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• 2008

  PhD.

  English Literature

  Dissertation: Thomas Nashe\nDissertation Committee: Judith Haber (chair)

  Kevin Dunn

  John Fyler

  John Tobin

  Tufts University

• 2006

  B.A.

  English

  Syracuse University

  M.A.

  MEd.

  Secondary Education

• Research

  Higher Education

  Critical Pedagogy

  English Literature

  Early Modern Scholarship

  Literature

  Management

  University Teaching

  Teaching

  Tutoring

  Human Development

  Event Planning

  Teacher Training

  Curriculum Design

  Public Speaking

  Editing

  Curriculum Development

  Invited Review of _Railing

  Reviling

  and Invective in English Literary Culture

  1588-1617: The Anti-Poetics of Theater and Print_

  by Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast.

  Invited Review of _Railing

  Reviling

  and Invective in English Literary Culture

  1588-1617: The Anti-Poetics of Theater and Print_

  by Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast.

  Re-conceiving Britomart: Spenser's Shift in the Fashioning of Feminine Virtue between Books 3 and 5 of _The Faerie Queene_

  \"I moot speke as I kan\": The Squire's Optimistic Attempt to Circumvent Rhetorical \"Following\" in _The Canterbury Tales_

  Translating Transcendentalism: A Transcontinental Exploration of Emersonian Enthusiasm

  Preposterous Translation: Ass Lore and Myth in _A Midsummer Night's Dream_

  Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549–1640) presents an opportunity to understand how texts

  performances

  politics

  and historical topics intersected and informed cultural productions during this period. These analyses of conversational exchanges across genres permit readers to grasp how conversation functioned as both a compositional methodology and an interpretive hermeneutic in early modern England.\n\nThe essays gathered here adopt eclectic critical approaches from the perspectives of historicism

  gender studies

  print culture studies

  performance studies

  object-oriented ontologies

  and the digital humanities to collectively argue that “conversation” is not only a site of reproductive intercourse

  but one of metamorphic between-ness. As this book demonstrates

  conversation extends what is conventionally thought of as “source study” by treating multiple sources as active interlocutors. These essays discuss how writers of this period push the boundaries of conventional

  diachronic imitation by engaging with ancient and/or contemporary sources to lend a sense of immediacy to the subject at hand. Each contribution examines the varying degrees to which “conversation” carries within itself a sense of internal crisis

  a turning back and forth

  a form of sexual and textual intercourse that does not simply reproduce

  but metamorphoses with each interaction.

  Editor

  Contributor of Introduction and Chapter. *Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England*

  Review of Teaching Shakespeare and Marlowe: Learning versus the System

  by Liam Semler.

  Red Herrings and \"The Stench of Fish\": Subverting \"Praise\" in Thomas Nashe's _Lenten Stuffe

  \"At the Crossroads: Intersections of Classical and Contemporary Protest Literature in Pierce Penilesse\"

  Abstract: Thomas Nashe’s repeated imagery of crossroads in Pierce Penilesse

  His Supplication to the Devill perfectly evokes his intertextual and inter-lingual invention of a distinctly English form of protest literature. This essay teases out the implications generated by Nashe’s polyvocal speaker(s) and macaronic intertexts in order to demonstrate his protest of a crisis of English rhetoric and identity. Throughout Pierce

  Nashe translates Juvenal’s satirical stratagems

  Geoffrey Chaucer’s and Thomas Hoccleve’s vernacular supplications to the English Crown

  and both Ovid’s and Ovid-via-Marlowe’s versions of the Amores into Elizabethan topical contexts. In addition to multiplying speakers and sources

  Pierce combines the genres of satire

  complaint

  Boethian consolation

  prose fiction

  and autobiography in a tour de force of translatio studii et imperii

  or the “translation of learning and empire.” As such

  part of Nashe’s project is to level the linguistic playing field between English and Latin. Ultimately

  Nashe “Englishes” his web of conversational networks by conflating his classical

  late medieval

  and contemporary sources in order to both protest the Crown’s failure to remedy foreign and domestic corruption in sixteenth-century London and to offer his solution: a vernacular humanist poetics that is entirely English.

