Douglas E. Green
Professor of English
Memorial 223, Minneapolis Campus
green@augsburg.edu
Office: 612-330-1187
Fax: 612-330-1699

Here’s a poem I can’t get out of my mind; not surprisingly, it’s by Emily Dickinson:

The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside—

The Brain is deeper than the sea—
For—hold them—Blue to Blue—
The one the other will absorb—
As Sponges—Buckets—do—

The Brain is just the weight of God—
For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—
And they will differ—if they do—
As Syllable from Sound—

Don’t worry: it isn’t on the quiz.  Just enjoy it.

Areas of Teaching and Responsibility at Augsburg
Shakespeare; British, American, and World Drama; Criticism and Theory; Creative and Expository Writing; Film; Gender and Sexuality (Issues in Lesbian and Gay Studies); Faculty Adviser to QSU; Assessment Consultant for the Humanities and Fine Arts

Current Research and Writing Interests
Shakespeare, Film, Gender and Sexuality, Creative Writing

Most Recent Publications and Presentations
"A Tune Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves." Augsburg College 2007 Opening Convocation Speech. 8 September 2007. (NOTE: this is a 15 megabyte MP3 audio file)

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Park Square Theatre, and “The Merchant of Venice, Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company.” Shakespeare Bulletin 25.2 (Summer 2007): 45-49.

“Because It Hath No Bottom.” Poem of the Week. What Light Series.  MNartists.org. 14 May 2007 <http://mnartists.org/article.do?rid=146658>.

“Because It Hath No Bottom,” “A Topography of Love,” and “A Visit to Theresienstadt” (Poems). Public Reading, What Light Series.  Sponsored by Magers & Quinn, Booksellers, and MNartists.org. Magers & Quinn, Minneapolis. 6 May 2007.

“Reviewing (and) Shakespeare in Context(s).” Performance Criticism: The State of the Art. Dr. Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto, Seminar Leader. Shakespeare Association of America Meeting, San Diego, April 2007.

 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mu Performing Arts.” Shakespeare Bulletin 24.4 (Winter 2006): 69-72.

“Grain Elevator” (Poem). Stepping Stones, Writers’ Night (Public Reading), Northfield Arts Guild. 10 November 2006.

Organizer and Reader (along with many others). Public Reading of Ginsberg’s Howl on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Its Publication. Main Quad, Augsburg College. November 2006.

“When the Call Comes Who Answers? Vocation from Another Angle.” Follow-up Essay for Lilly Faculty Travel Seminar on Vocation, May 2006. September 2006.

“Hamlet, Guthrie Theater.” Shakespeare Bulletin 24.3 (Fall 2006): 84-88.

"Office Space: Or How I Spent 18 Years in the Closet at Augsburg."  Augsburg College Echo 23 September 2006: 7.  Rptd. in Augsburg Now  Spring 2006: 9.

"Pericles and As You Like It, Guthrie Theater."  Shakespeare Bulletin 23.3 (Fall 2005): 100-104.

"School Choice."  Writers’ Night: Errors and Comedy 2.1 (August 2005): 19.

"Henry V, Pigs Eye Theater."  Shakespeare Bulletin 23.2 (Summer 2005): 85-87.

"Estranging Bedfellows: Early Modern Cinema Today."  Shakespeare, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the Present.  Professors Evelyn Gajowski and Adrian Kiernander, Chairs.  2005 Shakespeare Association of America Meeting.  Bermuda.  17-19 March 2005.

"Rain" and "Don Quijote Broke My Pate." Murphy Square 2005: 10, 58.

"A Topography of Love."  Writers’ Night: All in the Family 1.2 (November 2004): 31.

"Romeo and Juliet, Guthrie Theater."  Shakespeare Bulletin 22.2 (Summer 2004): 81-84.

"Cenote: A Poem in Two Parts" and "Three Haiku: Impending Spring."  Murphy Square 2004: 28-29, 32.

Performance Workshop on Antony and Cleopatra.  Professor Audrey Stanley, Director.  2004 Shakespeare Association of America Meeting.  8-10 April 2004.

"Othello, Guthrie Theater."  Shakespeare Bulletin 22.1 (Spring 2004): 85-90.

"The Comedy of Errors, Guthrie Theater."  Shakespeare Bulletin 21.2 (Spring/Summer 2003): 40-41.

“Shakespeare, Branagh, and the ‘Queer Traitor’: Close Encounters in the Shakespearean Classroom.” The Reel Shakespeare. Ed. Lisa S. Starks and Courtney Lehmann.  Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2002. 191-211.

 “Desperately Seeking Desdemona: Film, Gender, and Shakespearean Tragedy.” Invited Presentation. New Approaches to Genre: Forms of Drama and the Drama of Forms. Dr. Heather Dubrow, Chair & Organizer (UW-Madison).  2003 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 27-29 March 2003.

“Why I Go to the Movies: An Open Letter to Film Professor Mitchell and Cowgill.” Augsburg College Echo 15 November 2003: 3, 5.

“After All,” “Isn’t It Pretty to Think So?” & “Pimples” (poems).  Murphy Square 2002: 6, 37, 50.

“Mnemosyne” and “Plaza Rosada: 15 August 1990” (poems).  Three Candles July 2001.  Ed. Steve Mueske. www.threecandles.org.

“Craft,” “Natural Selection,” and “Perfect Couple” (poems).  Rag Mag 17 (2001): 71-72.

“I pick my way” and “plenty” (poems).  Murphy Square 2001: 19, 38.

“Shakespeare in Love: Sexuality, Cinema, and the Literature Classroom.”  Invited Faculty Lecture.  Winter Will Power: An Undergraduate Shakespeare Colloquium.  St. Olaf College.  16-17 February 2001.

“Forever Blowing Bubbles: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Guthrie.” Shakespeare Bulletin 18.4 (Fall 2000): 26-27.

“The Preposterous Pleasures of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Queer Theories and the Difference They Make.”  In A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essays.  Ed. Dorothea Kehler.  New York: Garland, 1998.  369-97. (Reissued by Routledge, Nov. 2000, and excerpted in Shakespearean Criticism, Vol. 60 [Gale, 2001].)