JOHN A. BERTOLINI, Professor of English and Film, Middlebury College
Born Dec.1, 1947; Married, 2 children. 12 Morningside Drive, Middlebury, VT 05753
EDUCATION:
Graduated from Brooklyn Preparatory School, 6/65
B.A. Manhattan College, 6/69
M.A. Columbia University, 6/70
Ph.D. Columbia University, 5/75
Dissertation: "Dramaturgy in Italian and French Renaissance Tragedy"
EMPLOYMENT:
Manhattan College, Shakespeare play director, 9/69
College of New Rochelle, directed two plays, 2/69 and 9/70
Columbia College, Preceptor in English 9/72-6/73
Barnard College, Instructor Renaissance Studies, spring, 1974
Middlebury College, Assistant Professor of English, 9/75-6/82Associate Professor, 6/82-6/88
Professor, 6/89-present; full-time teaching: lecture and writing courses; seminars; theses, etc.
Member ALSC, 1996-
Chair, Program in Film, 1990
Chair, Program in Literary Studies, 1981-83, 1986-88, 1991-92, 1994-96
Appointed to Chair as Ellis Professor of the Liberal Arts, 1997
Wonnacott Commons Associate, 1998-99
Chair, English Dept., 1999-2001; Literary Studies 1999-2000
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Member ALSC, 1996-
Member editorial board of SHAW Annual (Penn State U.P.), 1994-
President Vermont Association of Scholars, 1994-2000; member NAS, 1994-
Member MLA, 1980-2001
Founding Member and Advisory Council, International Shaw Society, 2001-
BOOKS:
Man and Superman and Three Other Plays, Intro. And Notes. Barnes & Noble, 2004.
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays. Intro. And Notes. Barnes & Noble, 2004.
Shaw and Other Playwrights. Ed. Vol. 13 of SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies . The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.
The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw . Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. Reviewed in Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, etc.
ARTICLES:
Program essay: “After the Dance Comes the Reckoning” in After the Dance Program. Shaw Festival, Ontario Canada, July 2008
Also published in NER, V.29, n.2 (2008), pp.35-37
Also published in Shaw Magazine, Fall, 2008, pp.2-5
Program Note for Stoppard’s Jumpers, Middlebury College, April, 2008
“Wilde and Shakespeare in Shaw’s You Never Can Tell,” in SHAW, 27 (pp.156-164). The Pennsylvania State U.P., 2007.
Program essay: “Welcome to Feydeauville” in Hotel Peccadillo program, Shaw Festival, Ontario, Canada, June 2007.
“Shaw Responds to Shaw-bashing,” in SHAW 25 (pp.127-134). The Pennsylvania State U. P., 2005 (originally given at ISS Shaw Conference at USF, March, 2003) .
“Tennessee Williams” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (pp.410-419), ed. Jay Parini. Oxford U.P., 2004.
“Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw,” in British Writers’ Classics, ed. Jay Parini (pp. 197-213). Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
Reprint of “Rear Window, or the Reciprocated Glance” in Framing Hitchcock ed. Sidney Gottlieb. Wayne State University Press, 2002.
“Don Juan’s Past and the Future of the Human Species” New England Review (ed. Stephen Donadio) 23:2, pp.44-47, Spring, 2002
“Terence Rattigan” in British Writers: Retrospective Supplement VII. ED. Jay Parini. Scribner’s, 2002.
“George Bernard Shaw” in British Writers: Retrospective Supplement II. Ed. Jay Parini. Scribner’s, 2002.
Chapter on Man and Superman (from Playwrighting Self) reprinted in George Bernard Shaw’s Plays, ed. Sandie Byrne. A Norton Critical Edition, 2002.
Program Notes for productions of Tartuffe, Arcadia, Don Juan in Hell, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Middlebury College, 1994-2002.
"Shaw Family Values" in SHAW 16. ed. Dan H. Laurence and Margot Peters. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
"Rear Window, or the Reciprocated Glance," in The Hitchcock Annual (1995), pp.55-75.
Review --Essay: "London Dramaturgy" on Shaw's drama criticism, in ELT (1994), pp.70-81
"Introduction: Shaw as Mimic and Model" and "Finding Something New to Say: Rattigan Eludes Shaw." SHAW 13. The Pennsylvania State U.P., 1993, pp.1-7, 93-102.
Entries for Henry Sweet, Constance Wilde, and Frank Harris. The Encyclopedia of the 1890s . Garland, 1992.
"The Doctor's Dilemma: The Art of Undoing." Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 7: The Neglected Plays. Ed. Alfred Turco, Jr. 1987, pp.151-169.
