Jay Farness
Professor, Renaissance literature
Office: LA (Bldg 18) Room 102
(928) 523-6258
Jay.Farness@nau.edu
Jay Farness earned a B.A., 1969, at St. Olaf College and M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has taught at NAU since 1976, offering courses in writing, ancient and comparative literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance and Romantic British literature, and literary criticism. His survey, period, and author courses emphasize literary interpretation as a method for culture history. In 1991, Penn State U. Press published Missing Socrates: Problems of Plato's Writing. An elementary writing textbook he wrote with Peder Jones--College Writing Skills--is going into its fifth edition in 2002. He has published essays and reviews on Plato, Cervantes, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Coleridge in PMLA, Philological Quarterly, Arethusa, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Shakespeare Studies, Translation Review, and other journals and collections.