Elizabeth A Pentland
Associate Professor
Office: Atkinson Building, 742
Phone: (416)736-5166 Ext: 30865
Email: pent@yorku.ca
Secondary website: http://yorku.academia.edu/ElizabethPentland
Media Requests Welcome
Accepting New Graduate Students
Elizabeth Pentland specializes in Renaissance literature including Shakespeare. Her research focuses on transnational literary exchanges between England and France during the period of the French civil wars. Her current project, provisionally titled Inventing the 'French Cannibal', traces the emergence of this satirical figure in English print literature and drama during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and considers, in particular, its relation to discourses of social and religious reform. She is also an Associate Editor of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare (2021 - ), where she has published an entry on Mesnak, a French-language Indigenous film adaptation of Hamlet directed by the Québec-based playwright, actor, director, and filmmaker, Yves Sioui Durand. Other recent publications include "Agincourt and After -- The Adversary's Perspective," in King Henry V: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, 2018); "'I cannot speak your England': French women in King John and Henry V," for a special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (2017); and "Modern Retrospectives: Childhood and Education in Tom Stoppard's Shakespearean Plays," in Childhood, Education, and the Stage in Early Modern England, edited by Deanne Williams and Richard Preiss (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
She regularly teaches courses in Shakespeare, contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare (and/or global Shakespeare), Early Modern political theory, and the literature of travel, and she has been nominated for both the LA&PS Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the President's University-Wide Teaching Award.
Degrees
Ph.D., English Literature, Stanford UniversityM.A., English Literature, University of Toronto
B.A. (with High Distinction), English & History, University of Toronto
Professional Leadership
Interim Chair, Department of English (2019-20)
Undergraduate Program Director, Department of English (2016-2019)
Community Contributions
Faculty member for the Stratford Seminar Society, a community group that organizes a week-long summer program in association with the Stratford Festival.
Research Interests
“New Directions: Agincourt and After -- The Adversary’s Perspective,” in King Henry V: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides), edited by Line Cottegnies and Karen Britland (London, UK: Arden Shakespeare, 2018), 201-220.
"Modern Retrospectives: Childhood and Education in Tom Stoppard’s Shakespearean Plays," in Childhood, Education, and the Stage in Early Modern England, edited by Deanne Williams and Richard Preiss (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 324-353.
“Shakespeare, Navarre, and Continental History,” in Interlinguicity, Internationality and Shakespeare, edited by Michael Saenger (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014), 35-65.
“Martyrdom and Militancy in Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris,” in Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation England, edited by James Mardock and Kathryn McPherson, (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2014), 107-134.
“Teaching English Travel Writing from 1500 to the Present,” for Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters across Disciplines and Eras, edited by Karina Attar and Lynn Shutters (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
“Hamlet and the French Wars of Religion,” in Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association’s Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, ed Martin Procházka, Michael Dobson, Andreas Höfele, and Hanna Scolnicov (Lanham, MD: University of Delaware Press, 2014), 29-37.
“Hayward, John,” “Primrose, Diana,” and “Sandys, George,” In The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, ed. Alan Stewart and Garrett Sullivan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 461-3, 796-8, 852-4.
“Beyond the ‘Lyric’ in Illyricum: Some Early Modern Backgrounds to Twelfth Night,” in Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays, edited by James Schiffer (London and New York: Routledge, 2011). 149-166.
“‘Elizian’ Fields: Elizabeth, Essex, and the Politics of Dissent in 1624,” in Resurrecting Elizabeth I in the Seventeenth Century, ed. Elizabeth Hageman & Katherine Conway (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007), 149-167.
“Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture, ed. Alessandra Petrina and Laura Tosi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011),” Renaissance Quarterly 65.1 (Spring 2012): 274-276.
“Jane Pettegree, Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611: Metaphor and National Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)” for Early English Studies (EES), an online journal of the University of Texas at Arlington (http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/index.html).
“Robert Ellrodt, Montaigne et Shakespeare. L'émergence de la conscience moderne (Paris: José Corti, 2011),” Cahiers Elisabéthains 80 (Autumn 2011):103-104.
“Théâtre Elisabéthain (2 vols.), ed. Line Cottegnies, François Laroque & Jean-Marie Maguin,” Cahiers Elisabéthains 78 (Autumn 2010): 97-100.
“‘I cannot speak your England’: French women in King John and Henry V,” Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS), Special Issue 27: European Women in Early Modern Drama (2017), edited by Ema Vyroubalová and Edel Semple: 1-20. Web.
