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MEREDITH SKURA

SkuraPh.D, Yale University
Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English
Office: Herring Hall 321
Phone: 713-348-2467
Email: skura@rice.edu

 


Curriculum Vitae


Professor Skura is the author of The Literary Use of the Psychoanalytic Process and Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing and has just finished a book about the beginnings of autobiography in England. She has published articles on Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers and on psychoanalysis. She has held Guggenheim, NEH, ACLS, and Folger Shakespeare Library Mellon fellowships and is past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She teaches courses in Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, the early modern period, and theoretical approaches to Renaissance literature.

Research Interests:
Sixteenth and seventeenth century drama
Life writing
Psychoanalysis


Courses Taught

Undergraduate
Shakespeare 
Early Modern Drama: Madness, Violence, Sex and Satan 1588-1630

Graduate
Shakespeare
The World of Twelfth Night
Traveling, Trafficking, and Turning Turk: Globalizing Shakespeare
Development of Personal Voice: Lyric and Life-Writing
Doing Things with Emotion
Spenser