Full-Time Faculty

Jonathan Gil Harris
D.Phil., University of Sussex, Englan
M.A. [Hons], University of Auckland, New Zealand

Professor Harris specializes in the literature and culture of early modern England, particularly the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He is interested in early modern understandings of globalization and the foreign, and how these have helped shape our knowledge and experiences of bodies, disease, commerce, travel, religious difference, material culture, and temporality. He is also the associate editor of Shakespeare Quarterly.

Books:

Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998; paperback, 2006)

Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama, ed. with Natasha Korda (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002; paperback, 2006)

Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism and Disease in Shakespeare’s England (Philadelphia: U Penn P, 2004)

Untimely Matter: Reworking Material Culture in the Time of Shakespeare (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2008)

Thomas Dekker, The Shoemakers Holiday, 3 rd ed. (New York and London: Norton [New Mermaids], forthcoming 2008)

Other Publications:

“Shakespeare’s Hair: Staging the Object of Material Culture,” Shakespeare Quarterly 52 (2001)

“[ Po]X Marks the Spot: How to ‘Read’ ‘Early Modern’ ‘Syphilis’ in The Three Ladies of London ,” in Kevin Siena (ed.), Sins of the Flesh: Responses to Sexually Transmitted Disease in Renaissance Europe ( Toronto: Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2005)

“Cleopatran Affinities: Hélène Cixous, Margaret Cavendish, and the Writing of Dialogic Matter,” in Dympna Callaghan (ed,), The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies (New York and London: Palgrave, 2006)

“The Time of Shakespeare’s Jewry,” Shakespeare Studies 35 (2007)

“Untimely Mediations,” Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar 6 (2007),

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