“Collaborations and conversations: The year in Shakespeare studies, 2012-2013,” The Shakespearean International Yearbook, vol. 16 (2016): 177-189.
“Philippe Mornay, Mary Sidney, and the Politics of Translation,” Early Modern Studies Journal (EMSJ) Vol 6: Women’s Writing / Women’s Work in Early Modernity (Fall 2014). Web.
Theatre Review: “Hamlet,” Shakespeare Bulletin 28.3 (Fall 2010). 377-382.
Theatre Review: “Hamlet,” Shakespeare Bulletin 27.3 (Fall 2009): 475-477.
“How to Read a (Digital) Shakespeare Play,” for panel on The Ethics of Progressive Shakespeare, Modern Languages Association (MLA), January 4, 2018, New York, NY.
“‘The Queen of England specially’: figuring English Protestantism in The Massacre at Paris” for Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) sponsored panel at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), March 2018, New Orleans, LA.
Panel Chair, Shakespeare’s Changing Language: Grammar, Rhetoric, Theology, for The Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (CSRS) / Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ryerson University, May 27, 2017, Toronto, ON.
“Digital Reading and the Early Modern Archive,” for the seminar on Material Texts and Digital Interfaces, Shakespeare Association of America, April 5-8, 2017, Atlanta, GA.
Panel Chair, The Meaning of “Non-Shakespearean,” for the Shakespearean Theatre Conference / Shakespeare 401: What’s Next? June 22-24, 2017, Stratford, ON.
Panel Chair, What’s Next for Hamlet? for the Shakespearean Theatre Conference / Shakespeare 401: What’s Next? June 22-24, 2017, Stratford, ON.
“‘Bastard Normans, Norman Bastards’: The Language of Politics in Shakespeare’s King John,” for the seminar on Shakespeare and the Dictionary, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), March 23-26, 2016, New Orleans, LA.
Panel Chair, Memory Theatre in England, for On the Peripheries of the Reformation: The View from Then and Now, an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC), October 21-22, 2016, Toronto, ON.
“Shakespeare and Excommunication: The Papal Context of King John,” for On the Peripheries of the Reformation: The View from Then and Now, an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC), October 21-22, 2016, Toronto, ON.
Panel Chair, Shakespeare and the Ends of Eating, Renaissance Society of America, March 26-28, 2015, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany.
“Queering the Frame: Chris Abraham’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” for the seminar on Shakespeare and/in Canada, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 2-4, 2015, Vancouver, BC.
Seminar co-chair (with Ema Vyroubalová, Trinity College Dublin and Alexa Huang, George Washington University), seminar on Global Shakespeare as Methodology, Shakespeare 450, Société Française Shakespeare, April 21-27, 2014, Paris, France.
“‘Hujjat’: Figuring the Global and the Local in Student Appropriations of Shakespeare,” for the seminar on Global Shakespeare as Methodology, Shakespeare 450, Société Française Shakespeare, April 21-27, 2014, Paris, France.
“Boy Actors and Childhood in Two Shakespearean Adaptations by Tom Stoppard,” for the seminar on Mythologies of Childhood, Shakespeare and Myth, European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), June 26-29, 2013, Montpellier, France.
"'Brave Conquerors': Rethinking the Politics of Love's Labour's Lost," for the seminar on Foreign Policy in the Age of Shakespeare, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), 5-7 April, 2012, Boston, MA.
“Shakespeare, Nebrija, and the War for Navarre,” Shakespeare: Sources and Directions, Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network (BSDN), 4-8 October, 2011, Cork, Ireland.
“Hamlet and the French Wars of Religion,” Seminar on Trauma and Memory in Early Modern England, Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, International Shakespeare Association, July 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
“‘Let Me Pray, Before I Die’: Martyrdom and Militancy in Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris,” Seminar on Drama and/of the Reformation, Shakespeare Association of America, April 2011, Bellevue, WA.
“From Bianca to Billo: The Courtesan Figure in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara,” for the seminar on Shakespeare and World Cinema, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 1-4, 2010, Chicago, IL.
Panel Chair, “Variations in Early Editions of Shakespeare: Causes, Consequences, and Significance,” Rethinking Early Modern Print Culture – CRRS Conference, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, October 22-24, 2010.
“Organizing Knowledge for Gentlewomen: The Lessons of François de Belleforest’s Histoires Tragiques,” for the seminar on Shakespeare and the Organization of Knowledge, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 9-11, 2009, Washington DC.
