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Pollard
TanyaPollard
Tanya
Professor, English
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center
City University of New York
biographie
Tanya Pollard has a B.A. in English Literature from Yale University ; an M.A. in Classics and English from Magdalen College, Oxford University ; and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She has taught at Macalester College (Assistant Professor, 1999-2003) and Montclair State University (Assistant Professor, 2003-2007), and is currently Professor of English at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, of the City University of New York, where she has taught since 2007. Her research focuses on early modern English theater, with special attention to literary intersections with history of emotion and the body. She has written on early modern English antitheatrical writers, early modern medicine and theater, and early modern theories about audience responses to plays. She is currently writing about sixteenth-century responses to Greek plays, and their consequences for the development of early modern commercial theater.
publications
- Shakespearean Sensations. Co-edited with Katharine Craik (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
- Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2005).
- Shakespeare’s Theater: A Sourcebook (Blackwell Publishing, 2003).
- “Greek Playbooks and Dramatic Forms in Early Modern England,” in Forms of Early Modern Writing, ed. Allison Deutermann and Andras Kisery. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013), 99-123.
- "What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?,” Renaissance Quarterly 65:4 (2012), 1060-1093.
- “Audience reception,” in The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare, ed. Arthur Kinney (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 452-467.
- “Drugs, Poisons, Remedies, and the Theatre,” in Middleton in Context, ed. Suzanne Gossett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2011), 287-94.
- “Tragedy and Revenge,” in The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy, eds. Emma Smith and Garrett Sullivan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 58-72.
- “Romancing the Greeks: Cymbeline’s Genres and Models,” in How To Do Things with Shakespeare, ed. Laurie Maguire (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), 34-53.