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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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