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