STEVEN SWARBRICK Curriculum Vitae

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1 STEVEN SWARBRICK Curriculum Vitae Department of English Brown University 70 Brown Street, Box 1852 Providence, RI Phone: (408) EDUCATION Ph.D. English Literature, Brown University, expected in December 2015 Dissertation: The Inhuman Renaissance: Naturalist Poetics and Forms of Life in Early Modern England Committee: Richard Rambuss (chair, English), Karen Newman (Comparative Literature), Elizabeth A. Wilson (Gender & Sexuality Studies at Emory) B.A. English and American Literature, San Francisco State University, cum laude, 2008 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Lecturer, Development of Western Civilization Program, Providence College, Fall 2015 Faculty Fellow, Department of English, Wheaton College, MA, RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Areas of specialization: Spenser; Shakespeare; Milton; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature; science and literature; transatlantic and colonial literatures; literary theory and criticism; histories of affect, embodiment, and disability; feminist and queer theory; the ethics and politics of post/humanism; ecocriticism and early modern natural history. PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost. Under second review at Critical Inquiry. 29 ms. pp. Tempestuous Life: Ralegh s Ocean in Ruins. Forthcoming in Criticism (2016). 31 ms. pp. The Life Aquatic: Liquid Poetics and the Discourse of Friendship in The Faerie Queene. Forthcoming in Spenser and the Human : A special issue of Spenser Studies 30 (2016). 25 ms. pp. Shakespeare s Blush, or the Animal in Othello. Forthcoming in Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 28.2 (2016). 30 ms. pp. Unworking Milton: Steps to a Georgics of the Mind. Forthcoming in postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 7.1 (2016). 27 ms. pp.

2 Swarbrick Curriculum Vitae 2 Chapters in Books Through the Eyes of a Fish: Deleuze s Natural History, or the Intolerable in Anthropocene Cinema. Forthcoming in Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene : A special issue of Deleuze Studies (2016). Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter s Tale. Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance. Eds. Lynsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Reviews Philosophy s Rarefied Air: On Knox Peden s Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze. Theory & Event 18.3 (2015). Raphael Lyne, Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition. The Shakespeare Newsletter (Fall/Winter 2014): Reading With the Grain: On Vin Nardizzi s Wooden Os: Shakespeare s Theatres and England s Trees. Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies (2014): Joanna Picciotto, Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England. Andrew Marvell Newsletter 5.2 (Winter 2013): WORK IN PROGRESS The Event of Disability: Being a Body in Shakespeare s Time. A study of early modern disability and philosophies of the event (Lucretius, Deleuze, Badiou). Significantly reworking normative accounts of the body and temporality, this study investigates empiricist claims as well as literary figurations of embodiment and the senses through analyses of Shakespeare, Donne, Marlowe, and Milton, while proposing the centrality of disability to contemporary theory s conception of the event as a time that is (à la Shakespeare s Hamlet) out of joint. (Preliminary research for second book length study.) Minor Metaphysicals: Essays on Baroque Style. (Preliminary research for third book length study.) INVITED LECTURES Larval Subjects: Insect Ontologies in Spenser and the Posthuman, The Modern Language Association Convention, Panel on Spenser and the Human, Sponsored by the Spenser Society, Austin, Texas, January 7-10, 2016

3 Swarbrick Curriculum Vitae 3 LECTURES AND PAPERS READ Tis unmanly grief : Shakespearean Melodrama and the Difference Affect Makes in Lars von Trier s Melancholia, Shakespeare Association of America Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 23-26, 2016 The Ticklish Subject of Cognition: Melancholy Minds, Transitional Objects, and Play in The Merchant of Venice, The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, Rice University, Houston, Texas, November 12-15, 2015 Mounting Sidney, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 22-25, 2015 The Nymph s Complaint: Izaak Walton and Lars von Trier, BABEL Working Group Meeting, University of Toronto, Canada, October 9-11, 2015 Is the Ocean a Grave?: Personification and Agency in the British Atlantic World, The Society of Early Americanists and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, Roundtable on Environment and Agency, Chicago, June 18-21, 2015 Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago : Race and Animal Encounters in Shakespeare s Othello, Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Seminar on Animal Encounters, Vancouver, BC, April 1-4, 2015 Spenser s Dark Ecology, or Trauma in the Age of Wood, Renaissance Society of America Conference, Panel on Allegory and Affect in Spenser, Sponsored by the International Spenser Society, Berlin, March 26-28, 2015 Liquid Poetics and the Discourse of Friendship in The Faerie Queene, Faculty Colloquium, Wheaton College, MA, November 19, 2014 Tempestuous Life: Ralegh s Ocean in Ruins, UBC Medieval Workshop: Medieval and Renaissance Oecologies Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 7-9, 2014 Elements, Atlanticisms, Ecologies: Biopolitics in Ralegh s Discoverie, The Early Modern Center Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 16-17, 2014 Against Seeing: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Colloquium, Brown University, April 10, 2013 Wood Wounds: Trauma and the Inhuman in Spenser, Tasso, and Freud, Violence in the Renaissance Conference, The Early Modern Colloquium, University of Michigan, February 15-16, 2013

