Harry Keyishian is Professor Emeritus of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and serves on the Editorial Board of Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
12 Facts About Harry Keyishian
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Harry Keyishian directed Fairleigh Dickinson University Press from 1977 to 2017 and worked extensively on William Shakespeare and Armenian literature.
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Harry Keyishian was born in The Bronx, New York, and raised in Queens, attending local public schools and Forest Hills High School.
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In September, 1961, Harry Keyishian joined the English Department at the University of Buffalo, from which he was terminated in February 1964 for refusing to sign a then-required "loyalty" oath that he was not a member of the Communist Party.
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Harry Keyishian defended his dissertation, Thomas Dekker and the Rival Traditions at New York University in 1965, supervised by Professor Elkin Calhoun Wilson, and joined the faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University in the same year.
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Harry Keyishian retired as Professor Emeritus in 2010 but continued as Director of Fairleigh Dickinson University Press until 2017, for which he now serves on the Editorial Board.
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From 1976 to 1985, Harry Keyishian served as co-editor, with Martin Green and Walter Cummins, of The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing.
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Harry Keyishian's published books are Michael Arlen, Collected Essays on William Saroyan, The Shapes of Revenge: Victimization, Vindictiveness, and Vengeance in Shakespeare, and Screening Politics.
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Harry Keyishian has published numerous essays and reviews in scholarly journals and magazines on a range of literary and theatrical topics.
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Harry Keyishian wrote extensively for and served on the Editorial Board of the quarterly journal Ararat Quarterly, published by the Armenian General Benevolent Union.
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Harry Keyishian is a member of the Modern Language Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, the International Shakespeare Association, and the Columbia University Seminar on Shakespeare.
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Harry Keyishian was married to the late Marjorie Deiter Harry Keyishian, a poet, fiction writer, and journalist who taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University.