Richard Mace, Ph.D.

Professor Richard Mace has been teaching literature for more than fifteen years. His primary research focuses on narrative form and culture and identity in Native American Literature, but he has also extensively studied and presented research papers on modes of chivalry and warfare, expectations of knighthood, and elements of the supernatural in Medieval Literature, as well as misogyny and the ethics and morality of revenge in Early Modern Tragedies.

Prof. Mace is an avid reader of most literatures, in particular: Greek and Latin classics (Aeschylus, Plautus, Euripides), Medieval Literature (Chaucer, Chretien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances), Early Modern Lit (especially revenge tragedies: Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton), American Literature (Twain, Hemingway, Emerson), African American Literature (Du Bois, Hurston, Morrison, Hughes), Native American Literature (Momaday, Silko, Erdrich, Alexie), and Japanese Literature (Saikaku, Soseki, Murakami, Mishima).