EDWARD GIESKES

 

Department of English, University of South Carolina                                          

Columbia, SC 29208, email:  gieskese@sc.edu

office:  803/777-2242, fax: 803/777-9064

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. Boston University—January 1999

M.A. Boston University—English Literature 1991

B.A. University of California, Berkeley—English and History 1990

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

University of South Carolina—Associate Professor of English 2005-

University of South Carolina—Assistant Professor of English 1999-2005

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Books:

Representing the Professions:  Administration, Law and Theatre in Early Modern England.  Newark, DE:  University of Delaware Press, 2006.

Writing Robert Greene: New Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional Writer.  Essay Collection co-edited with Kirk Melnikoff.  Forthcoming.  Ashgate, 2007.

Essays:

“Staging Professionalism in Greene’s James IV” in Writing Robert Greene: New Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional Writer.  Essay Collection co-edited with Kirk Melnikoff.  Forthcoming.  Ashgate Press, 2007.

“Honesty and Vulgar Praise: The Poet’s War and the Literary Field,” forthcoming in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 17 (2005).

“Shakespeare and Montaigne:  A Symposium by Jules Furthman.”  Editor.  Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 2002 (Detroit:  BCL Manly, 2003).

“‘From Wronger and Wronged Have I Fee’: Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Legal Culture.”  In Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture, New York & London: Oxford University Press (Clarendon), forthcoming 2007.

“‘He is but a Bastard to the time’: Status and Service in The Troublesome Raigne of John and Shakespeare’s King John," rpt. in Gale Yearbook of Shakespearean Criticism 1998. Detroit: Gale, 1999.

“‘He is but a Bastard to the time’: Status and Service in The Troublesome Raigne of John and Shakespeare’s King John," ELH 65.4(Winter 1998): 779-798.

“The Logic of Form In Adorno’s Aesthetic Thought: Towards a Critical Theory of Art,” Research and Society 4(1991): 1-26.

Reviews:

Review of Shakespeare and Theatrical Patronage in Early Modern England (Paul Whitfield White and Suzanne Westfall, eds.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2002).  Shakespeare Bulletin 21.4 (2003).
 
Review of Defending Literature in Early Modern England:  Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context (Robert Matz.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2000) EMLS 8.3 (January 2003).  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/08-3/gieskrev.htm

Review of Shakespeare After Theory (David Scott Kastan. New York: Routledge, 1999) EMLS 6.1 URL:  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/gieskrev.htm.

Review of Court Masques: Jacobean And Caroline Entertainments 1605-1640 (Ed. by David Lindley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), Seventeenth Century News 56:1-2(1998): 93-95.

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

“‘Chaucer, of all admired, story gives’”:  Chaucer, Shakespeare and Generic Innovation.”  Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA 2007.

“‘Not marching in fields of Trasimene’: Generic Change in the 1590s.”  Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men Conference, Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, 2006.

 “‘Mirrors more than one’:  Spenser, Shakespeare and Generic Change.”  Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.

“ ‘th’unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask’:  Tragicomedy, Romance and Troilus and Cressida.”  Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting.  Bermuda, 2005.

“Historicism, Material, and Narrative.”  Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2004.

“1603 and Jonson’s ‘dangerous age’.”  Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, 2003.

“‘A dangerous age’:  Jonson, Beaumont and the Structures of Theatre.”  Renaissance Stagings.  University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2003.

“History, Method, and ‘Material Shakespeare.’”  International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Valencia, Spain, 2001.

“‘The Art of Revels Hath a Settled Place in the City’:  The Revels Office, Civic Pageantry, and the Development of the Professional Theatre.”  Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, 2001.

“City Comedy and Social Anxiety.”  Middleton Symposium, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Atlanta, GA, 2001.

“Theatre, Field, Metanarrative, and Robert Greene’s James IV.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2000.

Michaelmas Term, Social Conflict and the Law.” Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy, 2000.

“Bakhtin and Early Modern Dramaturgy.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1999.

“Balancing Accounts.” Group In Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, RI, 1998.

“‘That will I see, lead and I’ll follow thee’: Staging Professionalism in Greene’s James IV.” Shakespeare Association ofAmerica Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, 1998.

“‘That will I see, lead and I’ll follow thee’: Staging Clowns and Multiple Genres in Robert Greene’s James IV.” Theatre in Academe Conference, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, 1997.

“Balancing Accounts: Professional Economies in Early Modern Culture.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1997.

