Brian Chalk, PHD
Brian Chalk, PHD
Assistant Professor
Department : English
Email : brian.chalk@manhattan.edu
Phone : 718-862-7121
Office : MEM 419
Education
PHD, Brandeis University
MA, New York University
BA, James Madison University
Publications & Professional Activities
Current Research:
Raptures of Futurity:Monumentality and the Pursuit of Posterity in Jacobean Drama. A book length study that reevaluates the relationship between Jacobean dramatists and literary posterity by considering their work within the context of larger cultural preoccupations with memorialization.
Publications:
“‘Fearful Meditations’: Pondering Posterity in Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” St. John’s University Humanities Review Spring 2010
“Webster’s ‘Worthyest Monument’: The Problem of Posterity in The Duchess of Malfi,” Studies in Philology 108.3 (Summer 2011): 379-402.
“Jonson’s Textual Monument,” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 52.2 (Spring 2012): 387-405.
Selected Conference Papers:
“‘Murdering Sleep’: Macbeth, Dreams, and the Boundaries of Theatrical Reality.” (Revised), Shakespeare Association of America Meeting, Boston, MA, April 2012
Invited Lecture: “’Mocking Life’: Preemptive Commemoration in The Winter’s Tale.” James Madison University, October 2011.
“Staging Monuments in The Winter’s Tale.” Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, VA, October 2011
“’Mocking Life’: Preemptive Commemoration in The Winter’s Tale.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Bellevue, Washington, April 2011
“‘Murdering Sleep’: Macbeth, Dreams, and the Boundaries of Theatrical Reality.” Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, VA, October 2009
“’Let all things end’: Marlowe’s Mortality.” 37th Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., April 2009
“’Here I am my own ghost’: Webster's Symbols of Posterity.” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, April 2008
“Jonson’s Roman Originality.” 36th Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2008
“Theatrical Authority in Jonson's Sejanus.” Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, VA, October 2007
Honors & Awards
- NYU Faculty Seminar Participant, “Shakespeare and Early Modern Globilization”
- Honorable Mention, J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize, Shakespeare Association of America, 2011
- Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2009-2010
- Shakespeare Association of America Travel Award, 2008, 2009
- Brandeis University Provost’s Dissertation Expense Award, 2008
Professional Memberships
- Modern Language Association
- Shakespeare Association of America
- Renaissance Society of America
Other
- Interests: 16th- and 17th-century English literature, including drama, poetry, and prose; Shakespeare; literature and memorialization; origins of the Western Canon; Renaissance dream theory
Courses Taught/Teaching
ENGL 110 College Writing
ENGL 150 Roots: Literature
ENGL 245 Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 309 British Literature: Beowulf to the Augustan Age
ENGL 329 Shakespeare I
ENGL 330 Shakespeare II