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Craig Dionne
Professor of Literature
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992
612N Pray-Harrold Ypsilanti, MI 48197
734.487.1494
craig.dionne@emich.edu
Biography:
I teach Shakespeare, English Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, and Writing about Literature for the undergraduate and graduate Literature programs. Research interests: reception of Shakespeare through the ages, Shakespeare in Popular Culture, theater in early modern urban culture, and history of the discipline. I also edit the department journal, JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory.
Courses:
Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature
Studies in Shakespeare
Writing about Literature
Reading Literature
Introduction to Shakespeare
Literary Criticism
 
Recent Publications:
“’Now For the Lord’s Sake’: Vagrancy, Downward Mobility, and Low Aeshetics.” Early Modern Culture: An Online Seminar. Issue 7, 2009. Special Issue: Vagrant Subjects.

“The Trick of Singularity: Twelfth Night, Stewards of the Post-Human, and the Problem of Aesthetics.” New Humanisms, Ed. Eileen Joy. Ohio State University Press, under consideration.

”Fashioning Outlaws: The Early Modern Rogue and Urban Culture." Rogues and Early Modern English Culture. Eds. Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz.

"Period-Making and the Renaissance." Disciplining English Eds. Craig Dionne and David Shumway. SUNY University Press. Albany: SUNY University Press. 2002.

“The Shatnerification of Shakespeare: Star Trek and the Commonplace Tradition.” In Shakespeare After Mass Culture: A Cultural Studies Reader. Ed. Richard Burt. New York: Palgrave, 2002

"Playing It Accordingly: Parolles and Shakespeare's Knee-crooking Knaves," Anthology of Critical Essays on Shakespear's All's Well That Ends Well." Ed. Gary Waller, Routledge Press, November 2005.

Books::
Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage, Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia, Ashgate Press, 2008.

Rogues and Early Modern Literary Culture. Eds. Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz. Ann Arbor: University Michigan Press, 2004.

Disciplining English. Eds. Craig Dionne and David Shumway. Albany: SUNY University Press. 2002.