| |
Erika T. Lin specializes in early modern literature and culture, with a focus on drama, theatre, and performance.
She also has interests in medieval drama, gender studies, folklore, and Asian American studies. She is currently
working on her first book, Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance, and has also begun
preliminary research for a new project on the performance dynamics of seasonal festivities and the early modern
stage. While completing her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, she served as editor of the Literary Calls
for Papers (CFP) mailing list and website. She was also previously Assistant Professor of English at the
University of Louisville.
Selected Publications
- "Popular Worship and Visual Paradigms in Love's Labor's Lost." Religion and Drama in
Early Modern England: The Performance of Religion on the Renaissance Stage. Ed. Jane Hwang Degenhardt
and Elizabeth Williamson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 89-113. [PDF]
- "'Lord of thy presence': Bodies, Performance, and Audience Interpretation in Shakespeare's King
John." Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama, 1558-1642. Ed. Jennifer A. Low and Nova
Myhill. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 113-33. [PDF]
- "Shakespeare and Chinese Performance at the Folger Shakespeare Library." Shakespeare Bulletin
28.1 (2010): 188-91. [PDF]
- "Popular Festivity and the Early Modern Stage: The Case of George a Greene." Theatre
Journal 61.2 (2009): 271-97. [PDF]
- "Tiny Ninja Shakespeare." Puppetry International 21 (2007): 18-20. [PDF]
- "Performance Practice and Theatrical Privilege: Rethinking Weimann's Concepts of Locus and Platea."
New Theatre Quarterly 22.3 (2006): 283-98. [PDF]
- Winner of the 2008 Martin Stevens Award for Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies from The
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
- "Mona on the Phone: The Performative Body and Racial Identity in Mona in the Promised Land."
MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States 28 (2003): 47-57. [PDF]
Courses Taught
- ENGL 335: Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies
- ENGL 336: Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances
- ENGL 414: Honors Seminar: Early Modern Performance and Popular Culture
- ENGL 449: Introduction to Early Modern Drama
- ENGL 473: Special Topics in Shakespeare: Performance, Games, and Ritual Play
- ENGL 630: Early Modern Literature
Last Updated: 1 July 2011
|
|