Mentorship

PhD Dissertations Directed or Advised by Leonard Barkan (1976–present)

Name	Dissertation Title	PhD Institution	Year	Current Affiliation	PhD Field
Frank Whigham	Fayned Showes and Forgerie: Courtesy and Political Suasion in English Renaissance Literature	University of California, San Diego	1976	University of Texas Austin	English
Laura Rosenthal	Shakespearean Adaptation and the Genealogy of Authorship	Northwestern University	1990	University of Maryland	English
William West	Spaces for Experiment: Theaters and Encyclopedias in Early Modern England	University of Michigan	1996	Northwestern University	English
Adam McKeown	Enargeia and the English Literary Renaissance	New York University	2000	Tulane University	English
Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei	Mimesis of Love: Sir Philip Sidney’s “Arcadia”	New York University	2001	Shakespeare Association of America	English
Emily Gray Tedrowe	“A natural perspective, that is and is not”: The Rhetoric of Siblings in Shakespeare’s Comedies	New York University	2003	DePaul University	English
Joseph Ortiz	Music, Ovid and the Triumph of Sound in Shakespearean Drama	Princeton University	2003	University of Texas, El Paso	English
Jennifer Waldron	Eloquence of the Body: Aesthetics, Theology, and English Renaissance Theater	Princeton University	2004	University of Pittsburgh	English
Philip Lorenz	The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama	New York University	2004	Cornell University	English
David Landreth	Accounting for Talents: Representations of the Coin in Renaissance England	New York University	2005	University of California, Berkeley	English
Elizabeth Bearden	The Emblematics of the Self: Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Greek Romance	New York University	2006	University of Wisconsin	English
Gerard Passannante	The Lucretian Renaissance: Ancient Poetry and Humanism in an Age of Science	Princeton University	2007	University of Maryland	English
Cynthia Nazarian	Petrarch’s Wound: Love, Violence and the Writing of the Renaissance Nation	Princeton University	2008	Northwestern University	Comparative Literature
Jennifer Kate Barret	“So written to aftertimes”: Renaissance England’s Poetics of Futurity	Princeton University	2008	University of Texas, Austin	English
Daniel Moss	Renaissance Ovids: The Metamorphosis of Allusion in Late Elizabethan England	Princeton University	2008	Southern Methodist University	English
Andrew Hui	The Poetics of Ruins: Vestigia, Monuments, and Writing Rome in Renaissance Poetry	Princeton University	2009	Yale–NUS	Comparative Literature
Abigail Heald	Tears for Dido: A Renaissance Poetics of Feeling	Princeton University	2009	University of California, Santa Cruz	English
Alana Shilling	Forgetting to Remember: Allusion and Topos in Renaissance Romance	Princeton University	2010	Boston Review	Comparative Literature
Joseph Moshenska	‘Feeling pleasures’: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England	Princeton University	2010	Oxford University	English
Leah Whittington	Supplication and the Classical Tradition: Vergil, Petrarch, Shakespeare, Milton	Princeton University	2011	Harvard University	Comparative Literature
Giulio Pertile	Feeling Faint: Exposing Consciousness in the Renaissance	Princeton University	2014	University of St. Andrews	Comparative Literature
Andrew Lemons	Inmyddes: The place of Form in Middle English Poetry	Princeton University	2014	Clemson University	Comparative Literature
Matthew Harrison	Tear Him for His Bad Verses: Poetic Value and Literary History in Early Modern England	Princeton University	2015	West Texas A&M	English
Emily Vasiliauskas	Dead letters: The Afterlife before Religion	Princeton University	2015	Williams College	English
William Evans	The Fiction of Law in Shakespeare and Spenser	Princeton University	2015	Stanford Law School	English
Matthew Spellberg	Dreaming for Others in Culture and the Novel	Princeton University	2017	Harvard Society of Fellows	Comparative Literature
Zoe Gibbons	From Time to Time: Narratives of Temporality in Early Modern England, 1610-1670	Princeton University	2018	Jersey	English
Daniel Blank	Shakespeare and the Spectacle of University Drama	Princeton University	2018	Harvard Society of Fellows	English
Sarah Case	Increase of Issue: Poetry and Succession in Elizabethan England	Princeton University	2018	Harvard Expository Writing Program	English
Leon Grek	Staging the Cosmopolis: Comedy and Translation in Republican Rome and Early Modern London	Princeton University	In progress	NYU Gallatin School	Comparative Literature
Matthew Ritger	Objects of Correction: Literature and the Birth of Modern Punishment, 1516-1667	Princeton University	In progress		English
Isaac Harrison Louth	Voice Lessons: Practicing Music in Early Modern Literature	Princeton University	In progress		English
Mary Fagan	Intercession and Narratology in Early Modern England, 1516–1596	Princeton University	In progress		English