Contacts

Class A, section 1
Cheri Ross
Associate Director, Introduction to the Humanities Program
Assistant Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education
clross@stanford.edu

Cheri Ross received her Ph.D. in English from Stanford, specializing in Renaissance poetry and drama. Her research interests include the plays of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson as well as the work of Virginia Woolf and the semiotics of natural history museums. In 2001 Cheri won the Dinkelspiel Award for distinctive contributions to undergraduate education at Stanford.

Class A, section 2
Edward Steidle
Lecturer in English
steidle@stanford.edu

Edward Steidle joined the Stanford English faculty in 1984. His area of specialization is medieval art and literature. He is currently working on comparative approaches to the study of ancient European, Asian, and Central American cultures. He also leads travel groups to historical sites in Italy and the Aegean.

Class B
Richard Cushman
Lecturer in English
rcushman@stanford.edu

Richard Cushman holds a Ph.D. in English from UC Berkeley, with specializations in late medieval and Renaissance lyric poetry and drama. His interests include religious and erotic poetry, including the sonnet sequence, Shakespeare, and Renaissance humanism. He is also a choir director and organist. Associated with Stanford since 1993, Richard Cushman received the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997.

Class B
Renee Courey
Lecturer, Introduction to the Humanities Program
rcourey@stanford.edu

Renee Courey has a PhD in History from UC Berkeley, where she studied the effects of language and cultural beliefs on scientific development and regulation. She has taught for ten years in Stanford's freshman humanities programs, where her focus has broadened to include literary texts. Her current interests include modern vs. post-modern views of perception and selfhood.