Ed Gieskes: Department of English Language and Literature


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Edward Gieskes Associate Professor Office: 401 Humanities Office Building (803) 777-2242 gieskese@sc.edu Education Ph.D., Boston University, 1999 Specialization Areas Renaissance Recent Courses See Course Descriptions for detailed information. ENGL 712 Shakespeare’s Tragedies Current Research Project(s) Right now I'm working on a new project about genre and generic change in late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The project's second object is an examination of the ways that retrospective accounts of genre shape our critical imaginations of the period's cultural production. Publications Representing the Professions: Administration, Law, and Theater in Early Modern England Representing the Professions. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006. Representing the Professions: Administration, Law, and Theater in Early Modern England Representing the Professions unites literary criticism, social and legal history, and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture. It offers a detailed exploration of the professionalism of selected early modern disciplines in an effort to characterize those disciplines in their social, economic, and historical contexts. http://www2.lib.udel.edu/udpress/repres.htm Lauded Page and Learned Stage: Robert Greene as Pamphleteer and Professional Playwright. Essay Collection co-edited with Kirk Melnikoff. Under consideration for publication. "Honesty and Vulgar Praise: The Poet’s War and the Literary Field," forthcoming in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. 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). “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 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. "‘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. 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. "The Logic of Form In Adorno’s Aesthetic Thought: Towards a Critical Theory of Art," Research and Society 4(1991): 1-26. Presentations “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.