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Tanya Pollard
Professor of English, Brooklyn College
Degrees/Diplomas: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University
Campus Affiliation: Brooklyn College
Research Interests: Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; comparative drama; audience response; genre theory; history of medicine, the body, and emotions; classics and reception theory; feminism; cultural studies.
Theory Group Field Specialization: Feminist Theory and Women's Writings|Literary History, Criticism, and Theory
Chronological Period Specialization: Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
Phone: (212)-817-8351
Office Hours: By Appointment
Email: tpollard@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

Books:

  • Shakespearean Sensations: Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England. Co-editor, with Katharine Craik. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

  • Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

  • Shakespeare’s Theater: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

     

Articles/Chapters:

  • “What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?,” Renaissance Quarterly 65:4 (winter 2012), 1060-1093.
  • “Audience reception,” in The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare, ed. Arthur Kinney (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 452-467.

  • “Drugs, Remedies, Poisons, and the Theatre,”Middleton in Context, ed. Suzanne Gossett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 287-94.

  • “Tragedy and Revenge,” in The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Traged, eds. Emma Smith and Garrett Sullivan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 58-72.

  • “Enclosing the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin,” in A Companion to Tudor Literature and Culture, 1485-1603. Ed. Kent Cartwright. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010, 111-123.

  • “‘A Thing Like Death’: Poisons and Sleeping Potions in Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra,” reprinted (from Renaissance Drama, 2003) in Harold Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations, William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, New Edition. New York: Chelsea House, 2009, 29-54.

  • “Romancing the Greeks: Cymbeline’s Genres and Models,” in How To Do Things with Shakespeare. Ed. Laurie Maguire. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 34-53.

  • “Spelling the Body,” in Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World. Ed. Garrett Sullivan and Mary Floyd-Wilson. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007, 171-86.

  • “A Kind of Wild Medicine: Revenge as Remedy in Early Modern England,” in Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 50 (2005), 57-69. Invitational contribution to special journal issue on changing paradigms in literature and science.

  • “The Pleasures and perils of smoking in early modern England,” in Smoke: A Global History of Smoking. Eds. Sander Gilman and Zhou Xun. London: Reaktion Press, 2004, 38-45.

  • “‘No Faith in Physic’: Masquerades of Medicine Onstage and Off,” in Disease, Diagnosis and Cure on the Early Modern Stage: Praxis and Performance, Eds. Stephanie Moss and Kaara Peterson. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2004.

  • “‘A Thing Like Death’: Poisons and Sleeping Potions in Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra,” Renaissance Drama 32 (2003), 95-121.

  • “Les dangers de la beauté: Maquillage et théâtre au dix-septième siècle en Angleterre,” La Beauté et Ses Monstres. Eds. Line Cottegnies, Tony Gheeraert et Gisèle Venet. Paris: Presses de la Nouvelle Sorbonne, 2002, 231-241.

  • “Beauty’s Poisonous Properties,” Shakespeare Studies 27 (1999), 187-210.
     

Works in progress

  • Reading the Greeks, Writing the Stage: Classical Genres and Popular Theater in Early Modern England. Study of the emergence of popular dramatic genres in early modern England in relation to the reception of Aristotle and the imitation of classical genres, with an emphasis on the inherited social and emotional functions of Greek dramatic genres, and the cultural role of the popular theater.