“Teaching Omkara Teaching Othello,” Bollywood’s Soft Power, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, 14-15 December, 2009, Kharagpur, India.
“A Milton for Young Atheists: His Dark Materials and the End of Authority,” Milton at 400: A Symposium in Honour of J. Martin Evans, Stanford University, 4-5 December, 2008, Stanford CA.
“From Bianca to Billo: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Bollywood Adaptation of Othello,” Shakespeare, Translation and Transmediation (Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network), University of Malta, 21-25 October, 2008, Malta.
“‘What’s in a Name?’: Love’s Labour’s Lost and the History of ‘Navarre,’” for the seminar on Histories and Methodologies, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), March 13-15, 2008, Dallas, TX.
“Belleforest’s Venice,” Shakespeare and Venice conference, Università ca’ Foscari Venezia, October 10-11, 2007, Venice, Italy.
“Reading Around in Belleforest,” for seminar on Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 4-7, 2007, San Diego, CA.
“‘The rarest Queene in Europe’: Praise of Elizabeth I and her Court in Bussy d’Ambois,” panel on Elizabeth I: the Competition for Representation Continues, Renaissance Society of America (RSA), March 22-24, 2007, Miami, FL. Panel officially sponsored by Renaissances: a Lecture and Workshop Series at Stanford.
“That ‘conveniently obscure location’: Rethinking Shakespeare’s Illyria,” Shakespeare and the Eastern Mediterranean, Inter University Centre, October 4-8, 2006, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
“‘There’s more in’t than fair visage’: the Cultural Politics of Remarriage in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII,” for seminar on Shakespeare and the French, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 13-15, 2006, Philadelphia, PA.
“Anjou and the Cannibals,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS), December 1-4, 2005, San Antonio, TX.
“English Mounsieurs: Performing ‘Frenchness’ in Shakespeare’s Comedies,” for seminar on Theater Across Nations, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), March 17-19, 2005, Bermuda.
“The Machiavel Plays the Maid’s Part: Richard III and Elizabethan Political Rhetoric,” for seminar on Shakespeare and Machiavelli, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 8-10, 2004, New Orleans, LA.
“Petrarch, Parody and Patronage: Florio Introduces Montaigne,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS), Oct. 23-26, 2003, Newport Beach, CA.
“‘Elizian’ Fields: Thomas Scott, Leonel Sharpe, and the ‘Haunting’ of James I,” for seminar on Recalling and Reconstructing Elizabeth I, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 10-13, 2003, Victoria, BC.
“Hamlet and the French Wars of Religion,” Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, edited by Martin Prochazka, Michael Dobson, Andreas Höfele, Hanna Scolnicov (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2014), 29-37.
“‘What Country, Friends, Is This?’: The Literary Setting of Twelfth Night,” for The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, May 22, 2018, Toronto, ON.
“‘And What Should I Do in Illyria?’: The Literary Setting of Twelfth Night,” for the Lifelong Learning Mississauga Spring 2017 Lecture Series: Shakespeare & Company. Burnamthorpe Community Centre, May 2, 2017, Mississauga, ON. Invited talk.
“Two Protestant Revengers,” Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC), Victoria College, University of Toronto, October 28, 2015, Toronto, ON.
“Exploring ‘That Little-Known Coast’: Shakespeare’s Illyria and the Archive,” Early Modern Studies Seminar (EMSS), University of Toronto, 9 February, 2009, Toronto, ON.
Participant, Cultural Interpretation Workshop, Critically Contemporary conference, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, September 29, 2018, Stratford, ON.
Scholarly Contributor, Playing for Free Workshop (The Tempest), Early Modern Conversions Project (Paul Yachnin, McGill University, in collaboration with The Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Ryerson School of Performance), Ryerson University, February 1-2, 2018, Toronto, ON. Invited.
Scholarly Contributor, The Changeling Workshop, Early Modern Conversions Project (Paul Yachnin, McGill University, in collaboration with The Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Ryerson School of Performance), Ryerson University, March 2, 2017, Toronto, ON.