4 Swarbrick Curriculum Vitae 4 Toward An Archeology of Noise: Sound and Unsound in Shakespeare and New Media, States of Suspension: Politics and Histories, Aesthetics and Affects Conference, University of Chicago, November 15-16, 2012 Steps to a Georgics of the Mind, Fellows Colloquium, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, November 13, 2012 Unworking Milton, Renaissance Borders Conference, Princeton University, April 13-14, 2012 My office is to noise : Acoustical Sovereignty and the Noise of History in 2 Henry IV, American Comparative Literature Association, Brown University, March 29-April 1, 2012 Taste this : Richard Crashaw in the Cybernetic Fold of the Baroque, The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, Kitchener, Ontario, September 22-25, 2011 Shame, Animality, and Artificial Experience: Blushing in Shakespeare s Othello, The Early Modern Colloquium, University of Michigan, February 18-19, 2011 Plant Poetics in Spenser, Tasso, and Freud, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 5-7, 2010 PANELS CHAIRED AND ORGANIZED Organizer and participant, A Feeling for the Organism panel, The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, After Biopolitics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, November 12-15, Speakers: S. Pearl Brilmyer (University of Oregon), Adam Frank (UBC), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Elizabeth A. Wilson (Emory). (Co-organizer with Ada Smailbegović) Organizer and participant, Sidney s Animals panel, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 22-25, (Co-organizer with Stephen Guy-Bray) Organizer and participant, Image-Music-Text panel, BABEL Working Group Meeting, University of Toronto, Canada, October 9-11, 2015 Chair and organizer, Disability Studies and the Body in Theory, Mellon Colloquium, Brown University, Speakers: Tobin Siebers (University of Michigan), Erin Manning (Concordia), Michael Snediker (University of Houston). Chair and organizer, Early Modern Arts and Science panel, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 5-7, 2010 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

5 Swarbrick Curriculum Vitae 5 English Department Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2015 Brown/Wheaton College Faculty Fellowship, Jean Starr Untermeyer Fellowship in Poetry and Poetics, Brown University, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for research into, Disability Studies and the Body in Theory, Brown University, Cogut Center for the Humanities Graduate Fellowship, Brown University, Folger Shakespeare Library Dissertation Grant, School of Criticism and Theory Grant, Cornell University, Summer 2011 NEH-sponsored Grant for attendance at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Summer 2011 Doctoral Fellowship, Brown University, Folger Shakespeare Library Grant, Spring 2010 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Providence College: Development of Western Civilization 101: Antiquity to Middle Ages, Fall 2015 Wheaton College, MA: Green Shakespeare, Fall 2014 Brown University: Writing the Expository Essay, Summer 2015 Disability Studies and the Body in Theory, Putting Yourself Into Words, Summer 2013, 2014 Green Shakespeare, Spring 2012 Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay, Fall 2011, Spring 2015 Teaching Assistant Emory University: Shakespeare: Page and Screen, Spring 2011 British Literature Before 1660, Fall 2010 EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Managing Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Assistant Editor, The Spenser Review, ADDITIONAL TRAINING Researching the Archive (Year-Long Dissertation Seminar), taught by Carole Levin and Alan Stewart, Folger Institute (Folger Shakespeare Library, ) Sexuality in a Global Frame: Queer Theory and Beyond, taught by Kathryn Bond Stockton, School of Criticism and Theory (Cornell University, 2011) Neuroscience Bootcamp, week-long seminar on cognitive and affective neuroscience, Center

6 Swarbrick Curriculum Vitae 6 for Neuroscience and Society (University of Pennsylvania, 2011) Mastering Research at the Folger course, taught by Jesse Lander, Folger Institute (Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010) MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association Renaissance Society of America Shakespeare Association of America International Spenser Society Sixteenth-Century Society Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts REFERENCES Richard Rambuss Professor of English Department of English Brown University richard_rambuss@brown.edu Karen Newman Owen Walker Professor of Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature and English Department of Comparative Literature and English Brown University karen_newman@brown.edu Elizabeth A. Wilson Professor of Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department of Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Emory University e.a.wilson@emory.edu James Kuzner Assistant Professor of English Department of English Brown University james_kuzner@brown.edu Claire Buck Professor of English Department of English Wheaton College, MA cbuck@wheatoncollege.edu