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ENGL 110 College Writing
ENGL 150 Freshmen Year Seminar
ENGL 150 Roots: Literature
ENGL 245 Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 292 Literary London (taught abroad in London)
ENGL 292 Shakespeare, God, and Prison (crosslisted with RELS 292 as part of the E3MC Program)
ENGL 306 Introduction to Literary Study
ENGL 329 Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Hamlet
ENGL 330 Shakespeare after Hamlet
ENGL 343 Studies in Renaissance Literature: The Art of Dying
ENGL 370 Milton and Seventeenth Century Poetry
ENGL 395 Senior Seminar
ENGL 399 Independent Study: Marlowe and Jonson
Current Research:
A book length project that examines the relationship among dreaming, sleeping, and theatrical experience in Shakespeare's plays and poems.
Publications:
Sleeping and Dreaming on Shakespeare’s Stage (In progress)
Monuments and Literary Posterity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
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"Middleton's Monument and Theatrical Legacy." Memory and Mortality in the English Renaissance. Eds. William Engel and Grant Williams. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Book Review: Chris Fitter, Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe: Western Anti-monarchism, the Earl of Essex Challenge, and Political Stagecraft (Routledge, 2021), Modern Philology, Volume 119, Number 1 (August 2021).
“Slumbery Agitations: Sleep Deprivation in Macbeth,” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Volume 20.4 (Fall 2020): 62-88.
“‘The Heaviness of Sleep’: Monarchical Exhaustion in King Lear.” Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance. Eds. Margaret Simon and Nancy Simpson-Younger. Penn State University Press, 2020. 127-146.
“Thomas Dekker.” A critical biographical essay. British Writers Supplement XXIV, Ed. Jay Parini. (Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson-Gale, 2017): 91-108
“Jonson’s Textual Monument,” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 52.2 (Spring 2012): 387-405.
“Webster’s ‘Worthyest Monument’: The Problem of Posterity in The Duchess of Malfi,” Studies in Philology 108.3 (Summer 2011): 379-402.
A portion of this article was reprinted in the critical section of the Norton Edition of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, ed. Michael Neill. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
“‘Fearful Meditations’: Pondering Posterity in Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” St. John’s University Humanities Review Spring 2010
Selected Conference Papers:
“Prisoners of our Actions: Teaching Hamlet on Rikers Island,” 49th Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2021 (Remote).
Invited Lecture: “Dreaming of Death in Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra.” Warburg Institute Conference: Memory and Mortality in Early Modern England, London, England, May 2019.
“Gendered Dreams in Spenser and Shakespeare. Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., April 2019.
“Middleton’s Monuments.” Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, LA, March 2018
“I can no longer hold me patient”: Competing Playwriting Characters in Richard III.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 2017
“‘The Heaviness of Sleep’: Monarchical Exhaustion in King Lear.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 2016
“Fletcher’s Monument: Dynasty and Collaborative Posterity in Henry VIII.”, Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, DE, March, 2015.
“‘Murdering Sleep’: Macbeth, Dreams, and the Boundaries of Theatrical Reality.” 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
“’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