In Ty Buckman’s office hangs a framed, five-foot tall Hamlet poster he surreptitiously liberated from the Royal Shakespeare Company box office in London in 1989, one staple at a time. As penance for the theft, he began graduate school in English at the University of Virginia the following year and has been studying and teaching the bard and his contemporaries ever since. At Wittenberg, he has taught courses on the literature and culture of 1590s London, alienation in western literature, and the idea of metamorphosis, as well as an introduction to literary studies, a first-year seminar on 'new worlds in the old world', and expository writing. He is nowhere more at home, however, than in the hurly-burly of British Survey I, where he returns with his students to the parade of literary works that first drew him to the study of British literature. Professor Buckman wrote his dissertation on Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene and his scholarly work continues to focus on early modern literature and history. His articles and reviews have appeared in Spenser Studies, Renaissance Papers, Studies in the Literary Imagination, Teaching Renaissance Texts, The Sixteenth-Century Journal, The Sociological Quarterly, Faculty Development, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere, and he has presented his work at numerous academic conferences and professional meetings in the United States, Canada, and England.