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Laurie Ellinghausen

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
16G Cockefair Hall
816.235.6032
ellinghausenl@umkc.edu
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00-3:00 p.m., or by appointment

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Degrees:

  • Ph.D., University of California - Santa Barbara
  • MA, Ohio State University
  • BA, university honors, honors in major, and summa cum laude, University of Houston.

Areas of Specialization:

  • Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
  • Shakespeare
  • Class, Labor, and Social Hierarchy
  • Early Modern Women's Writing
  • Cultural Studies

Publications:

  • Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667 (Ashgate Press, 2008)

Selected Articles:

  • "'Shame and eternal shame': The Dynamics of Historical Trauma in Shakespeare's First Tetralogy," Exemplaria: A Journal f Theory in Midieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 20 (2008).
  • "Literary Property and the Single Woman in Isabella Whitney's 'A Sweet Nosgay'," Studies in English Literature, 100-1900 (Winter 2005), 1-22.
  • "Black Acts: Textual Labor and Commercial Deceit in Thomas Dekker's Lantern and Candlelight," Rogues and Early Modern Literary Culture, ed. Craig Dionne and Steven Mentz, Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2004, 294-311.
  • "The Individualist Project of John Taylor 'The Water Poet',"
    • Ben Jonson Journal, Vol. 9 (2003), 147-69.

    "University of Vice:  Drink, Gentility, and Masculinity" in Oxford, Cambridge, and London” in Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550-1660 (Eds. Amanda Bailey and Roze Hentschell), forthcoming from Palgrave in 2010. 

    Courses:

    English 317:   British Literature I
    English 323:  Shakespeare
    English 4/5513:  Renaissance Literature I
    English 414/5514:  Milton
    English 4/523:   Renaissance Literature II (recent offerings:  Postcolonial Shakespeare, English Renaissance Drama)
    English 4/5551:  Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories
    English 4/5561:  Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Romances
    English 550B:   Seminar in Renaissance Literature (recent offerings:  Gender and Renaissance Tragedy, Islam in Early Modern English Literature, Shakespearean Histories)

    My research treats the myriad ways in which social hierarchies are represented, interrogated, and even re-imagined in the literature of the English Renaissance, a highly volatile period that witnessed sweeping historical changes.  My book, Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667 (Ashgate Press, 2008) brings shifting discourses of class and occupation to bear on the emerging institution of professional authorship, as articulated by such figures as Ben Jonson, Thomas Nashe, the Puritan radical George Wither, the maidservant Isabella Whitney, and the ferryman John Taylor “The Water Poet.”  More recently, I have turned my interest in historical transformation and its effects on articulations of social identity toward questions of “renegade” religion and nationality, which I am investigating in a new book project tentatively titled Extravagant Strangers:  Renegades, Exiles, and Converts on the Early Modern Stage.  In addition to my scholarship, I currently am developing (in collaboration with Dr. Joan Dean) “The Shakespeare Institute,” a continuing education course that focuses on the teaching of Shakespeare in secondary and post-secondary schools.  For more about me, see http://www.umkc.edu/umatters/article.cfm?ID=3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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