Gideon Rappaport has taught Shakespeare, British Literature, and Humanities at Hamilton College, SUNY Cortland, Concordia University, and the University of New Hampshire, and at The Bishop’s School and La Jolla Country Day School in La Jolla, California. His publications include “Measuring Measure for Measure” in Renascence, “Hamlet: Revenge and Readiness” in The Upstart Crow, Dusk and Dawn:  Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, as well as various reviews and articles for Ararat, Independent School magazine, the Washington Independent Review of Books, and the San Diego Reader.

He has also served as theatrical dramaturge for professional theatres including the Old Globe Theatre, the California Shakespeare Festival, the British-American Youth Festival Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the North Coast Repertory Theatre, the Intrepid Theatre, and the Poor Players, the New Fortune Theater Company, the Coronado Community Theater, and the online Working Actor’s Journey, as well as on school productions for The Bishop’s School and La Jolla Country Day School, and the film Complete Works on Hulu. He has lectured on literature, poetry, humanities, and in particular Shakespeare for continued learning programs at the University of California at San Diego and the University of San Diego, for the Honors Seminars of the San Diego City Schools, for Friends of the Library in several cities, for the San Diego Shakespeare Society, for conventions of the National Association of Independent Schools and of the California Association of Independent Schools, and regularly offers evening adult courses for community audiences. He has an honors B.A. in English Literature and Art History from Cowell College, University of California at Santa Cruz, and an M.A and Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University.

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