Lisa Schnell

Associate Professor

Alma mater(s)
  • Ph.D. Princeton University, 1989

Courses

  • Bible as Literature
  • Milton: Paradise Lost
  • Survey of British Literature to 1700
  • Eve and After: Women in the Bible
  • The Pursuit of Knowledge
  • Telling Stories: Truth & Narrative
  • Critical Approaches to Literature
  • The Bible: Literary & Historical Perspective
  • Shakespeare
  • Engendering Shakespeare
  • Texts and Contexts
  • 17th Century Poetry & Culture
  • Women, Men and Politics of Family in Genesis
  • Shakespeare & Renaissance Drama
  • Shakespeare's Women
  • Survey of Literary Theory and Criticism
  • King James Bible and Literary Study

Publications

Lisa Schnell Publications (DOCX)

Awards and Achievements

  • November, 2008: Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Award
  • March, 2007: Outstanding Faculty Woman Award (UVM)
  • April, 2006: Nominated for 2006 National Society of Collegiate Scholars Faculty of the Year Award (a national student-nominated award)
  • December 2004: Nominated for Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Award
  • 1999-2000: Humanities Fellowship, the Project on Death in America (a program of the Soros Open Society Institute). The fellowship allowed for a one-year research leave: December 15, 1999 - December 15, 2000.
  • April, 1999: Graduate Teaching Award, UVM
  • Summer, 1998: University of Vermont Instructional Incentive Grant
  • Summer, 1996: UCRS Summer Grant: Graduate College, UVM (with Andrew Barnaby)
  • Summer, 1993: UCRS Summer Grant: Graduate College, UVM University of Vermont Instructional Incentive Grant
  • 1988-99: Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction (Doctoral Fellowship), Province of Alberta Heritage Foundation
  • Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship
  • Summer, 1988: Donald and Mary Hyde Short-Term Fellowship for Research Abroad, Princeton University
  • Theodora Bonsaquet Bursary, British Federation of University Women

Area(s) of expertise

Renaissance, Shakespeare, 17th-century British, Bible as literature, critical theory, Women's studies

Courses

  • Bible as Literature
  • Milton: Paradise Lost
  • Survey of British Literature to 1700
  • Eve and After: Women in the Bible
  • The Pursuit of Knowledge
  • Telling Stories: Truth & Narrative
  • Critical Approaches to Literature
  • The Bible: Literary & Historical Perspective
  • Shakespeare
  • Engendering Shakespeare
  • Texts and Contexts
  • 17th Century Poetry & Culture
  • Women, Men and Politics of Family in Genesis
  • Shakespeare & Renaissance Drama
  • Shakespeare's Women
  • Survey of Literary Theory and Criticism
  • King James Bible and Literary Study

Awards and Achievements

  • November, 2008: Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Award
  • March, 2007: Outstanding Faculty Woman Award (UVM)
  • April, 2006: Nominated for 2006 National Society of Collegiate Scholars Faculty of the Year Award (a national student-nominated award)
  • December 2004: Nominated for Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Award
  • 1999-2000: Humanities Fellowship, the Project on Death in America (a program of the Soros Open Society Institute). The fellowship allowed for a one-year research leave: December 15, 1999 - December 15, 2000.
  • April, 1999: Graduate Teaching Award, UVM
  • Summer, 1998: University of Vermont Instructional Incentive Grant
  • Summer, 1996: UCRS Summer Grant: Graduate College, UVM (with Andrew Barnaby)
  • Summer, 1993: UCRS Summer Grant: Graduate College, UVM University of Vermont Instructional Incentive Grant
  • 1988-99: Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction (Doctoral Fellowship), Province of Alberta Heritage Foundation
  • Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship
  • Summer, 1988: Donald and Mary Hyde Short-Term Fellowship for Research Abroad, Princeton University
  • Theodora Bonsaquet Bursary, British Federation of University Women

Areas of Expertise

Renaissance, Shakespeare, 17th-century British, Bible as literature, critical theory, Women's studies

Associations and Affiliations

Associations and Affiliations

  • Renaissance Society of America 
  • Modern Languages Association 
  • Shakespeare Association of America 
  • Society for the Study of Narrative