June Schlueter


Dr. June Schlueter is Charles A. Dana Professor Emerita of English at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Her areas of specialty are Shakespeare, Early Modern England, and Modern Drama. She is married to Dr. Paul Schlueter, who is a specialist in English literature. Dr. Schlueter has taught at Lafayette College since 1977 where she has taught: Modern Drama ; Shakespeare; The London Theatre ; Drama Survey ; Tudor and Stuart Drama; introductory writing and literature courses; British literature survey; Major American Writers; introductory writing and literature courses; interdisciplinary courses on the McCarthy era and on literature, science, and technology; advised student dramatic productions. From 1993 until 2006 she was Provost of Lafayette College. Dr. Schlueter has served on the Board of Trustees for Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Dr. Schlueter has a B.A. Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, NJ, an M.A. from Hunter College, New York, NY in English and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature.

Books written

  • Metafictional Characters in Modern Drama. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
  • *Review, Theatre Journal, May, 1980, vol. 32, no. 2, p. 272-273
  • *Review, Modern Language Journal, Summer, 1980, vol. 64, no. 2, p. 279-280
  • The Plays and Novels of Peter Handke. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.
  • *Review, German Quarterly, May, 1983, vol. 56, no. 3, p. 526-527
  • Arthur Miller. New York: Ungar, 1987.
  • Reading Shakespeare in Performance: King Lear. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1991.
  • *Review, Shakespeare Quarterly, Autumn, 1993, vol. 44, no. 3, p. 367-369
  • Dramatic Closure: Reading the End. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1995.
  • *Review, The Modern Language Review, Jan., 1998, vol. 93, no. 1, p. 163
  • The Album Amicorum and the London of Shakespeare’s Time. London: The British Library, 2011.

Books edited

  • The English Novel: Twentieth Century Criticism, Vol. 2: Twentieth Century Novelists. Athens: Ohio UP, 1982.
  • Modern American Literature, Supplement II. New York: Ungar, 1985.
  • An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988. Reprinted in substantial part in Wilson, Katharina M. and Paul and June Schlueter, ed. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Second, revised and expanded ed. .
  • Feminist Rereadings of Modern American Drama. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1989.
  • Modern American Drama: The Female Canon. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1990.
  • Approaches to Teaching Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. New York: Modern Language Ass’n., 1991.
  • Critical Essays: The Two Gentlemen of Verona. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
  • Francis A. March: Selected Writings of the First Professor of English. Easton, PA: Lafayette College, 2005.
  • Acts of Criticism: Performance Matters in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2006.
  • ''Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare''

Chapters in reference books

  • “Brian Friel.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Dramatists Since World War II. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982.
  • "August Strindberg.” Critical Survey of Drama. LaCanada, CA: Salem P, 1986.
  • Modern Drama section of Books for College Libraries. Middletown, CT: Books for College Libraries, 1988.
  • “David Mamet.” and “Arthur Miller.” Contemporary American Dramatists, Bibliography Series. Ed. Matthew J. Roudané. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989.
  • “T. S. Eliot.”, and “Eugene O’Neill.”, The Biographical Dictionary of the Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature. Ed. Rado Pribic. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.
  • “Peter Handke.” Exile and Displacement: An Encyclopedia of a Twentieth Century Literary Phenomenon. Ed. Martin Tucker. Westport: Greenwood P, 1991.
  • “Arthur Asher Miller.” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 1960s, vol. 2. Ed. William L. O’Neill. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 75–77.

Editorships