B.A., Yale; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard
Professor Bartels is author of Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to Othello (2008) and Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation,and Marlowe (1993), which won the Roma Gill Prize for Best Work on Christopher Marlowe, 1993-94. She has also edited Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe (1997). Her other publications include: "Shakespeare's 'Other' Worlds: the Critical Trek" (Literature Compass, 2008); "Too Many Blackamoors: Deportation, Discrimination, and Elizabeth I" (SEL, 2006); "Othello and Africa: Postcolonialism Reconsidered" (William and Mary Quarterly, 1997); "Strategies of Submission: Desdemona, the Duchess, and the Assertion of Desire" (SEL, 1995); and "Imperialist Beginnings: Richard Hakluyt and the Construction of Africa" (Criticism, 1992). She is at work now on a new book, Intertextual Shakespeare.
Professor Bartels's graduate and undergraduate courses have centered on early modern literature and culture, with a focus on Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean drama. She is especially interested in questions of race, cross-cultural relations, gender, genre, and performance.
From Rutgers University, Professor Bartels has received the Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence (1993) and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributors to Undergraduate Education (1993). Since 1995 she has been on the faculty of, and since 2001 she has been the Associate Director of, the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer graduate program affiliated with Middlebury College. |
Elizabethan and Jacobean Shakespeare
Shakespeare and the Production of History
Shakespeare Page and Stage
Seminars on Othello and Hamlet
Drama in the Age of Shakespeare
Renaissance Literature and Culture
Seventeenth-Century Literature
Principles of Literary Study |
Shakespeare Page and Stage
Renaissance Literature and the Fashioning of Cultures
Critical Approaches to Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Contexts
Imperialist Beginnings
Critical Reading
Writing Seminar |
