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Scott Maisano

Department:
English
Title:
Associate Professor
Location:
Wheatley Hall Floor 06
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Area of Expertise

Shakespeare; English Renaissance; literature and science in 16th & 17th centuries; theories and theatres of artificial life

Degrees

PhD, Indiana University

Professional Publications & Contributions
  • Entries for "Science Fiction," "Technology," "Time," and "Utopia" in The Shakespeare Encyclopedia, ed. Patricia Parker (ABC-CLIO). Forthcoming 2016.
  • “Rise of the Poet of the Apes.” Shakespeare Studies. eds. Susan Zimmerman and Elizabeth Harvey. Forthcoming 2013.
  • "Now." Chapter for 21st Century Approaches to Early Modern Theatricality, ed. Henry Turner. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2013.
  • Maisano, Scott. "The Thesean Obscene" (Lecture Stream) in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for iPad. Dir. Ellen MacKay. Luminary Digital Media. Forthcoming 2013. iPad Application.
  • "Whither Brutus?: Rethinking Julius Caesar in the New American Century." Shakespeare Yearbook, eds. Julia Reinhard Lupton and Matthew Biberman. 2011. 161-170.
  • "Descartes avec Milton: The Automata in the Garden." The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature, ed. Wendy Hyman. London: Ashgate Press, 2011: 21-44
  • "Reforming Metamorphoses: The Epic in Translation as a Major Work of the English Renaissance." Approaches to Teaching Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition, eds. Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox. New York: Modern Language Association, 2010: 142-150.
  • "Shakespearean Primatology: A Diptych." Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies. Spring/Summer 2010, 115-123.
  • "Infinite Gesture: Automata and Emotions in Shakespeare and Descartes." Genesis Redux: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life, ed. Jessica Riskin. University of Chicago Press, 2007: 63-84.
  • "Shakespeare's Last Act: The Starry Messenger and the Galilean Book in Cymbeline." Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science and Technology 12:3 2004 (2007), 401-434.
  • "Shakespeare's Dead Sea Scroll: On the Apocryphal Appearance of Pericles." Shakespeare Yearbook. Eds. Douglas Brooks and Ann Thompson. 2007: 167-193.
  • "Reading Underwater; or, Fantasies of Fluency from Shakespeare to Mièville and Emshwiller." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 45:1 (2004), 76-88.