Gold Shield Alumnae

Professor Albert H. Braunmuller

1994 Faculty Prize Recipient

Albert Braunmuller received his B.A. from Stanford in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1971. That same year, he joined the faculty of the UCLA English Department. He is an internationally renowned scholar of Shakespeare and Renaissance Dramatic Literature. He has served as president of the Renaissance English Text Society, serves on the editorial board of the Shakespeare Quarterly, and has provided editorial services both to the Oxford University Press and to the Cambridge University Press, as well as other publishing houses. He is one of three general editors of the New Cambridge Shakespeare, a multi-volume edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays. He has been awarded five fellowships in the humanities including the National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.

In his research, Dr. Braunmuller has devoted himself to producing an edited version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, including a line-by-line commentary. With arduous research and editing, he has focused on removing all of the portions written by a Shakespeare contemporary, Thomas Middleton. The resulting revised version will be as true to the original Shakespeare as is possible to reconstruct.

Dr. Braunmuller, who chaired the Chancellor’s Committee on Instructional Improvement for 15 years, has made “exemplary contributions to course development and the UCLA undergraduate curriculum.” A recipient of the UCLA Harvey L. Eby Award for the Art of Teaching, Albert Braunmuller is described as a “charismatic professor who is revered by his students.”