ANDREW J. MAJESKE

Andrew Majeske, associate professor of English, received his doctorate from the University of California Davis, where he specialized in the
intersection of law and literature in the English Renaissance. He also holds a law degree from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Masters
degree in literature from Duquesne University. He was a practicing attorney from 1986 to 1997, first in Chicago, and later in Pittsburgh. In 2006 his book entitled Equity in English Renaissance Literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser was published by Routledge Press. He is currently coediting a book of essays on legal issues in English Renaissance Drama, in which his essay on Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" will appear. He teaches the early literature survey course, and is on tap to teach Shakespeare, and various law and literature offerings once the new English Major is implemented. Those students interested in going on to law school will be interested to know that in addition to his experience practicing law and teaching, he spent two years as one of the writers of the LSAT, and he has taught legal writing and appellate advocacy at the law school level.