Eileen Sperry
visiting assistant professor
BA, New York University
MA, Binghamton University
PhD, Stony Brook University
Office: Palamountain 334
Phone: 518-580-5150
Email: esperry@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Early modern English literature and culture
- Poetry and poetic theory
- Writing and composition studies
- Critical pedagogy
Courses Taught:
- GN 151: Literary Methods Colloquium
- EN 105: Last Words
- EN 105: The Cost of College
- EN 105H: Writing Skidmore
- EN 110: Doubt
- EN 110: Deformed
- EN 213: Poetry
- EN 344: Shakespeare鈥檚 Sonnets
Publications:
- This Body of Death 鈥� Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric. Forthcoming from Cornell University Press.
- 鈥溾�楶ower, time, means to meet鈥� 鈥� Plague, movement, and privilege in Romeo and Juliet.鈥� For Circuits of Disease and Caregiving in Shakespeare鈥檚 Changing World, ed. Rebecca Totaro and Darryl Chalk. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury-Arden.
- 鈥淚n their own voices.鈥� For Unsettling Poetry Pedagogy, ed. Lizzy LeRud and Caroline Gelmi. Forthcoming from SUNY Press.
- 鈥淎s thou art, I once was鈥擠eath and the Bodies in 2 Henry IV鈥� for , ed. William Engel and Grant Williams. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
- "鈥楽o let us sport us while we may鈥欌�擣irst-person plural and the lyric voice," The Cambridge Quarterly, Volume 48, Issue 3 (2019): 197鈥�212.
- "Decay, Intimacy, and the Lyric Metaphor in Donne," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Volume 59, Number 1 (2019): 45-66.
- "Lord Have Mercy On Us: Broadsides and London Plague Life," The Sixteenth Century Journal, Volume 49, Number 1 (2018): 97-118.
- "'Milk for gall'鈥擝reastfeeding and Female Political Power in Macbeth," Breastfeeding & Culture: Discourses and Representations, Demeter Press (2018).
- "Joss Whedon鈥檚 Much Ado About Nothing and the Voyeuristic Audience," Shakespeare Bulletin, Volume 35, Number 1 (2017): 15-35.
Blog Posts and Editorial work:
- . The Pulter Project, 4 October 2024.
- . The Pulter Project, 21 March 2024.
- . The Collation (Folger Shakespeare Library), 13 September 2022.
- . Nursing Clio, 21 April 2022.
- . Nursing Clio, 6 Aug 2020.
- . with Vicki Daniel. Nursing Clio, 12 May 2020.
- . Nursing Clio, 17 March 2020.