Shawn Smith
I'm the Renaissance literature specialist at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. I teach classes on Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, and European literature from antiquity to Renaissance. My research focuses on Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and the history of rhetoric.
Education:
Yale University, Ph.D., 2001 (Renaissance Studies)
Purdue University, M.A., 1993 (Comparative Literature)
Boston University, B.A., 1990 (English)
Recent Publications:
Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity. Routledge, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003142645
"Samuel Beckett's Allusions to John Donne." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 65 (2023): 30-57. https://doi.org/10.7560/TSLL65102
"Pity and Piety in Titus Andronicus." Studies in Philology 119 (2022): 104-139. https://doi.org/10.1353/sip.2022.0004
"Love, Pity, and Deception in Othello." Papers on Language and Literature 44 (2008): 1-50.
Book Reviews:
Review of W. Reginald Rampone Jr. and Nicholas Utzig, eds., Much Ado About Nothing and the New Awareness. Sixteenth Century Journal 55 (2024): 1002-1004. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/732543
Review of Katherine French, Shakespeare and Happiness. Shakespeare Quarterly, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/sq/quac071
Education:
Yale University, Ph.D., 2001 (Renaissance Studies)
Purdue University, M.A., 1993 (Comparative Literature)
Boston University, B.A., 1990 (English)
Recent Publications:
Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity. Routledge, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003142645
"Samuel Beckett's Allusions to John Donne." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 65 (2023): 30-57. https://doi.org/10.7560/TSLL65102
"Pity and Piety in Titus Andronicus." Studies in Philology 119 (2022): 104-139. https://doi.org/10.1353/sip.2022.0004
"Love, Pity, and Deception in Othello." Papers on Language and Literature 44 (2008): 1-50.
Book Reviews:
Review of W. Reginald Rampone Jr. and Nicholas Utzig, eds., Much Ado About Nothing and the New Awareness. Sixteenth Century Journal 55 (2024): 1002-1004. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/732543
Review of Katherine French, Shakespeare and Happiness. Shakespeare Quarterly, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/sq/quac071