Dr Jim Fitzmaurice
Room 5.13, Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
Fax: +44 (0)114-222-8481
email : J.Fitzmaurice@sheffield.ac.uk
Jim Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University Emeritus Professor of English, is Director of Distance Learning for the School of English at the University of Sheffield. He is convenor of Sheffield's online MA in English. See link below.
MA in English Studies (Online)
Education
- BA, Comparative Literature, Occidental College (Los Angeles)
- MA, English, California State University, Long Beach
- PhD, English, The University of Iowa
Academic Posts at Northern Arizona University
- Professor of English, 1992 - 2008
- Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English, 1997 – 2002, 2003 – 2004
- Coordinator of Statewide English Programs, 2004 – 2005
Other Academic Posts
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 1981
- Guest Professor, University of Tübingen, 1986
- Visiting Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University, 1993
- Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, 1996
Academic Honors
- Honors Program Professor of the Year, Northern Arizona University, 1991
- Teaching Scholar Award, Northern Arizona University, 1995
- President's Award, Northern Arizona University, 2001
Professional Associations
- President, The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 1993 - 1995
- President, Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1997
- President, International Margaret Cavendish Society, 2008 - 2010
Major External Grants
- Project Director, “Current Shakespeare Scholarship and the Secondary Classroom,” a project to create a website with 150 lesson plans and a supporting DVD in which Shakespeare scholars are interviewed. A joint effort of Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, the University of Arizona , and The University of Sheffield. Arizona Board of Regents, Project total: $110,000
- Project Director, "American Indian Literature in Context." Five-week summer institute for secondary teachers in Tuba City, AZ. National Endowment for the Humanities (US), 2001, Project total: $152,320
- Project Director: "English Literature and the Rise of Representative Government," National Endowment for the Humanities (US), 1984. Project total: $68,000
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