Erika T. Lin

Assistant Professor of English
George Mason University

ADDRESS
Department of English
George Mason University
4400 University Dr., MSN 3E4
Fairfax, VA 22030

OFFICE: Robinson A 414
PHONE: (703) 993-2782
E-MAIL: elin1_at_gmu.edu 		 
  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