Department of English

RECENT GRADUATES, DISSERTATIONS, PLACEMENTS, MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

2000:

Zubeda Jalalzai
Puritan Imperialisms:  The Limits of Identity and the Indian Missions of Massachusetts Bay.

1989:

John Mischo
The Economics of Desire: Patronage and Gender in the Elizabethan Sonnet Sequence. Assistant Professor, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma."'That use is not forbidden usury': Shakespeare's Procreation Sonnets and the Problem of Usury," in Subjects on the World's Stage, eds. David G. Allen and Robert A. White (Newark: U of Delaware P, 1995): 262-79.

Christopher Roark
The Wise Fool in Shakespeare: A Dramatist's Progress. Associate Professor, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio. "Lavatch and Service in All's Well That Ends Well," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 28.2 (1988): 241-58. "Hamlet, Malcolm X, and the Examined Education," CEA Critic, 57.1 (1994): 111-22. "Hurston's Shakespeare: "Something Like a King, Only Bigger and Better," CLA Journal, 40.2 (1996): 197-213.

1990:

Olga Valbuena
From Transgression to Transcendence: Cross-Cultural Representations of the Feminine.  Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  "The 'Charming Distinction': Ur-teil as the Engendering of Reason in Kant's Thought," Genders 4 (1989): 87-102. "Milton's 'Divorsive' Interpretation and the Gendered Reader," Milton Studies 27 (1992): 115-37. "Sorceresses, Love Magic, and the Inquisition of Linguistic Sorcery in La Celestina," PMLA 109.2 (March 1994): 207-24. "To 'Venture in the Rebels' Fight': History and Equivocation in Macbeth," Renaissance Papers (Raleigh, N.C.: Duke UP, 1994).

Howard Marchitello
Authority and Authorship in Jonsonian Comedy. Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. "Desire and Domination in Volpone," Studies in English Literature, 31.2 (1991): 287-308. "Political Maps: The Production of Cartography and Chorography in Early Modern England," in Cultural Artifacts and The Production of Meaning: The Page, the Image, and the Body, eds. Margaret J.M. Ezell and Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe (Ann Arbor: The U of Michigan P, 1994): 13-40. "Disembodied Letters in The Merchant of Venice: Writing, Editing, History, ELH 62.2 (Summer, 1995): 237-65. Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England: Brown's Skull and Other Histories (Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 1997): 229pp.

Casey Charles
Desire and the Discourses of Love in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Assistant Professor, The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana. "Adversus Jerome: Liberation Theology in the Wife of Bath's 'Prologue'," Assays: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts 6 (1991): 155-72. "A Horse is a Horse: Love and Sex in Plato's Phaedrus," Literature and Psychology 38.3 (1992): 47-70.

Catherine Jean Creswell
Reading Subjectivity: The Body, the Text, the Author in John Donne. Instructor, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. "Poe's Philosophy of Aesthetics and Ratiocination: Compositions of Death in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'," in The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literary Theory, eds. Ronald G. Walker, June M. Frazer, and David R. Anderson (Macomb: Western Illinois Press, 1990): 38-54. "Turning to See the Sound: Reading the Face of God in Donne's Holy Sonnets," in John Donne's Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John Shawcross, ed. Raymond Frontain and David Malpezzi (Conway, Ar.: UCA P, 1995): 181-201. "Giving a Face to an Author: Reading Donne's Portraits and the 1635 Edition," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 37.1 (1995): 1-15.

1994:

Michelle Burnham
Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861. Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861. (Hanover, N.H.: The UP of New England, 1997): 211pp.

Daniel Payne
In Sympathy With Nature: American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics, 1620-1920. Assistant Professor, Union College, Schenectady, New York. In Sympathy With Nature: American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics, 1620-1920 (Hanover, N.H.: The P of New England, 1996): 181pp.

Janet Sorensen
The Grammar of Empire, The Figure of the Nation: Language and Cultural Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.  Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.  "Lef, Eisenstein, and the Politics of Form," Film Criticism 19.2 (1994-95): 55-74.  "Writing Historically, Speaking Nostalgically: The Competing Languages of Nation in Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor," in Narratives of Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism, eds. Jean Pickering and Suzanne Kende (New York: New York UP, 1997): 30-51. Language, Culture, and the Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing, forthcoming, Cambridge UP.

