Jonathan Crewe

Title: Willard Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Office: 216 Sanborn
Phone: 646-2325
Departmental Web Site: Jonathan Crewe

Medieval and Renaissance Courses Taught

• English 24: Shakespeare I
• English 26: English Drama to 1642
• English 27: The Seventeenth Century
• English 65: Literature before the mid-17th century
• English 70: Literature before the mid-17th century
• Comp Lit 23: Topics in Early Modern Literature

Areas of Research Interest

• Sixteenth century poetry and prose
• Early modern romance in literature and painting
• Shakespeare; criticism and theory

Important and/or Recent and/or Major Publications

• New Pelican editions, with introductions, of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Narrative Poems, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure (1999-2000); Troilus and Cressida, Henry VIII (2001), all now revised and incorporated into The Complete Pelican Shakespeare (2002).
• “Believing the Impossible: Aethiopika and Critical Romance,” under consideration by Modern Philology.
•  “Reclaiming Character?” Shakespeare Studies, xxxiv (2006): 35-41.
• "What Does Matter Want? Irigaray, Plotinus, and the Human Condition," Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of History, ed. Elizabeth Harvey and Theresa Krier (New York: Routledge, 2005): 38-52.
• "Can Polemic Be Ethical? A Response to Michel Foucault," Polemic: Critical Or Uncritical, Essays from the English Institute, ed. Jane Gallop (New York: Routledge, 2005): 135-52. 
• "2 Henry IV," New Approaches to Shakespeare's Works, ed. Richard Dutton and Jean Howard (Oxford: Blackwell's, 2003): 432-50.
• "Black Hamlet: Psychoanalysis on Trial in South Africa," Poetics Today 22 (Summer 2001): 413-33. [MLA prize for best special-issue journal of 2001].
• "Punctuating Shakespeare," Shakespeare Studies, 28 (2000): 23-41.