R. Allen Shoaf, former Marshall Scholar and Danforth Fellow, and recipient of two Fellowships of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is the author, editor, or compiler of 12 books, including CHAUCER'S BODY, SHAKESPEARE'S THEATER OF LIKENESS, and MILTON, POET OF DUALITY. Over the past 20 years in the University of Florida, he has won six teaching awards as well as the Alumni Professorship in the Department of English. With the late Julian Wasserman, he co-founded the prize-winning journal EXEMPLARIA. In 2007, he re-issued SIMPLE RULES, a book of poems, in an augmented and revised edition. Currently, he anticipates his second book of poems, EROTIC RECKONINGS, early in 2012 from New Plains Press/Summerfield Publishing. Here is a link to his complete curriculum vitae.
For recreation, his principal activities are gardening (23 rose bushes, 4 camelias, a lemon tree, two orange trees, a Japanese maple, hydrangeas, evergreen giant liriopes), bicycling, and singing (folk songs, art songs, some light opera).
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