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:
- EN 105: Last Words
Publications:
- “As thou art, I once was—Death and the Bodies in 2 Henry IV†for , ed. William Engel and Grant Williams. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
- ҠNursing Clio, 21 April 2022.
- "," Nursing Clio, 6 Aug 2020.
- "," with Vicki Daniel. Nursing Clio, 12 May 2020.
- "," Nursing Clio, 17 March 2020.
- "‘So let us sport us while we may’—First-person plural and the lyric voice," The Cambridge Quarterly, Volume 48, Issue 3 (2019): 197–212.
- "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'—Breastfeeding and Female Political Power in Macbeth," Breastfeeding & Culture: Discourses and Representations, Demeter Press (2018).
- "Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing and the Voyeuristic Audience," Shakespeare Bulletin, Volume 35, Number 1 (2017): 15-35.
Editorial work:
- Editor, . Series editor for and .