faculty interest info : english

faculty interest info : english

Brater, Enoch. Ph.D., Harvard, 1971. Professor. Primary Interests: Dramatic literature, theater, and performance; Beckett.

Gregerson, Linda. Ph.D., Stanford, 1987. Associate Professor, Director of the Program in Creative Writing. Primary Interests: Literature and culture of the English Renaissance; historical subject formation; the politics of Reformation and early modern nationalism; Petrarchan lyric; Elizabethan and Stuart drama; contemporary American poetry. Secondary Interests: History and theory of performance. Publications: The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (Houghton Mifflin, 1996); The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (Cambridge University Press, 1995); Fire in the Conservatory (Dragon Gate Press, 1982); essays in ELH, Criticism, Prose Studies, Milton Studies, An Uncertain Union: The British Problem in Renaissance Literature, and Bilder der nation: Kulturelle and politische Konstruktionen des Nationalen Am Beginn der europaeischen Moderne; poems, reviews and review-essays in Poetry, The Atlantic, Partisan Review, Grand Street, Parnassus, Ploughshares, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Orion, The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Joe.

Jensen, Ejner. Ph.D., Tulane, 1965. Professor. Director, Sweetland Writing Center Primary Interests: Renaissance Drama; Ben Jonson; Shakespeare; satire; comedy. Secondary Interests: Modern poetry; theater history; George Orwell. Publications: Shakespeare and the Ends of Comedy (Indiana University Press, 1991); Ben Jonson's Comedies on the Modern Stage (UMI Research Press, 1985); The Future of Nineteen Eighty-Four (editor, University of Michigan Press, 1984); John Marston, Dramatist: Themes and Imagery in the Plays (Jacobean Drama Series, 1979); articles on Kyd, Marlowe, Renaissance satire, Shakespeare, Richard Wilbur, Shakespeare in modern poetry, Howard Nemerov.

Knott, John. Ph.D., Harvard, 1966. Professor. Primary Interests: Milton; Bunyan; the Reformation in English literature (and English Puritanism); contemporary nature writing and literature of the American wilderness. Secondary Interests: John Foxe and the literature of martyrdom. Publications: Discourses of Martyrdom in English Literature, 1563-1694 (Cambridge University Press, 1993); The Sword of the Spirit: Puritan Responses to the Bible (University of Chicago, 1980); Milton's Pastoral Vision: An Approach to "Paradise Lost" (University of Chicago Press, 1971); articles and chapters on Milton, Bunyan, Browne, Spenser, George Fox, Quaker culture, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry.

Mazzio, Carla. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998. Assistant Professor, Society of Fellows. Primary Interests: Early modern literature and culture, rhetoric, orality and performance, literature and science (particularly mathematics), history of the book. Secondary Interests: Chaucer and Medieval Literature, pedagogy and computer technology (literary and cultural theory), gender theory. Publications: Social Control and the Arts: An International Perspective, editor, with Susan Suleiman, Alice Jardine, and Ruth Perry (Cambridge: New Cambridge Press, 1991); The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, editor, with David Hillman (New York: Routhledge, 1997), and Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture, editor, with Douglas Trevor (forthcoming from Routhledge). In addition to contributions to these volumes, other essays include, "Staging the Vernacular: language and Nation in The Spanish Tragedy," in Studies in English Literature (Spring, 1998), and "Sins of the Tongue in Early Modern England," in Modern Language Studies (Spring, 1999).

Mullaney, Steven. Ph.D., Stanford, 1982. Associate Professor. Primary Interests: Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; contemporary cultural and literary theory; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century colonial discourse. Secondary Interests: Popular culture; science fiction. Publications: "Mourning and Misogyny: Hamlet, The Revenger's Tragedy, and the Final Progress of Elizabeth I, 1600-1607," Shakespeare Quarterly 45:2 (1994): 1--23; "Playing on the Margins: The Social and Cultural Situation of the English Renaissance Stage," The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 3, ed. Glynn Norton (Cambridge University Press, 1994-95); The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England (University of Chicago Press, 1988); "Brothers and Others, or the Arts of Alienation," in Cannibals, Witches, and Diverse: Estranging the Renaissance, ed. Marjorie Garber (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987); "Strange Things, Gross Terms, Curious Customs: The Rehearsal of Cultures in the Late Renaissance," Representations 1:3, 1983; "Lying Like Truth: Riddle, Representation, and Treason in Renaissance England," ELH, 1980.

