EDWARD GIESKES
Department of English,
office: 803/777-2242, fax: 803/777-9064
B.A.
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.
“‘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.
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.
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.
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.
NEH
Summer Stipend Nominee. Nominated by the
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,
Ault
Fellowship. Award for dissertation support.
Humanities Foundation,
Helen
G. Allen Scholarship. Scholarship to support
dissertation work in the humanities. Humanities Foundation,
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,
College Curriculum Committee,
Job Placement Committee, Department of English, 2001-3, 2004-.
Midlands Regional Representative,
Faculty Advisor, Mortarboard Honor Society, 2000-5.
Participant, Teacher Quality Project,
Recorder for English Department Faculty
Meetings.
English Department Graduate Representative.
Member of Freshman/Sophomore Curriculum
Program Review Committee.
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
Book Manuscript Reviewer, Ashgate Books, 2001-
Manuscript Reviewer, Farrowlyne Associates, 2001-.
Consultant to
Reviewer for electronic course packet on
Shakespearean tragedy for
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.
Shakespeare Association of
Malone Society
Marlowe Society of
Modern Language Association
Group In Early Modern Cultural Studies