Course Homepages:

ENGL 211C -- Medieval to Renaissance in English Literature
ENGL 320A -- Orality, Script, and Print in Early English Literary Culture
ENGL 592 -- Teaching 200-Level Literature Classes



John C. Coldewey, Professor of English at the University of Washington, has published widely in the areas of medieval and renaissance drama. He acted as Director of English Graduate Studies from 1995-1999, leaving to take a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1999-2000) and sabbatical (2000-2001). He is the Records of Early English Drama (REED) Editor for the volume on Nottinghamshire (forthcoming); with Brian P. Copenhaver he has co-edited two volumes in the Renaissance Latin Drama in England series (1984, 1991) and another 17th-century neo-Latin play, Pseudomagia (1979). For ten years (1983-94) he was Editor of Modern Language Quarterly (helping its transformation into MLQ: A Journal of Literary History in 1993). With Marianne Briscoe he brought out Contexts for Early English Drama (1989). His collection of non-cycle plays, Early English Drama: An Anthology (Garland Publishing), appeared in 1993, and another anthology, edited with W.R. Streitberger, Drama: Classical to Contemporary (Prentice Hall), in 1998, with a revised edition appearing in 2001. Recent work has appeared in the Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (ed. by Richard Beadle, 1994; rev. ed. by Richard Beadle and Alan Fletcher, 2007), Festive Drama (ed. Meg Twycross, 1996), European Medieval Drama Vols. I (1997), II (1998), and III (2000). His chapter "From Roman to Renaissance in Drama and Theatre" appeared in the New Cambridge History of British Theatre (3 Vols.; ed. by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson, 2004). His four-volume collection, Medieval Drama: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, was published by Routledge in July 2007

John Coldewey has served on the University Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology Faculty Advisory Board (a component of UWired) and the Department of English Placement Committee.  He served as Secretary-Treasurer, Vice-President, and President of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (1988-93). He was twice elected President of The Friends of UW Libraries (1995-96) and as Vice-President of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS), an allied organization of the MLA. He was the American representative on the European Medieval Drama Council (1995-99). He also recently served on the University of Washington Faculty Senate Executive Committee, and is now on the College of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee for Department of Scandinavian Studies, and the English Department Graduate Studies Committee.
 
 
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This Web page can be found at http://faculty.washington.edu/jcjc/; it was updated on September 21, 2007