Parrish, Scotti. Ph.D., Stanford, 1998. Assistant Professor. (Winter Term) Primary Interest: Colonial and Early National British-American literature and culture, 1585-1830; natural history; history of science; travel literature; correspondence networks; material culture. Secondary Interest: Colonial Spanish- and French-American literature; 19th-century U.S. literature; theory and history of film and photography; feminist theory and criticism. Publications: "The Female Opossum and the Nature of the New World," William and Mary Quarterly, (July, 1997).

Schoenfeldt, Michael. Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1985. Associate Professor Primary Interests: Renaissance literature; Renaissance history; gender and cultural studies. Secondary Interests: Medieval; restoration; theory. Publications: Bodies and Selves in Earth Modern English: The Physiology of Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton (under contract at Cambridge University Press; forthcoming 1999); "Fables of the Belly in Early Modern England," in The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Culture, ed. David Hillman and Carla Mazzio (New York: Routledge, 1997); "The Gender of Relgious Devotion: Amelia Lanyer and John Donne," in Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance, ed. Debora Shuger and Claire McEachern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), "Gender and Conduct in Paradise Lost" in Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Texts, Images, ed. James G. Turner (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and many other articles.

Taylor, Karla. Ph.D., Stanford, 1983. Associate Professor. Primary Interests: Chaucer; Dante; Middle English literature; 14th-century English-Italian literary and cultural relations; medieval ideas of history and literature. Secondary Interests: Narrative theory; medieval Dutch literature; history of the English language; linguistic theory and earlier texts; proverbs. Publications: "Chaucer's Uncomon Voice: Some Contexts for Influence," in B.D. Schilelgen and L.M. Koff, eds., Chaucer and Boccaccio (forthcoming, 1999); "Inferno 5 and Troilus and Criseyde Revisited," in R.A. Shoaf, ed., Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, MRTS (SUNY Press, 1992); "Chaucer's Reticent Merchant," in James Dean and Christian Zacher, ed., The Idea of Medieval Literature (University of Delaware Press, 1992); Chaucer Reads the 'Divine Comedy' (Stanford University Press, 1989); "From superbo Ilion to umile Italia: The Acrostic of Paradiso 19" (Stanford Italian Review, 7, 1987); "A Text and Its Afterlife: Dante and Chaucer" (Comparative Literature, 35, 1983); "Proverbs and the Authentication of Convention in Troilus and Criseyde" (Barney, ed., Chaucer's Troilus: Essays in Criticism, Archon, 1980).

Tinkle, Theresa. Ph.D., UCLA, 1989. Associate Professor. (on leave, year) Primary Interests: Medieval languages and literature; sexuality; tornado safety; critical theory; women writers. Publications: "The Case of the Variable Source: Alan of Lille's De Planctu Naturae, Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose, and Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls," Studies in the Age of Chaucer (forthcoming); The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture, co-edited with George Bornstein (UM, 1989); Medieval Venues and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry (Stanford, 1996); The Hearts Eye: Beatific Vision in Purity (SP 85, 1988); "Saturn of the Several Faces: A Survey of the Medieval Mythographic Traditions" (Viator 18, 1987).

Toon, Thomas. (see Linguistics)

Traub, Valerie. Ph.D., Massachusetts-Amherst, 1990. Associate Professor. Graduate Chair Primary Interest: Early modern cultural studies, especially Renaissance drama; gender studies and the history of sexuality. Secondary Interest: Early modern anatomy and cartography; feminist theory. Publications: "Mapping the Global Body" (1999); "Sex without Issue: Sodomy, Reproduction, and Signification in Shakespeare's Sonnet," Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critcal Essays, ed. James Schiffer (1998); "Gendering Mortality in Early Modern Anatomies" (1996); editor, Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (Cambridge UP, 1996); Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992); "The Perversion of Lesbian Desire," History Workshop Journal (1996); "The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris," GLQ (1995); "The (In)Significance of Lesbian Desire in Early Modern England," Erotic Politics, ed. Susan Zimmerman (Routledge 1992).

White, James Boyd. (see Law)

Williams, Ralph. Ph.D., Michigan, 1969. Professor. Interim Associate Chair Primary Interests: Comparative literature (particularly Greek, Latin, Italian, French, German, Spanish); the theory of literature; English and continental Renaissance Literature; Medieval and Renaissance art history; Bible; Dante, rhetoric; Nietzsche. Secondary Interests: The Pastoral and satire, especially through the eighteenth-century. Publications: Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities (co-editor; University of Michigan Press, 1993); Marcus Hieronymous Vida: De arte poetica (Columbia University, 1976); Love and Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature (University of Michigan Press, 1976).

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