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Alexandra W. Halasz

Halasz

Associate Professor of English

Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University

211 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755

Alexandra.W.Halasz@Dartmouth.EDU

My fields of specialization are early modern literature and the history of print. I teach core courses in sixteenth-century English literature, English drama to 1642, and Shakespeare. I teach special topics courses in the history of print and media, on Renaissance discourses, and on popular culture (contemporary and early modern).

Courses

English 16: Old and New Media
English 23: The English Renaissance
English 26: English Drama to 1642

Selected Publications

  • "Pamphlet Surplus: John Taylor and Subscription Publication," in Print, Manuscript, and Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England, ed. Arthur Marotti and Michael Bristol. Ohio State University Press, 2000.
  • The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • "Thomas Deloney," Dictionary of Literary Biography: Sixteenth-century Nondramatic Writers. Third Series, ed. David Richardson (Gale Research, 1996).
  • "'So beloved that men use his picture for their signs': Richard Tarlton and the Uses of Sixteenth-Century Celebrity." Shakespeare Studies 23 (1995): 19-38.
  • "Wyatt's David." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 30 (1988): 320-344. Reprinted in Rethinking the Henrician Era. Ed. Peter Herman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Last Updated: 1/27/05