Department of Literature and Languages
Paul Streufert - Curriculum Vitae
PAUL D. STREUFERT
Department of Literature & Languages
The University of Texas at Tyler
3900 University Blvd.
Tyler, TX 75799
(903) 565-5823
pstreufert@uttyler.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Purdue University, 2001
M.A. in Classics, Texas Tech University, 1995
B.A. in Classics, cum laude, Valparaiso University, 1993
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Comparative Drama, including Attic Tragedy, Renaissance Drama, and Twentieth-Century
American Drama
Roman Lyric and Biography
Semiotics
DISSERTATION
“‘Whom Will I Serve?’ History, Myth, and Dramaturgy in Representing the Other in
Aeschylus, Shakespeare, and Sam Shepard.” Under the direction of Paul Whitfield White.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Director of Honors Program, The University of Texas at Tyler, Spring 2009–present
Interim Chair of the Department of Literature & Languages, The University of Texas at Tyler,
Fall 2008–Spring 2009
Associate Professor of Literature & Languages, The University of Texas at Tyler, Fall
2001–present
Instructor of Classics, Texas Tech University, Spring 1996 (One Semester Faculty Leave
Replacement)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue
University, 1997–2001
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Purdue University, 1996–97
Teaching Assistant, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech
University, 1993–95
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The University of Texas at Tyler
HNRS 1351 (World, Text, and Image I): 2009
Latin 1301 (Beginning Latin I): 2002–2007, 2009
Latin 1302 (Beginning Latin II): 2003–2008
Latin 2301 (Intermediate Latin I—Prose): 2003–2008
Latin 2302 (Intermediate Latin II—Poetry): 2004–2009
Latin 3305 (Advanced Readings in Latin): 2004, 2007
English 1301 (Composition): 2001, 2002
English 2362 (World Literature Through the Renaissance): 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
English 2363 (World Literature Since the Renaissance): 2003
English 3340 (World Literature Through the Renaissance): 2001
English 3345 (World Literature Since the Renaissance): 2002
English 4360 (Studies in World Literature): 2004 (focus on Roman/Italian novel), 2005 (focus on
Greek Tragedy), 2004 and 2005 Summers (focus on Greco-Roman Mythology), 2007 (focus on travel mythology), 2009 (focus on Roman/Italian novel)
English 4362 (Classical Literature in Translation): 2005, 2006, 2008
English 4365 (Special Topics in Literary Study): 2006 (“Staging the Supernatural”)
English 4368 (Literary Settings and Influences): 2006 (Travel Study to Roman Britain)
English 4395 (Studies in World Literature): 2002 (focus on Roman Literature), 2003 (focus on
Greek Literature)
English 5370 (Studies in World Literature): 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006
Purdue University
Greek 101 (First Semester Attic Grammar): 1998, 1999, 2000
Greek 102 (Second Semester Attic Grammar): 1999, 2000, 2001
Latin 101 (First Semester Latin Grammar): 1997, 1998, 2000
Latin 102 (Second Semester Latin Grammar): 1998
Latin 201 (Nepos and Petronius): 1999, 2001
English 101 (Composition): 1996
English 102 (Research and Writing): 1997
Texas Tech University
Classics 3320 (“The World of Greece”): 1996
Classics 1320 (Introduction to Classical Mythology): 1994
Classics 3350 (Comparative Mythology): 1995, 1996
Latin 1401 (First Semester Latin Grammar): 1994, 1996
Latin 1402 (Second Semester Latin Grammar): 1994
Latin 2302 (Catullus): 1995, 1996
Latin 4305 (Suetonius): 1996
PUBLICATIONS
Books Edited:
Early Modern Academic Drama. Ed. Jonathan Walker and Paul D. Streufert. London: Ashgate,
2008. (December 2008)
Refereed Articles:
“Christopherson at Cambridge: Greco-Catholic Ethics in the Protestant University.” Early
Modern Academic Drama. Ed. Jonathan Walker and Paul D. Streufert. London: Ashgate,
2008. 80–114. (December 2008)
“Visualizing the Classics: Frank Miller’s 300 in a World Literature Course.” Approaches to
Teaching the Graphic Novel. Ed. Stephen Tabachnick. New York: Modern Language Association, 2008. (December 2009)
“Was Euripides a Misogynist? Introduction, Pro and Con.” History in Dispute: Ancient World.
