Jonathan Baldo has taught at Eastman since 1983. In 2000, Baldo was awarded one of 65 fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, which enabled him to take a year's leave of absence to write a book on the subject of the rising national consciousness in Elizabethan England as reflected in Shakespeare's plays.
Baldo's first book on Shakespeare, The Unmasking of Drama: Contested Representation in Shakespearean Tragedy (Wayne State University Press), was published in 1996. He has also published numerous articles and reviews in English Literary Renaissance, Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Drama, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Modern Language Quarterly, Criticism, Theatre Journal, Shakespeare Studies, Semiotica, and Journal of the Kafka Society of America. An essay, "The Reader on Trial: Or, Is Reading Necessarily an Injudicious Act?" was published in Critical Essays on Franz Kafka, ed. Ruth V. Gross (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990). His essay "Solitude as an Effect of Language in Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad," was recently reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, a volume in Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations Series. Two of his articles will soon be going to press: "Scotland's Unusable Past," forthcoming in Macbeth: New Critical Essays, ed. Nick Moschovakis (Routledge, 2007); and "Forgetting Elizabeth in Henry VIII," forthcoming in Resurrecting Elizabeth I in Seventeenth-Century Texts, edited by Elizabeth H. Hageman and Katherine Conway (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007).
He has presented papers throughout the United States, Canada, and the U.K., including "(Nec)romancing the Past in Henry VIII," at the Shakespeare Association of America in 1997, "'The music of forgetting': Mozart, Nietzsche, and the SATs," at the Northeast Modern Language Association conference in Montreal in 1996, and "Stages of Forgetfulness in Shakespeare's Histories," for the World Shakespeare Congress in Los Angeles in 1996. That paper was winner of an open submissions competition (one of two to four papers selected by blind review), an honor he has won on four occasions from both the International Shakespeare Association and the Shakespeare Association of America.
Other awards and honors include a Bridging Fellowship from the University of Rochester in 1990, the University Junior Faculty Award in 1989, and a Tuition Fellowship from The School of Criticism and Theory, Northwestern University, 1983.
Baldo received his BA in English from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Prior to joining the Eastman faculty, he was a lecturer in the English department of the University of Florida, Gainesville.