"Imagining Saint Joan." Shaw. Ed. Daniel Leary. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983, pp.149-161.
Rpt. in Man and Superman and Saint Joan . The MacMillan Casebook. Ed. A. M. Gibbs. 1991.
Also rpt. in Major Literary Characters: Joan of Arc . Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1992.
Chapter on Pygmalion (from Playwrighting Self ) reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Gale), 1992.
"Fringe and Alternative Theatre in Great Britain." Dictionary of Literary Biography l3. British Dramatists Since World War II, Part 2: M‑Z. BC Research, 1982.
"Shaw's Ironic View of Caesar." Twentieth Century Literature (winter, 1981) Ed. William McBrien, pp.331-342.
Rpt. in Major Literary Characters: Julius Caesar. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1992.
"Ecphrasis and Dramaturgy: Leonardo's Leda in Rucellai's Oreste." Renaissance Drama VII (1977). Ed. Joel Kaplan. Northwestern U.P., pp.151-176.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS AND PUBLIC LECTURES:
Paper: “Shakespeare’s Shadow and Wilde’s Art in Shaw’s You Never Can Tell,” given at ISS Shaw Conference, Brown University, June, 2006 (in revised and extended version, SHAW 27, 2007 .
Graduation Address to Seniors at Awards Ceremony, Middlebury College, May, 2007
Lecture: The Can Can in Cinema (Middlebury College, Spring 2007)
Paper: “Shaw Responds to Shaw-bashing,” given at ISS Shaw Conference at USF, March, 2003) .
Lecture: “The Wisdom of You Never Can Tell” (with Q and A sessions) given at Shaw Festival during 4-day subscription Seminar, August, 2005.
Keynote lecture on the Don Juan tradition at Middlebury College International Symposium on Don Juan and Seduction, April, 2002.
Lecture: “Common Sense about Heartbreak House” given at Shaw Festival during 4-day Shaw subscription seminar, July, 1999; also participated in Q&A sessions
Abernathy lecture: “Hitchcock’s Signature Appearances and What They Mean (or Rumors of La Morte D’Auteur Greatly Exaggerated),” Middlebury College, Spring, 1999
Graduation address to Februaryy Seniors, 1999
Inaugural lecture for Ellis Chair: “Terence Rattigan and the Fate of Modern British Drama,” Middlebury College, 1998
Lecture and Discussion on Shakespeare’s The Tempest to students and staff of LI101, Middlebury College, 1997 and 1999
Presentation of scene from Ozu’s Early Spring at Japanese film symposium, Middlebury College, 1997
Lecture: “How to Know Which Movies Are Good or Bad: An Introduction to Film Appreciation,” Thomas Fellowship, 1997, and Wonnacott Commons, 1998
Panel Presentation on Sense and Sensibility at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 1997
Lecture (joint with Mary Ellen Bertolini) on Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility as film and novel, Middlebury College, 1997
Lecture on Shaw’s The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles and participant on various panels, as guest scholar at The Shaw Festival, Ontario, Canada, 1996
Panel Presentation for NAS on Political Correctness, Assumption College, 1996
Presentation of a Scene from Poil de Carotte at French Film Symposium, Middlebury College, 1996
Introduction to French Opera, Middlebury College, 1995
Presentation of scene from High Noon at Westerns Symposium, Middlebury College, 1995
Presentation of scene from 8 1/2 at Fellini Symposium, Middlebury College, 1994
Lecture: "Introduction to Italian Opera" for the Italian Club public meeting, fall 1993.
2 panels of new Shaw scholars. Chair. Virginia Tech Conference on "Shaw and the Last Hundred Years." Nov. 1992.
Lecture on Shakespeare and Shaw at Lincoln College. Oxford University, 1990.
Performance/reading of dramatic scenes. Middlebury Alumni College, Summer 1987 and Hawthorne Literary Society, Middlebury, 1989.
Lecture on Rear Window . Middlebury Alumni College, 1988.
Paper on Pygmalion. MLA, 1987.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Member editorial board of the SHAW Annual (Penn State U. Press), 1994-
Research towards and writing of a manuscript on the plays of Terence Rattigan.
Articles on Alfred Hitchcock.
Reviews appearing regularly in ELT, SHAW, and other journals.
Solicited to be reader of manuscripts by University Presses (Michigan, Susquehanna, Florida State)
Solicited to speak at Berkshire Drama Festival
Solicited to apply for chairmanship of the Drama Dept. at Indiana University
COLLEGE COMMITTEES:
Served on the Curriculum Committee, Educational Council, Library Committee
College Service:
Adviser to the American Film Club, 1976-1980
Adviser to the Republicans at Middlebury College, 2007-