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matthew c. hansen
Degrees PhD., M. Phil., |
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Research Interests Early Modern Literature (especially drama) and culture. Current projects include Ritual Speech Acts and the Shakespearean Stage, a study of the language of ritual performances in early modern English drama and culture, and Memory, Materiality & Revenge in English Renaissance Tragedy, a study of the role and representation of memory in Renaissance Revenge Tragedy. |
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Recent Publications Chapter 6, Shakespeare (General Criticism) for The Year’s Work in English Studies Vol. 85. (work published in 2004). Oxford University Press for the English Association, 2006: pp.360-380. Book Review: Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language by Arielle Saiber (Ashgate, 2005). Early Modern Literary Studies. 12.2 (September, 2006). http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html Book Review: |
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Courses Frequently Taught English 275, Introduction to Literary Studies English 345, Shakespeare: Tragedies and Histories English 346, Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances English 348, British Renaissance Poetry and Prose English 349, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama English 500, Seminar in Literary Studies English 588, Survey of Critical Theory English 530, Studies in a literary period (Renaissance) – last offered Fall 2006 English 510 Major Author (Shakespeare)—to be offered Fall 2008 |
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Teaching Philosophy I view my role as an instructor in English as a Socratic collaborator who aids students in practicing, improving, and honing their reading and writing skills. Through a dynamic dialectic, I challenge my students to see those skills as an important subset of critical thinking and in particular the processes of understanding, evaluation, and expressing complex ideas. I ask my students to discuss, to write to prepare for discussion, and to keep the kind of focus in discussion that papers require. The work I ask of my students requires flexibility and rationality, traits that I model in my teaching practice. |
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