Affinity Group Leader (Premodernity) and Seminar Participant (Gisèle Sapiro: How do literary works cross borders (or not)?), Harvard University Institute for World Literature (IWL), July 6-16, Lisbon, Portugal.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2023 | AP/EN2250 6.0 | A | Intro to British Lit | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2023 | AP/EN3535 6.0 | A | Shakespeare | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2023 | AP/EN3535 6.0 | A | Shakespeare | TUTR |
Elizabeth Pentland specializes in Renaissance literature including Shakespeare. Her research focuses on transnational literary exchanges between England and France during the period of the French civil wars. Her current project, provisionally titled Inventing the 'French Cannibal', traces the emergence of this satirical figure in English print literature and drama during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and considers, in particular, its relation to discourses of social and religious reform. She is also an Associate Editor of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare (2021 - ), where she has published an entry on Mesnak, a French-language Indigenous film adaptation of Hamlet directed by the Québec-based playwright, actor, director, and filmmaker, Yves Sioui Durand. Other recent publications include "Agincourt and After -- The Adversary's Perspective," in King Henry V: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, 2018); "'I cannot speak your England': French women in King John and Henry V," for a special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (2017); and "Modern Retrospectives: Childhood and Education in Tom Stoppard's Shakespearean Plays," in Childhood, Education, and the Stage in Early Modern England, edited by Deanne Williams and Richard Preiss (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
She regularly teaches courses in Shakespeare, contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare (and/or global Shakespeare), Early Modern political theory, and the literature of travel, and she has been nominated for both the LA&PS Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the President's University-Wide Teaching Award.
Degrees
Ph.D., English Literature, Stanford UniversityM.A., English Literature, University of Toronto
B.A. (with High Distinction), English & History, University of Toronto
Professional Leadership
Interim Chair, Department of English (2019-20)
Undergraduate Program Director, Department of English (2016-2019)
Community Contributions
Faculty member for the Stratford Seminar Society, a community group that organizes a week-long summer program in association with the Stratford Festival.
Research Interests
All Publications
“New Directions: Agincourt and After -- The Adversary’s Perspective,” in King Henry V: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides), edited by Line Cottegnies and Karen Britland (London, UK: Arden Shakespeare, 2018), 201-220.
"Modern Retrospectives: Childhood and Education in Tom Stoppard’s Shakespearean Plays," in Childhood, Education, and the Stage in Early Modern England, edited by Deanne Williams and Richard Preiss (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 324-353.
“Shakespeare, Navarre, and Continental History,” in Interlinguicity, Internationality and Shakespeare, edited by Michael Saenger (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014), 35-65.
“Martyrdom and Militancy in Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris,” in Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation England, edited by James Mardock and Kathryn McPherson, (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2014), 107-134.
“Teaching English Travel Writing from 1500 to the Present,” for Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters across Disciplines and Eras, edited by Karina Attar and Lynn Shutters (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
“Hamlet and the French Wars of Religion,” in Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association’s Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, ed Martin Procházka, Michael Dobson, Andreas Höfele, and Hanna Scolnicov (Lanham, MD: University of Delaware Press, 2014), 29-37.
“Hayward, John,” “Primrose, Diana,” and “Sandys, George,” In The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, ed. Alan Stewart and Garrett Sullivan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 461-3, 796-8, 852-4.
“Beyond the ‘Lyric’ in Illyricum: Some Early Modern Backgrounds to Twelfth Night,” in Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays, edited by James Schiffer (London and New York: Routledge, 2011). 149-166.
“‘Elizian’ Fields: Elizabeth, Essex, and the Politics of Dissent in 1624,” in Resurrecting Elizabeth I in the Seventeenth Century, ed. Elizabeth Hageman & Katherine Conway (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007), 149-167.
“Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture, ed. Alessandra Petrina and Laura Tosi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011),” Renaissance Quarterly 65.1 (Spring 2012): 274-276.
“Jane Pettegree, Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611: Metaphor and National Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)” for Early English Studies (EES), an online journal of the University of Texas at Arlington (http://www.uta.edu/english/ees/index.html).
“Robert Ellrodt, Montaigne et Shakespeare. L'émergence de la conscience moderne (Paris: José Corti, 2011),” Cahiers Elisabéthains 80 (Autumn 2011):103-104.
“Théâtre Elisabéthain (2 vols.), ed. Line Cottegnies, François Laroque & Jean-Marie Maguin,” Cahiers Elisabéthains 78 (Autumn 2010): 97-100.
“‘I cannot speak your England’: French women in King John and Henry V,” Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS), Special Issue 27: European Women in Early Modern Drama (2017), edited by Ema Vyroubalová and Edel Semple: 1-20. Web.