“City Comedy, Social Conflict, and the Place of the Law.” International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Los Angeles, CA, 1996.

“‘For he is but a Bastard to the time’: Status and Service in The Troublesome Raigne of John King of England and Shakespeare’s King John.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 1995.

“Honesty and Vulgar Praise: Poëtaster, Satiromastix and the Literary Market.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 1994.

“‘No End Is Limited to Damned Souls’: Doctor Faustus and the Dialectic of Enlightenment.” International Marlowe Society Conference, Cambridge, England, 1993.

“The Logic of Form in Adorno’s Aesthetic Thought: Towards a Critical Theory of Art.” Graduate Research in Marxism Conference, Buffalo, NY, 1991.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

Folger Institute.  Grant-in-aid to support attendance at “Plotting, Probability, and Evidence In Early Modern Drama” seminar.  Folger Institute, 2006.

 

Research and Productive Scholarship Grant.  Grant to support travel and research for book project.  University of South Carolina, 2004-5.

 

College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Grant.  Grant to support travel and research .  University of South Carolina, 2004.

 

Folger Institute.  Grant-in-aid to support attendance at the “Making Shakespeare(s)” seminar.  Folger Institute, 2004.

 

Departmental Research Grant.  Grant to help support summer work on book manuscript.  Department of English, 2003.

 

Research and Productive Scholarship Grant.  Grant to support travel and research for book project.  University of South Carolina, 2003-4.

 

Departmental Research Grant.  Grant to help support summer work on book manuscript.  Department of English, 2002.

 

Folger Institute.  Grant-in-aid to support attendance at the “Historicizing Shakespeare’s Language” seminar.  Folger Institute, 2002.

 

Research and Productive Scholarship Grant.  Grant to support travel and research for book project.  University of South Carolina, 2001-2.

 

NEH Summer Stipend Nominee. Nominated by the University of South Carolina, 1999.

 

College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Grant. Grant to support work on book manuscript. University of South Carolina, 1999-2000.

 

Folger Institute. Attended the "Shakespeare and Postmodernism" seminar. Grant-in-aid. Folger Institute, Spring 1998.

 

Gilman Prize. Award for best essay on Shakespeare or Elizabethan/Jacobean drama. English Department, Boston University, April 1997.

 

Ault Fellowship. Award for dissertation support. Humanities Foundation, Boston University, June 1996.

 

Helen G. Allen Scholarship. Scholarship to support dissertation work in the humanities. Humanities Foundation, Boston University, May 1996.

 

SERVICE

 

Job Placement Committee, Chair 2005-

 

English Department Teaching Committee, 2005-

 

Faculty Senate Library Committee, 2004-

 

English Department Undergraduate Committee, 2003-4

 

English Department Library Co-Representative, 2003-

 

Faculty Senate, University of South Carolina, 2002-5.

 

College Curriculum Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 2002-.

 

Job Placement Committee, Department of English, 2001-3, 2004-.

 

Midlands Regional Representative, South Carolina Conference of the American Association of University Professors, 2001-3.

 

Faculty Advisor, Mortarboard Honor Society, 2000-5.

 

Participant, Teacher Quality Project, USC College of Education and Dreher High School. University of South Carolina, 2000-.

 

Recorder for English Department Faculty Meetings. University of South Carolina, 1999-2001.

 

English Department Graduate Representative. Boston University, 1993.

 

Member of Freshman/Sophomore Curriculum Program Review Committee. Boston University, 1993.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

 

Led “Page and Stage:  Robert Greene and the Dramatic Field of the 1580s and 90s” at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, 2002.

 

Book Manuscript Reviewer, Ashgate Books, 2001-

 

Manuscript Reviewer, Farrowlyne Associates, 2001-.

 

Consultant to Carnegie Mellon University for Professional Development in Literary and Cultural Studies.

 

Reviewer for electronic course packet on Shakespearean tragedy for Bell and Howell Information and Learning (formerly UMI).

 

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

1994-1999: Member of Willing Suspension Productions:

 

Sound Director for Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist and Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, acted in The Spanish Tragedy, Light Operator for William Wordsworth’s The Borderers, Assistant Director and Assistant Lighting Designer for Robert Greene’s James IV, Light Operator for Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl, Dramaturg for John Marston’s The Malcontent, Co-Director for Francis Beaumont’s Knight of the Burning Pestle.

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

Shakespeare Association of America

Malone Society

Marlowe Society of America

Modern Language Association

Group In Early Modern Cultural Studies