Professor Bertram received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego and his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests include sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature and culture, critical theory, and film studies. His new book entitled The Time is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's England (University of Delaware Press) was released in December of 2004. He has also published two essays on postmodernism and politics: "The Spectrality of the Sixties" in Historicizing Theory (SUNY, 2004) and "New Reflections on the "Revolutionary" Politics of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe" in boundary 2 22 (1995).
Professor Bertram is currently teaching College Writing, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, and Performance Genres. Courses previously taught include Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Film, Queen Elizabeth I (seminar), Topics in the Renaissance: Science and Literature, Marlowe and Shakespeare, Introduction to Literature, Introduction to Literary Studies, Contemporary Critical Theory, Topics in the Renaissance: Popular Culture, and English Renaissance Literature.
This semester, Spring 2005, he is teaching English 361: Shakespeare, English 456: Seminar: Pleasures of Playgoing and one section of English 120: Introduction to Literature.
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