  \"At the Crossroads: Intersections of Classical and Contemporary Protest Literature in Pierce Penilesse\"

  \"At the Crossroads: Intersections of Classical and Contemporary Protest Literature in Pierce Penilesse.\" The 41st Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America. Toronto

  Ontario. March 28-April 3

  2013.\n\nSeminar organizer. \"Early Modern Conversational Exchanges.\" Northeast Modern Language Association 2013 Convention. Boston

  MA. March 21-24

  2013.\n\nInvited Presentation of: “Hermaphrodites

  Herrings

  and Hypocrisies: Intertextual Cacophony and the Rupture of Amity in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.” Shakespearean Studies Seminar

  Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. Cambridge

  MA. December 7

  2012.\n\n“’Cupid’s golden hook’: Nashe’s Conversation with Marlowe’s ‘Hero and Leander.’” The 40th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America. Boston

  MA. April 2012.\n\n“A Red Herring? Nashe’s Radical Revision of Hero and Leander in Lenten Stuffe.” Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium. Cambridge

  England. July 16-18

  2010.\n\n“Clap Up a Colloquium”: Discursive Collaborations in The Booke of Sir Thomas More.” The Renaissance Society of America. Venice

  Italy. April 8-10

  2010.\n\n“A Red Herring? Nashe’s Radical Revision of Hero and Leander in Lenten Stuffe.” Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference. Amherst

  MA. October 24

  2009.\n\n“Play of Hands: Problematic Authority in The Booke of Sir Thomas More.” Medieval and Early Modern Institute Conference: “Codices and Communities.” University of Alberta

  Edmonton. Canada. December 4-5

  2008.\n\n\"Chastity in Errour: Paradoxes of Sex

  Gender and Species in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.\" Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society. Vancouver

  B.C. April 3-5

  2008.\n \n“Teaching Difficult Texts: Embracing Multiple Learning Styles in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Center for the Improvement of Teaching

  Annual Conference on Teaching for Transformation. Boston

  MA. January 25

  2008.\n

  Abbott Bennett

  PhD

  Kristen

  Abbott Bennett

  PhD

  Stonehill College

  Tufts University

  Stonehill College

  Tufts University

  UMass Boston

  English Department

  Paradise Rock Club

  Framingham State University

  Easton

  MA

  Teaching Fellow

  early modern studies

  Stonehill College

  Framingham State University

  Graduate Lecturer

  Freshman Writing Seminar 1 & 2 (English Department)

  Tufts University

  Paradise Rock Club

  Managed restaurant

  rock club

  and 40+ staff members.

  Acting General Manager

  Greater Boston Area

  Boston

  MA

  Lecturer

  ENG 200

  \"Understanding Literature.\"\nLecturer

  ENG 381

  \"English Epic Poetry.\"

  Lecturer

  UMass Boston

  English Department

  Easton

  MA

  Part-time Faculty

  English Department

  Interdisciplinary Studies

  Stonehill College

  Greater Boston Area

  Assistant Professor

  Framingham State University

  Boston

  MA

  Lecturer. Graduate College of Education and Human Development

  UMass Boston

  Dissertation: \"Thomas Nashe and Early Modern Protest Literature.\" \nCommittee: Judith Haber (chair)

  Kevin Dunn

  John Fyler

  J. J. M. Tobin

  Tufts University

  The Marlowe Society of America

  Shakespeare Association of America

  Renaissance Society of America

  Modern Language Association

  Spanish

  French

  Faculty Initiatives in Technology Award

  With the help of this grant

  I developed a class

  \"Subversion and Scandal in Early Modern Literature

  \" in which students negotiated the gap between early modern material and digital archival studies. In the culminating unit

  my students and I produced a website: “Early Modern English Resource Guide: Bridging the Gap between Digital and Material Archival Research: A ‘How To’ Guide” (http://earlymoderneng304.wordpress.com). Our site has since been republished in full in The Shakespeare Standard

  and both Internet Shakespeare Editions and Map of Early Modern London are republishing selections on their websites.

  Stonehill College

  Dissertation Completion Fellowship

  Tufts University

  Outstanding Graduate Instructor

  Tufts University

  Outstanding Graduate Instructor

  Tufts University

  Pedagogical Partner

  The Map of Early Modern London

  University of Victoria

  BC