“Collaborations and conversations: The year in Shakespeare studies, 2012-2013,” The Shakespearean International Yearbook, vol. 16 (2016): 177-189.
“Philippe Mornay, Mary Sidney, and the Politics of Translation,” Early Modern Studies Journal (EMSJ) Vol 6: Women’s Writing / Women’s Work in Early Modernity (Fall 2014). Web.
Theatre Review: “Hamlet,” Shakespeare Bulletin 28.3 (Fall 2010). 377-382.
Theatre Review: “Hamlet,” Shakespeare Bulletin 27.3 (Fall 2009): 475-477.
“How to Read a (Digital) Shakespeare Play,” for panel on The Ethics of Progressive Shakespeare, Modern Languages Association (MLA), January 4, 2018, New York, NY.
“‘The Queen of England specially’: figuring English Protestantism in The Massacre at Paris” for Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) sponsored panel at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), March 2018, New Orleans, LA.
Panel Chair, Shakespeare’s Changing Language: Grammar, Rhetoric, Theology, for The Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (CSRS) / Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ryerson University, May 27, 2017, Toronto, ON.
“Digital Reading and the Early Modern Archive,” for the seminar on Material Texts and Digital Interfaces, Shakespeare Association of America, April 5-8, 2017, Atlanta, GA.
Panel Chair, The Meaning of “Non-Shakespearean,” for the Shakespearean Theatre Conference / Shakespeare 401: What’s Next? June 22-24, 2017, Stratford, ON.
Panel Chair, What’s Next for Hamlet? for the Shakespearean Theatre Conference / Shakespeare 401: What’s Next? June 22-24, 2017, Stratford, ON.
“‘Bastard Normans, Norman Bastards’: The Language of Politics in Shakespeare’s King John,” for the seminar on Shakespeare and the Dictionary, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), March 23-26, 2016, New Orleans, LA.
Panel Chair, Memory Theatre in England, for On the Peripheries of the Reformation: The View from Then and Now, an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC), October 21-22, 2016, Toronto, ON.
“Shakespeare and Excommunication: The Papal Context of King John,” for On the Peripheries of the Reformation: The View from Then and Now, an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC), October 21-22, 2016, Toronto, ON.
Panel Chair, Shakespeare and the Ends of Eating, Renaissance Society of America, March 26-28, 2015, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany.
“Queering the Frame: Chris Abraham’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” for the seminar on Shakespeare and/in Canada, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 2-4, 2015, Vancouver, BC.
Seminar co-chair (with Ema Vyroubalová, Trinity College Dublin and Alexa Huang, George Washington University), seminar on Global Shakespeare as Methodology, Shakespeare 450, Société Française Shakespeare, April 21-27, 2014, Paris, France.
“‘Hujjat’: Figuring the Global and the Local in Student Appropriations of Shakespeare,” for the seminar on Global Shakespeare as Methodology, Shakespeare 450, Société Française Shakespeare, April 21-27, 2014, Paris, France.
“Boy Actors and Childhood in Two Shakespearean Adaptations by Tom Stoppard,” for the seminar on Mythologies of Childhood, Shakespeare and Myth, European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), June 26-29, 2013, Montpellier, France.
"'Brave Conquerors': Rethinking the Politics of Love's Labour's Lost," for the seminar on Foreign Policy in the Age of Shakespeare, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), 5-7 April, 2012, Boston, MA.
“Shakespeare, Nebrija, and the War for Navarre,” Shakespeare: Sources and Directions, Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network (BSDN), 4-8 October, 2011, Cork, Ireland.
“Hamlet and the French Wars of Religion,” Seminar on Trauma and Memory in Early Modern England, Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, International Shakespeare Association, July 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
“‘Let Me Pray, Before I Die’: Martyrdom and Militancy in Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris,” Seminar on Drama and/of the Reformation, Shakespeare Association of America, April 2011, Bellevue, WA.
“From Bianca to Billo: The Courtesan Figure in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara,” for the seminar on Shakespeare and World Cinema, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 1-4, 2010, Chicago, IL.
Panel Chair, “Variations in Early Editions of Shakespeare: Causes, Consequences, and Significance,” Rethinking Early Modern Print Culture – CRRS Conference, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, October 22-24, 2010.
“Organizing Knowledge for Gentlewomen: The Lessons of François de Belleforest’s Histoires Tragiques,” for the seminar on Shakespeare and the Organization of Knowledge, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 9-11, 2009, Washington DC.