Eds. Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter. Farmington Hills: St. James, 2005. 106–113.
“Spectral Others: Theatrical Ghosts as the Negotiation of Alterity in Aeschylus and
Shakespeare.” Intertexts 8.1 (Spring 2004): 77–93.
“The Liar, The Forger, The Actor: The Idea of Author in Eco’s Rose and Island.”
Romance Languages Annual 11 (1999): 380–84.
“The Revolving Western: American Guilt and the Tragically Greek in Sam Shepard’s
Silent Tongue” American Drama. American Drama 8.2 (Spring 1999): 27–41.
(published in substantially different form as “A Note on Sophoclean Tendencies: Sam Shepard’s Silent Tongue” in pages 33–38 of James M. Palmer and Laura Wilson eds. Negotiating Space Crossing Borders: Working Papers from Purdue University’s First Graduate Studies Symposium of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Program in Comparative Literature, [West Lafayette, 1999]).
Notes/Reviews/Encyclopedia Entries:
“John Proctor.” Student’s Companion to Literary Characters. Columbia: Manly, 2006.
“Nero Wolfe.” Student’s Companion to Literary Characters. Columbia: Manly, 2006.
“Sam Shepard.” Twentieth Century North American Drama Collection, Alexander Street Press,
2004.
“Nikos Kazantzakis.” Encyclopedia of Life Writing. Ed. Margaretta Jolly. London:
Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 519–20.
“Suetonius.” Encyclopedia of Life Writing. Ed. Margaretta Jolly. London: Fitzroy
Dearborn, 2000. 850–52.
Review of Four Greek Plays, by Kenneth McLeish. Scholia Reviews 9 (2000): 41.
PANELS CHAIRED/PAPERS DELIVERED
“Translating Euripides for the Stage or How to Cry in Trojan.” The Center for Classical,
Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference, Tyler, Texas, March 2005.
“Staging Pagan Rome: Sejanus and Jack Pulman’s I, Claudius.” The 25th Southwest Texas
American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 2004.
“Spectral Others: Theatrical Ghosts as the Negotiation of Alterity in Aeschylus and
Shakespeare.” The 27th Comparative Drama Conference, Columbus, Ohio, April 2003.
“Christopherson at Cambridge: Greco-Catholic Ethics in the Protestant University.” The 37th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2002.
“Womb Envy: Old Women and the Poet in Tibullus Book One.” Classical Association of the
Middle West and South, 98th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, April 2002.
“Patriarchy’s Barometer: Signs of Power and Nature in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” The
Ohio Shakespeare Conference, Toledo, Ohio, March 2001.
Chair of the Modern Drama Panel for South Central Modern Language Association 57th
Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, November 2000. “Albee Teaching and
Teaching Albee: Approaching the Plays.”
Chair for Second Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Foreign Languages and
Literatures and the Program in Comparative Literature, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, February 2000. “Unexpected Connections.”
“‘The Best of the Persians’: The Ghost as Heroic Other in Early Aeschylean Drama.” The
Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, 31st Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Muncie, Indiana, October 2000.
“‘The Way to Put a Prince in Blood’: Depravity, Vice and Blasphemy in Ben Jonson’s
Sejanus.” South Central Modern Language Association, 56th Annual Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1999.
“The Liar, the Forger, the Actor: The Idea of ‘Author’ in The Name of the Rose and The
Island of the Day Before.” Eleventh Annual Purdue University Conference on
Romance Languages, Literatures and Film, West Lafayette, Indiana, October 1999.
“Pedagogy and Playing: Dis-Entangling the Educational Models in John Christopherson’s
Jephthah.” Southwest Wisconsin Medieval and Renaissance Conference,
Platteville, Wisconsin, September 1999.
“The Wages of Sin: The Tourist as Imperialist in Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard.”
South Central Modern Language Association, 55th Annual Convention, New
Orleans, November 1998.
