Lee A. Jacobus

I taught English literature at Western Connecticut State University, and for 32 years at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. I was visiting professor at Columbia University and Brown University. My specialties are Milton, Shakespeare, James Joyce, and Modern Irish Literature. Some of my books: The Romantic Soul of Emma Now, Crown Island, a Quarrytown novel; Volcanic Jesus, a collection of short stories; Approaching Great Ideas, A World of Ideas; The Bedford Introduction to Drama (and Brief Edition); The Humanities Through the Arts; Substance, Style, and Strategy; Writing As Thinking; The Longman Anthology of American Drama; Humanities: The Evolution of Values; Aesthetics and the Arts, Shakespeare and the Dialectic of Certainty, Sudden Apprehension: Aspects of Knowledge in Paradise Lost,John Cleveland: A Life. Brown University, AB, AM 1959; Claremont Graduate University, PhD 1968. I am married to Joanna J. Jacobus, dance teacher (UConn), choreographer, and licensed massage therapist. We have two children, Sharon and James.