STEPHANIE ELSKY
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of English
Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 7195
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
718-490-3218 / [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English Literature, University of Pennsylvania, December 2010
Dissertation Committee: Margreta de Grazia (Chair), Ania Loomba, Zachary
Lesser, Melissa Sanchez
Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Pennsylvania,
Department of Women’s Studies, December 2008
M.A., English Literature, University of Pennsylvania, May 2005
B.A., Columbia University, major in the Department of English and Comparative
Literature (cum laude, with departmental honors), May 2002
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, English Department and Core Faculty,
Center for Law, Justice, and Society, August 2013-Present
Andrew W. Mellon/Robert J. Keiter Class of 1957 Visiting Assistant Professor and
Postdoctoral Fellow, Amherst College, Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social
Thought, July 2012 – July 2013
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Davis, English Department and Humanities
Center, August 2011 – June 2012
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities at Tufts University,
September 2010-August 2011
WORK IN PROGRESS
Book Manuscript
“Time Out of Mind: The Poetics of Custom and Common Law in Early Modern England”
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Ernst Kantorowicz, Shakespeare, and The Humanities’ Two Bodies,” Law, Culture, and the
Humanities, Forthcoming in 2015
“Lady Anne Clifford’s Common-Law Mind,” Studies in Philology 111.3, Summer 2014
“‘Wonne with Custome’: Conquest and Etymology in the Spenser-Harvey Letters and A View of
the Present State of Ireland,” Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual Vol.
XXVIII, 2013
“Common Law and the Commonplace in Thomas More’s Utopia” English Literary Renaissance
43.2, May 2013
Book Reviews
“Novelty – It Ain’t What It Used To Be,” Rev. of Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve (New York:
W.W. Norton & Co., 2011) Vivarium (May 2013)
http://cmems.stanford.edu/blog/novelty-%E2%80%93-it-aint-what-it-used-be-part-iiforum-swerve
Rev. of A.D. Cousins, Pleasure and Gender in the Writings of Thomas More: Pursuing the
Common Weal (Duquesne University Press, 2009) Renaissance Quarterly (Winter 2011)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Graduate School Fall Competition Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 2015
First Book Award, Humanities Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2014
Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow, The Henry E. Huntington Library, July 2012
Senior Class Best Course Award, Tufts University, Spring 2011
ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2009-2010
Pennfield Dissertation Travel and Archival Research Fellowship, University of
Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences, Summer 2008
Dean’s Teaching Award (Departmental Nominee), University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2005-2009
Steinberg Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2005
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PAPERS PRESENTED
Invited Presentations
“Futures Past: Custom, Rebellion, and Revolution in Hamlet,” English Department, University at
Buffalo-SUNY, New York, Fall 2015 (Date TBD)
“Poetry without Origins in Sidney’s Old Arcadia,” Early Modern Studies Collective, Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio, March 2014
“Custom, Periodization, and Poetic Performance in Philip Sidney’s Old Arcadia,” Five Colleges
Renaissance Seminar, The Renaissance Center at University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
April 2013
Panels Organized
“Rethinking Renaissance Origins: Rupture, Revision, Resurrection,” Special Session, Modern
Language Association (MLA), Chicago, January 2014
“Imagining Consent in Early Modern England and Ireland,” Renaissance Society of America
(RSA), Venice, April 2010
The Annual Phyllis Rackin Lecture in Feminism and Early Modern Studies, English Department,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 2008
Conference and Symposia Presentations
“Ratifiers and Props: Judging Laertes’ Rebellion,” Sponsored Session: Newberry Library,
Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Berlin, March 2015
“Error and Innovation,” Roundtable on “Error in the Renaissance,” Center for Early Modern
Studies, UW-Madison, November 2014
“Renaissance Fairs Then and Now,” International Student Services Summer Program, UWMadison, July 2014
“Poetry without Origins in Sidney’s Old Arcadia,” Sponsored Session: Yale University
Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Society of America (RSA), New York, NY, March
2014
“Revising the Unwritten: On Poetic and Legal Performance in Philip Sidney’s Old Arcadia,”
Special Session, Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago, January 2014
“Nowhere and Everywhere: Sentences in Thomas More’s Utopia and Isabella Whitney’s A Sweet
Nosgay,” Sponsored Session: Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance,
Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Washington, DC, March 2012
