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Professor Yoch's research
interests include Shakespeare, Italian Renaissance drama, movies
1930-1942, and connections between literature and landscape. His
articles have appeared in Studies in Philology (luminous
palaces in Stuart masques), Forum Italicum (Tasso's Aminta
and the gardens of Ferrara), and Architectural Digest (landscaped
sets in movies including Gone With the Wind). His essays on
Renaissance tragicomedy and The Faithful Shepherdess appeared
in Genre and Politics, on the staging of Italian pastorals in Elizabethan
Theatre, and on Shakespeare's pastorals in Shakespeare and
Pageantry. With Eugene Enrico, he has produced an hour-long video
with Emma Kirkby starring as Isabella d'Este, First Lady of the
Renaissance. From an ongoing interest in American studies, he has
published The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972 and
the Guide to Villa Philbrook and its Gardens. His forthcoming Dreamer
on the Golden Shore: Phineas Banning in California 1851-1885
explores Greek Revival style, romantic literature and rhetoric, and
American entrepreneurship by developing themes begun in his class in
Rural Pleasures: the Ideal of the Countryside in Art and Literature.
His teaching interests
focus on students as active participants, and he encourages them to
perform plays, compose tv and film scripts based on canonical
literature, and create cartoon series and paintings in response to
readings. He teaches undergraduate classes in Shakespeare, the
classical and continental backgrounds of the Renaissance, and drama.
His graduate seminars have studied the Masque; Shakespeare: Performance
Theory, Film, and Computers; and Neoclassicism in the Renaissance
English Stage.
Venues in which he has
lectured recently include Word and Image conferences (Dublin,
Claremont), Scripps Humanities Symposium, the Detroit Museum of Art,
New York's Central Park Conservancy, the San Diego Art Museum, the
Huntington Library, and the California Historical Society/San Francisco.
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