Distinguished Teaching Professor, English Department
(Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1969)
tel.: (607) 777-6403
fax.: (607) 777-4831
e-mail:atricomi@binghamton.edu
Areas of Interest
Early Modern drama
New historicism, Cultural historicism
Shakespeare
University education & the culture wars
Books and Recent Articles
"Harriet Jacobs's Autobiography and the Voice of Lydia Maria Child," ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 2008
"America's Missionary Evangelicism in Sinclair Lewis's The God-Seeker." Studies in American Fiction, 2007
"Dialect and Identity in Harriet Jacob's Autobiography and Other Slave Narratives," Callaloo, 2006
"Historicizing the Imagery of the Demonic in The Duchess of Malfi," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2004
"The Dead Man's Hand in The Duchess of Malfi." Studies in English Literature"
Recent Courses Taught
Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Contemporaries
Early Modern Drama
Race & Class in American Literature
Awards
Chancellor's and University Award for Excellence in Teaching 1973-74
Major Grants
Project co-editor, $250,000 FIPSE Grant: Honors Project in General Education
Chair & Grant-writer $27,000 FIPSE Grant: Faculty Institute on Student-Centered Learning
