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Stephen Spiess
- Assistant Professor
Academic Division: Arts & Humanities
Bio
Academic Degrees
- Ph D, University of Michigan
- Graduate Certificate (Women's Studies), University of Michigan
- MA, University of Michigan
- MA, Dartmouth College
- BA, Brown University
Academic Interest / Expertise
Early Modern English Language, Literature, & Culture; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, including Shakespeare; Cultural Materialism; Feminist Literary Criticism & Theory; History of Sexuality (including Queer Theory); English Lexical Culture (Philology, Lexicography, Keywords).Awards & Honors
Courses
Degree Courses 2023
- LTA 2082 THE SEXUAL RENAISSANCE
Degree Courses 2022
- LVA 2082 THE SEXUAL RENAISSANCE
Publications
Journal Articles
- Spiess, S. (2014). The Measure of Sexual Memory. Vol: 67, Page: 310-326. Cambridge University Press. link
Book Chapters
- Spiess, S. (2019). "Baffling Comedy, Baffling Ourselves": Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare’s World: A Conversation. Page: 39-41. Medieval Institute Publications.
- Spiess, S. (2019). "The Epistemology of Violence in The Comedie of Errors": Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare’s World: A Conversation. Page: 143-152. Medieval Institute Publications.
- Spiess, S. (2019). “Towards an Epistemology of the Stage?": Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare's World: A Conversation. Page: 92-95. Medieval Institute Publications.
- Spiess, S. (2016). "Puzzling Embodiment: Proclamation, La Pucelle, and The first Part of Henry VI," in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race. Page: 93-111. Oxford University Press. link
Book Reviews
- Spiess, S. (2017). Review of Jeffrey Masten, Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare’s Time . Vol: 68, Issue: 287, Page: 992-4. The Review of English Studies. link
- Spiess, S. (2016). Review of Duncan Salkeld, Shakespeare Among the Courtesans: Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650 (Ashgate, 2012) and Kay Stanton, Shakespeare’s ‘Whores’: Erotics, Politics, and Poetics (Palgrave, 2014). Vol: 69, Issue: 3, Page: 1199-1202. Renaissance Quarterly.
Presentations
Professional Memberships
- Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (2017 - Present)
- Modern Language Association (2013 - Present)
- Renaissance Society of America (2012 - Present)
- Shakespeare Association of America (2008 - Present)