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“Commonplaces and Relics: Collecting and Curating in the Early Modern World” (co-panelist:
Katie Harris, Department of History), Early Modern Research Cluster, University of
California, Davis, March 2012
“‘A Quiet Companye of Wordes’: Languages of Custom and Colonialism in the SpenserHarvey Letters and A View of the Present State of Ireland,” International Medieval
Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2011
“Etymology as Destiny: Philology, Conquest, and the Future of Vernacular Poetry in
Sixteenth-Century England and Ireland,” The Sights and Sounds of Transnationalism:
Sensing the Nation-State, Tufts University, Medford, MA April 2011
“Forms of Law: The Politics of Custom in Early Modern English Literature,” Center for the
Humanities at Tufts University, Medford, MA December 2010
“Custom and Consent in Thomas More’s Utopia,” Renaissance Society of America (RSA),
Venice, April 2010
“Inscribing Custom: Legal Time and Literary Form in Anne Clifford’s Diaries,” The Barnard
Medieval and Renaissance Conference, New York, NY, December 2008
“Books and Bodies in the Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford,” Group for Early Modern Cultural
Studies (GEMCS), Philadelphia, PA, November 2008
“‘Soft captivity involves the mind’: Liberty and Imagination in Phillis Wheatley's Poems on
Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” Society of Early Americanists (SEA),
Alexandria, VA, March 2005
Seminar Participation
“Custom, Periodization, and Poetic Performance in Philip Sidney’s Old Arcadia,” Shakespeare
Association of America, Toronto, Canada, March 2013
Panel Chair
“Bodies Political, Bodies Carnal,” MadLit Graduate Conference, English Department, UWMadison, March 2014
“Feminist Historiographies,” Women’s Studies Program 35th Anniversary Conference,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 2009
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Renaissance Historicisms: Old, New, Un-, and Anti- (Graduate Seminar), Spring 2015
Shakespeare II: Shakespeare and the Arts of Possession (Advanced Undergraduate), Spring 2015
Back to the Future in Renaissance Literature (Seminar in the Major), Fall 2014
Woman’s Place: Gender, Space, and Power in Seventeenth-Century Literature (Advanced
Undergraduate), Fall 2014
Shakespeare II: Shakespeare and the Arts of Possession (2 sections) (Advanced Undergraduate),
Spring 2014
Woman’s Place: Gender, Space, and Power in Seventeenth-Century Literature (Advanced
Undergraduate), Fall 2013
Shakespeare I: Love, Friendship, and Other Political Problems, (Advanced Undergraduate), Fall
2013
Amherst College
Thinking Law with Shakespeare, Spring 2013
The Poetics of Possession in Renaissance England, Fall 2012
University of California, Davis
English Literatures to 1700, Spring 2012
Women’s Writing I (Pre-1800), Winter 2012
Tufts University
Woman’s Place: Gender, Space, and Power in Renaissance Literature, English Department,
Spring 2011
University of Pennsylvania
Writing about Literature: Necessary Objects, Critical Writing Program, Fall 2006 -Spring 2007
Undergraduate Theses Directed
Edwarda de Souza (Senior Honors Thesis), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2013-2014
Heather Richards (Senior Honors Thesis), Amherst College, 2012- 2013
Graduate Theses Committee Member
Xochitl Gilkeson, Picturing Narrative: The Uses of Visual Rhetoric in English Renaissance
Literature (Dissertation)
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Graduate Preliminary Exam Committees
Keith Gabler (August 2015), Angela Zito (August 2015)
PROFESSIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Executive Committee Member, International Spenser Society, 2014-2016
Article Referee for PMLA, English Literary Renaissance, and Law, Culture, and the Humanities
University of Wisconsin, Madison
English Department Representative, Faculty Senate, Spring 2015
Theater and Performance Advisory Committee Member, Department of English, 2014-2015
Chair’s Advisory Committee Member, Department of English, 2014- 2015
Co-Organizer, Renaissance Colloquium Speaker Series, Department of English, 2014- 2015
Co-Founder and Faculty Advisor, Paleography Workshop, Department of English, Fall 2014
Organizer, Shakespeare’s 450th Birthday Party, Department of English, April 2014
Judge, Undergraduate Writing Prizes (Chesler and Henning), Department of English, Spring
2014
Recording Secretary, English Department Committee, 2013-2014
Amherst College
Member, Amherst College-Folger Library Summit on Undergraduate Research, 2012- 2013
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Seminar on Undergraduate Research, 2012- 2013
University of California-Davis
Faculty Mentor, Early Modern Research Initiative Graduate Student Reading Group, 2011-2012
University of Pennsylvania
Co-Coordinator, Medieval-Renaissance Seminar, 2008-2009
Event Coordinator, Graduate English Association, 2006-2007
Co-Coordinator and Founding Member, Gender and Sexuality, Reading Group, 2005-2006
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Modern Language Association; Renaissance Society of America; Society for the Study of Early
Modern Women; International Spenser Society; Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and
the Humanities
LANGUAGES
French, Latin, Hebrew