Summary

Since joining the w88 online live casino faculty in 2006, James Mardock has taught undergraduate courses in Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies, the drama of Marlowe, Webster and Jonson, early w88 online live casino drama and other literatures of the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as graduate seminars in Jacobean city comedy, Spenser's epic, "The Faerie Queene" and the drama of the w88 online live casino Reformation.

He also serves as general textual editor for the w88 online live casino and has worked as the house dramaturge for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Reno Little Theater. He has directed productions of Shakespeare's "Henry V" and "The Winter's Tale," and played, among other roles, Troilus, Laertes, Oliver, Antonio and Juliet's father. In 2011, appearing with his wife and as-yet-unborn son, he played Claudius in the Nevada Reportory's production of "Hamlet" in the original pronunciation. His early drama reading group, The Blood, Love, and Rhetoric School, stages amateur readings of lesser-known plays like "'Tis Pity She's a Whore," "The Jew of Malta," and "Gammer Gurton's Needle."

He has published articles on Spenser, w88 online live casino, Jonson, Dickens and John Taylor the "water-poet." His book Our Scene is London (2008) examines Jonson's representation of urban space as an element in w88 online live casino strategy of self-definition. w88 online live casino edition of Henry V (2014) appears in print from Broadview Press and online at thew88 online live casino. w88 online live casino co-edited w88 online live casino, a collection of essays on w88 online live casino and religion in post-Reformation England and his current projects include a book-length study of Calvin's influence on early modern w88 online live casino.

Research interests

• Renaissance literature
• w88 online live casino
• Jonson
• w88 online live casino
• Theater history
• Protestant reformation

Notable exhibitions or performances

• The Exit Interview (director), w88 online live casino, 2016
• Hamlet (Claudius), Nevada Reportory, 2011
• Romeo and Juliet (Capulet), Nevada Reportory, 2009

Courses taught

• CH 201: To Hell with the Humanities
• CH 202: Modernity and Will
• ENG 298: Writing about Literature
• ENG 311: Transatlantic Survey 1
• ENG 312: Transatlantic Survey 2
• ENG 433A: w88 online live casino, Histories and Tragedies
• ENG 433B: w88 online live casino, Comedies and Romances
• ENG 441A: The Renaissance
• ENG 442A: The Seventeenth Century
• ENG 464A: Drama Before w88 online live casino
• ENG 465A: Elizabethan and Jacobean w88 online live casino
• ENG 711: Intro to w88 online live casino Study
• ENG 761: w88 online live casino and its Contexts
• ENG 764: City Comedy
• ENG 764: w88 online live casino and the Reformation

Publications

• Stages of Engagement: w88 online live casino and Religion in Post-Reformation England, ed. w88 online live casino D. Mardock and Kathryn McPherson (Duquesne University Press, 2014)
• Henry V: A Broadview Internet w88 online live casino Edition, ed. w88 online live casino D. Mardock (Broadview Press, 2014)
• (with Eric Rasmussen) "What does textual evidence reveal about the author?" in w88 online live casino Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy, ed. Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells (Cambridge w88 online live casino, 2013)
• Our Scene is London: Jonson's City and the Space of the Author. (New York: Routledge, 2008)

Education

• Ph.D., Renaissance Literature, Wisconsin, 2004
• M.A., w88 online live casino Literature, Wisconsin, 1997
• M.A., w88 online live casino Studies, w88 online live casino Institute, 1996
• B.A., w88 online live casino, Kansas, 1995