“Teaching Omkara Teaching Othello,” Bollywood’s Soft Power, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, 14-15 December, 2009, Kharagpur, India.
“A Milton for Young Atheists: His Dark Materials and the End of Authority,” Milton at 400: A Symposium in Honour of J. Martin Evans, Stanford University, 4-5 December, 2008, Stanford CA.
“From Bianca to Billo: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Bollywood Adaptation of Othello,” Shakespeare, Translation and Transmediation (Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network), University of Malta, 21-25 October, 2008, Malta.
“‘What’s in a Name?’: Love’s Labour’s Lost and the History of ‘Navarre,’” for the seminar on Histories and Methodologies, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), March 13-15, 2008, Dallas, TX.
“Belleforest’s Venice,” Shakespeare and Venice conference, Università ca’ Foscari Venezia, October 10-11, 2007, Venice, Italy.
“Reading Around in Belleforest,” for seminar on Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 4-7, 2007, San Diego, CA.
“‘The rarest Queene in Europe’: Praise of Elizabeth I and her Court in Bussy d’Ambois,” panel on Elizabeth I: the Competition for Representation Continues, Renaissance Society of America (RSA), March 22-24, 2007, Miami, FL. Panel officially sponsored by Renaissances: a Lecture and Workshop Series at Stanford.
“That ‘conveniently obscure location’: Rethinking Shakespeare’s Illyria,” Shakespeare and the Eastern Mediterranean, Inter University Centre, October 4-8, 2006, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
“‘There’s more in’t than fair visage’: the Cultural Politics of Remarriage in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII,” for seminar on Shakespeare and the French, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 13-15, 2006, Philadelphia, PA.
“Anjou and the Cannibals,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS), December 1-4, 2005, San Antonio, TX.
“English Mounsieurs: Performing ‘Frenchness’ in Shakespeare’s Comedies,” for seminar on Theater Across Nations, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), March 17-19, 2005, Bermuda.
“The Machiavel Plays the Maid’s Part: Richard III and Elizabethan Political Rhetoric,” for seminar on Shakespeare and Machiavelli, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 8-10, 2004, New Orleans, LA.
“Petrarch, Parody and Patronage: Florio Introduces Montaigne,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS), Oct. 23-26, 2003, Newport Beach, CA.
“‘Elizian’ Fields: Thomas Scott, Leonel Sharpe, and the ‘Haunting’ of James I,” for seminar on Recalling and Reconstructing Elizabeth I, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), April 10-13, 2003, Victoria, BC.
“Hamlet and the French Wars of Religion,” Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, edited by Martin Prochazka, Michael Dobson, Andreas Höfele, Hanna Scolnicov (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2014), 29-37.
“‘What Country, Friends, Is This?’: The Literary Setting of Twelfth Night,” for The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, May 22, 2018, Toronto, ON.
“‘And What Should I Do in Illyria?’: The Literary Setting of Twelfth Night,” for the Lifelong Learning Mississauga Spring 2017 Lecture Series: Shakespeare & Company. Burnamthorpe Community Centre, May 2, 2017, Mississauga, ON. Invited talk.
“Two Protestant Revengers,” Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC), Victoria College, University of Toronto, October 28, 2015, Toronto, ON.
“Exploring ‘That Little-Known Coast’: Shakespeare’s Illyria and the Archive,” Early Modern Studies Seminar (EMSS), University of Toronto, 9 February, 2009, Toronto, ON.
Participant, Cultural Interpretation Workshop, Critically Contemporary conference, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, September 29, 2018, Stratford, ON.
Scholarly Contributor, Playing for Free Workshop (The Tempest), Early Modern Conversions Project (Paul Yachnin, McGill University, in collaboration with The Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Ryerson School of Performance), Ryerson University, February 1-2, 2018, Toronto, ON. Invited.
Scholarly Contributor, The Changeling Workshop, Early Modern Conversions Project (Paul Yachnin, McGill University, in collaboration with The Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Ryerson School of Performance), Ryerson University, March 2, 2017, Toronto, ON.
Affinity Group Leader (Premodernity) and Seminar Participant (Gisèle Sapiro: How do literary works cross borders (or not)?), Harvard University Institute for World Literature (IWL), July 6-16, Lisbon, Portugal.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2023 | AP/EN2250 6.0 | A | Intro to British Lit | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2023 | AP/EN3535 6.0 | A | Shakespeare | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2023 | AP/EN3535 6.0 | A | Shakespeare | TUTR |
