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Syracuse University |
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Sanford Sternlicht |
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Currently an Adjunct Professor of English at Syracuse University, Sanford Sternlicht has a broad range of expertise, ranging from studies in Shakespeare, Irish and British fiction, and poetry and theater and Jewish-American literature. Sternlicht’s most recent publications are A Reader’s Guide to Modern British Drama and The Tenement Saga: The Lower East Side and Jewish-American Writers, a two part book discussing his early childhood experiences on Manhattan’s lower east side and the achievements of early Jewish-American authors writing in English and A Reader’s Guide to Modern British Drama. Dr. Sternlicht will be teaching a course on literature of the Lower East Side in spring 2006. |
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Ph.D. Syracuse University |
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Recent News:
Professor Sanford Sternlicht will, on 13 March, be addressing SU Alumni in LA at the University of Judaism. There he will talk about, and read from, his recent book: THE TENEMENT SAGA: THE LOWER EAST SIDE AND EARLY JEWISH AMERICAN WRITERS (U. of Wisc. Press, 2004). Courses:
The Tenement Saga
Teaching:
Professor of English, Director of Graduate Studies in English, and Chairperson of the Department of Theatre. SUNY Oswego 1959-1986. Leverhulme Visiting Fellow, University of York, England, 1965. Professor Emeritus, SUNY Oswego Professor of English half-time, Syracuse University. Irish Studies Series Editor for Syracuse University Press from 1996-2003. Fulbright Senior Specialist and Visiting Professor of English at the University of Pécs, Hungary, March 2004. Books: Gull's Way (poetry), 1961 Love in Pompeii (poetry), 1967; The Black Devil of the Bayous (history with E. M. Jameson), 1970 John Webster's Imagery and the Webster Canon (literary criticism, selected to inaugurate the Studies in Jacobean Drama Series from University of Salzburg, Austria), 1974 McKinley's Bulldog: The Battleship Oregon (history, Military Book Club and Saturday Evening Post Book Club selection) 1977 John Masefield, 1977 U.S.F. Constellation: Yankee Racehorse (history with E. M. Jameson), 1981 C.S. Forester, 1981 Padraic Colum, 1985 John Galsworthy, 1987 R. F. Delderfield, 1988 Stevie Smith, 1990 Stephen Spender, 1992 Siegfried Sassoon, 1993 Jean Rhys, 1997 A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama, 1998 C.S.Forester and the Hornblower Saga, 1999 Chaim Potok: A Critical Companion, 2000 A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama, 2002 Student Companion to Elie Wiesel, 2003 The Tenement Saga, 2004 A Reader’s Guide to Modern British Drama, 2004 Masterpieces of British and Irish Drama, 2005.
Edited Books:
(ed.) Selected Stories of Padraic Colum, 1985 (ed.) Selected Plays of Padraic Colum, 1986 (ed.) Selected Poems of Padraic Colum, 1989 (ed.) In Search of Stevie Smith, 1991
Co-Edited Books:
All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom, 1995 (co-ed. with Christopher Fitz-Simon) New Plays from the Abbey Theatre 1993-1995, 1996 New Plays from the Abbey Theatre 1996-1998, (co-ed. with Judy Friel) 2001 New Plays from the Abbey Theatre 1999-2001, (co-ed. with Judy Friel) 2003
Electronic Works:
CD-ROM: Macmillan Disc Lit 1994: British Authors: complete texts of John Galsworthy, Stevie Smith, and Stephen Spender. Second edition CD-Rom and online version: Macmillan Disc. Lit.1997: English Authors: complete texts of John Galsworthy, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender, and Sigfried Sassoon.
Online: Arts & Entertainment Online Moderator for the Emmy Award-winning miniseries: Horatio Hornblower, 1999-2000. “ John Galsworthy,” Literary Encyclopedia, 2005. “C. S. Forester,” Literary Encyclopedia, 2005.
Book chapters, sections, and articles:
"Hamlet: Six Characters in Search of a Play" in An Introduction to Drama and Criticism, 1971 "Samuel Beckett" in British Winners of the Nobel Literary Prize, 1973 "Padraic and Mary Colum: Bridging Worlds--Dublin and New York, “Poetry and Criticism, Women and Men" in Politics and the Rhetoric of Poetry: Perspectives on Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry, 1995 "W. Somerset Maugham," "John Masefield," and "John Galsworthy," in Twentieth-Century Britain: an Encyclopedia, 1995 "Padraic Colum" in Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, 1997 "Siegfried Sassoon" in Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists Between the Wars, Vol. 191, 1998 "Synge on Film: Two Playboys" in Contemporary Irish Film: from The Quiet Man to Dancing at Lughnasa, 1999 “Padraic Colum” and “James Herriot” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 “John Galsworthy,” and “C.S. Forester” in The Literary Encyclopedia (on-line), 2005 “Sigfried Sassoon” in the Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, 2005.
Awards:
Syracuse University graduate fellowship, 1962. Writing fellowship from the Poetry Society of America, 1963. Leverhulme Visiting Fellow in the University of York, England, 1965. Member of the Globe Playhouse Trust (London), from 1972-1977. State University of New York Chancellor's Medal for Excellence in Teaching, 1974. SUNY Research Fellowships were granted in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, and 1970. Teacher of the Year at University College, Syracuse University, 1986. The British Council awarded him a 1994 Research and Travel Grant to Northern Ireland The English-Speaking Union awarded him Sir Evelyn Wrench Travel/Lecture Grants in 1997, 1998, and 1999 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Participant: "100 Years of Modern Irish Theatre," Indiana University 1999.
Sternlicht's many articles on subjects from Shakespeare to Graham Greene have appeared in such journals as Renaissance Papers, College English, English Record, Ball State Forum, Harvard Magazine, Minnesota Review, Florida Review, Writer's Digest, Studies in the Humanities, Journal of Hamlet Studies, and Calcutta Review (India), New York Times, Writer's Digest, U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings. His poetry has appeared in over 100 publications throughout the world including The New York Times, The New York Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Saturday Evening Post, Dalhousie Review (Canada), Fiddlehead (Canada), Canadian Forum, Poetry Review (London), Contemporary Poetry of the United States (Paris), United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Our Navy, Navy Magazine, Rudder.
He has presented papers for the International Federation of Modern Language Associations (Sydney, Islamabad), the International Shakespeare Association (Vancouver, Stratford), the International Association for Anglo-Irish Studies (Leiden), American Conference for Irish Studies (Dublin, Belfast), Canadian Association for Irish Studies (Montreal), World Congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research (Stockholm), Shakespeare Association of America, MLA, NEMLA, Southern Renaissance Conference, The Medieval Institute, Smithsonian Institute, American Numismatic Association, American Numismatic Society, Northeast Popular Culture Conference, and many other organizations. He has made radio broadcasts for RTE 1 (Ireland), Radio Dublin, WNYC NY, and the BBC Home Service, and has read his poetry over the BBC Overseas Service.
Sternlicht is a member of PEN and is listed in Who's Who in America, Who’s Who in American Education, and Contemporary Authors.
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