English

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English and American Language and Literature, Harvard University, 2002
B.A., English, Grinnell College, 1995

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INTERESTS: British Renaissance literature and culture (including rhetoric and philology; memory and mortality); Shakespeare; film studies.

Scott Newstok is an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities through the Yale University Library's Special Collections, on leave from his position as an assistant professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota; he will begin a position at Rhodes College in the fall of 2007. His book project, Quoting Death, examines how Renaissance epitaphs are rhetorically deployed when recited beyond the tombstone, in other genres such as elegies, dramas, histories, rhetorical treatises, and political speeches. This cultural history of textual recitation also characterizes another, more philological study, Twinomials: Explicating and Unfolding the “two heds” of English. Twinomials considers how bilingually-rooted word pairs (e.g. "love and cherish") recur across poetic, religious, and legal discourses in early modern English. More contemporaneously, he has published essays exploring the ways in which Shakespeare gets “translated” into American literature and culture, from Willa Cather's novels and T. S. Eliot's poetry to Orson Welles' films and Presidential politics. He recently completed a scholarly edition of Kenneth Burke's essays on Shakespeare.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

"Civics Lessens:  Un-condensing the Seminar" (Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies symposium)

“George W as Henry V,” co-authored with Harry Berger, Jr., Shakespeare Yearbook special issue on “Shakespeare after September 11” (forthcoming)

"Elizabeth I’s Death Rehearsal," Goddesses and Queens: Iconography of Elizabeth I (Manchester UP, forthcoming)

Review of Stanley Cavell's American Dream. Shakespeare Bulletin Winter 2006 (24.4).

"re:vs." Review of the play Quinnopolis vs. Hamlet. Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespearean Appropriation (2006)

Editor, Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare: A Scholarly Edition (Parlor Press, 2006)

Entries in Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Culture and Popular Culture (Greenwood Press 2006)

Editorial preface to Kenneth Burke essay, Shakespeare Quarterly Autumn 2006 (57.3)

"The Military Theatre: Drafting Shakespeare"

"The Poetics of Closure: Epitaphs Ending Renaissance Elegies ‘Here,’" "Literature of the Graveyard" special issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination Spring 2006 (39.1)

"Renewing Burke’s “Plea for the Shakespearean Drama,” Literature Compass (3.1)

"Touch of Shakespeare: Welles Unmoors Othello,” Shakespeare Bulletin Spring 2005 (23.1 )

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: English 125 Major British Poets.