1995

Tracey Sedinger
The Epistemology of the Cross-Dresser: Sexual Politics in Early Modern England. Assistant Professor, Northern Colorado State University, Greeley, Colorado. "'If sight and shape be true': The Epistemology of Crossdressing on the London Stage," Shakespeare Quarterly 48.1 (Spring 1997): 63-79. "Historicism and Renaissance Culture," forthcoming in Discontinuities in Contemporary Renaissance Criticism, ed. Viviana Comensole and Paul Stevens (Toronto: U of Toronto P). Keongjong Yoh The Rhetoric of the Public Sphere: The Construction of the Cultural Authority of the Enlightenment Literary Intellectual. Assistant Professor, Sukmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea.

Eric Daffron
Feeling Double: The Trouble with Sympathy in British Literature and Culture, 1740- 1830.  Assistant Professor, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi.  "'Magnetical Sympathy': Strategies of Power and Resistance in Godwin's Caleb Williams," Criticism 37.2 (1995): 213-32.  "Male Bonding: Sympathy and Frankenstein," forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Contexts.

Lewis Daly
"Saith the Spirit, To This Shattered Earth:" Mid-Seventeenth Century Puritan Radicalism and the History of Religious Forms of Class Struggle.  Pastoral training, Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York.  "From Ends Irrespective of (the Limits of) Their Means," in A Poetics of Criticism, eds. Juliana Spahr, Mark Wallace, and Kristen Prevallet (Buffalo: Leave Press, 1994): 187-96.

Katherine Walke Gillespie
Table Talk: Seventeenth-Century English and American Women Writers and the Rhetoric of Radical Domesticity.  Assistant Professor, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.  "Anna Trapnel's Window on the Word: The Domestic Sphere of Public Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Nonconformity," Bunyan Studies 7 (1998): 49-72.  Article on Catherine Chidley forthcoming in Texas Studies in Literature and Language.

Mary Laura Severance
The Education of Desire in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel.  Editorial staff, U of California P.

Ian Stapley
Marriage as Exchange in British Literature, Chaucer to Defoe.  Instructor, Niagara Community College.  Marriage as Exchange in British Literature, Chaucer to Defoe, forthcoming from Peter Lang P.

Marsha Ginsberg
Reconceiving Melancholy: Gynecological Moles of Difference in Shakespeare' "Hamlet" and "Richard II."  Director of English, The Oak School, Eugene, Oregon.

Kang Kim
Contemporary Readings of Shakespeare: The Turn to History.  Assistant Professor, Chonnam National University, Kwangju, Korea.

Geoffrey Wilson
Renaissance Machiavellism and the Subject of Psychoanalysis.  Brittain Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; Multi-media Developer, Access Technologies Group.  "Renaissance Machiavellism and the Subject of Psychoanalysis," Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought 8.4 (1995): 559-603.  "Jouissance and the Job Market," forthcoming in Profession 1998.

Alan Gilbert
Landlords and Lacklanders: The Radical Politics and Popular Economy of Thomas Spence and Robert Wedderburn.  "Exquisite Balances," Denver Quarterly 27.1 (1992): 22-42.  "Peter Gizzi's 'Periplum'," Denver Quarterly 28.4 (1994): 111-13.  "Eurydice's Music," Pequod: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Literary Criticism 37 (1994): 96-102.

Mauritz Royce Kallerud
The Genre of Conjectural History: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Shelley, and William Blake in the New World.  Assistant Professor, Truman State College, Kirksville, Missouri.  "Rousseau's Ambivalent Sublime," The Wittenberg Review 2.1 (1991): 35-51.

Catherine Gray
Voices of Resistance: Seventeenth-Century British Women Writers.  "'Feeding on the seed of the woman': Dorothy Leigh and the Rhetoric of Maternal Dissent," forthcoming in ELH.

Charlotte Pressler
Energeia: Presentational Rhetorics and Renaissance Poetics from Petrarch to Shakespeare.  "Passing from Play to Play: The Novella as a Mediator Between Italian and English Renaissance Drama, forthcoming in theory@Buffalo.

Lisa Wilson
Pen Names: Marketing Authorship in an "Age of Personality, 1780-1850.  "Monk Lewis and The Monk: Scandal and the (Round) Character of the Romantic Author," forthcoming in Criticism.  "Female Pseudonymity in the Romantic 'Age of Personality': The Career of Charlotte King/Rosa Matilda/Charlotte Dacre." forthcoming in European Review.

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