Associate Professor, English Department
Master of Hinman College
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
tel.: (607) 777-4716
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail: avos@binghamton.edu
Areas of Interest
Renaissance Literature and Culture
Shakespeare
Colonial/Post-colonial studies
Student-centered pedagogies
Learning Communities
Books and Recent Articles
Letters of Roger Ascham (ed.)
"The Formation of Roger Ascham's Prose Style," in Studies in Philology
"Good Matter and Good Utterance: The Character of English Ciceronianism," in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
"Models and Methodologies in Renaissance Prose Stylistics," in Studies in the Literary Imagination
Place and Displacement in the Renaissance (ed)
Recent Courses Taught
Renaissance Literature
Colonial Encounters
British Literature I
Shakespeare
Elizabethan Culture
Literacies of Power
Problems, Teams, and Projects (General Education Honors Project)
Awards
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2007
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1974-1975