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.
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