“The Revolving Western: American Guilt and the Tragically Greek in Sam Shepard’s
Silent Tongue.” The Purdue University Graduate Studies Symposium of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Program in Comparative Literature, West Lafayette, November 1998.
“The Revolving Western: American Guilt and the Tragically Greek in Sam Shepard’s
Silent Tongue.” British Comparative Literature Association, 8th Annual
Convention, Lancaster, England, July 1998.
ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL AWARDS/GRANTS
George F. Hamm Chair in Arts and Humanities, The University of Texas at Tyler, 2008–2010
Alpha Chi National Honors Society Outstanding Faculty Member of the College of Arts and
Sciences, The University of Texas at Tyler, 2004, 2005
Invited participant in Liberty Fund Conference “Freedom, Power, and Political Upheaval in
Republican Rome,” Newport Beach, California, 2004.
Nominated for the University of Texas at Tyler Excellence in Teaching Award, Spring 2003,
2004, 2007, 2008.
The University of Texas at Tyler’s Presidential Faculty-Student Summer Research Grant,
Summer 2002. Developed a new translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis with student
actors.
The University of Texas at Tyler’s Junior Faculty Summer Research Stipend, Summer 2002.
The Novus Prize for “‘The Best of the Persians’: The Ghost as Heroic Other in Early
Aeschylean Drama.” The Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, October 2000.
Purdue Research Foundation Summer Research Grant, Summer 1999, 2000.
The Purdue University Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Teaching, Spring, 1999.
The A.H. Ismail Interdisciplinary Program Doctoral Research Travel Award, 1998:
Funding to support travel to deliver “The Revolving Western: American Guilt and the Tragically Greek in Sam Shepard’s Silent Tongue” at the British Comparative Literature Association’s 8th Annual Convention, Lancaster, England, July 1998.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Freshman Book Committee, 2008–2009
Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Committee, 2008–2010
The University of Texas at Tyler Faculty Senate—Alternate Senator, 2005–06; Junior Senator,
2006–07; Senator-at-Large, 2007–2008.
Chair, Alpha-Omega Luncheon Committee, 2005
The University of Texas at Tyler Faculty-Library Committee, 2003–06, Chair 2004–05
Library liaison between the Department of Literature and Languages and the UT-Tyler
University Library, 2003–05
Search Committee for the Department of Literature and Languages, Fall 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2007
Faculty Advisor, Eta Sigma Phi (Classics Honors Fraternity), 2007–present
Faculty Advisor, Praesides Linguae Mortuae (UT-Tyler Latin Club), 2002–present
Proofreader for Anthony Higgins’s Constructing the ‘Criollo’ Archive: Subjects of
Knowledge in the ‘Bibliotecha Mexicana’ and the ‘Rusticatio Mexicana’ for the
Purdue University Press, April, 2000
Faculty Advisor, Purdue Classical Network (Undergraduate Classics Organization),
1998–99
STAGED PRODUCTIONS
Euripides, Ion, in development with the George Fox University Theater Department, Newberg,
Oregon. Anticipated production, fall 2010, from my own translation.
Euripides, Bakkhai, in development with the Vaudeville Mews Theatre Company of Des
Moines, Iowa, from my own translation.
Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, performed by Old Soul Productions, Tyler, Texas, August 2005,
from my own translation.
Euripides, Trojan Women, performed by George Fox University Theater, Newberg, Oregon,
November 2004, from my own translation. Additionally, attended production at GFU as an invited guest. Conducted talks with classes, actors, and audience at GFU. November 3–5th , 2004.
Euripides, The Trojan Women, directed performance by the South Plains Shakespeare Company,
Lubbock, Texas, November 1994, from my own translation.
Euripides, Bakkhai, directed performance at Valparaiso University, April 1993, from my own
translation.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
The American Philological Association
The Modern Language Association
LETTERS OF REFERENCE
John T. Kirby, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Purdue University
Michael Kumpf, Professor of Classics, Valparaiso University
David H. J. Larmour, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature; Chair,
Department of Classics, Texas Tech University
Paul Allen Miller, Professor of Classics and Chair, Department of Comparative
Literature, University of South Carolina
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