Dr. Viviana Comensoli

Professor, English

Contact Information

Email: vcomensoli@wlu.ca
Phone: 519-884-0710 ext.3898
Fax: 519.884.8307
Office Location: Office: 3 -112 Woods
Office Hours: Thursday 2:00 - 3:00 pm or by appointment

Academic Background

• Professor (1986)
• PhD (British Columbia)
• MA (Simon Fraser)
• BA (Simon Fraser)

Biography

• Renaissance drama and prose
• Shakespeare
• gender and genre studies
• cultural materialist theory and criticism

• Editor, Thomas Dekker: Lantern and Candlelight (1608). Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, 2007
• Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage>, co-edited with Anne Russell. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999
• Discontinuities: New Essays on Renaissance Literature and Criticism, co-edited with Paul Stevens. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998
• 'Household Business': Domestic Plays of Early Modern England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997

• "'A Kind of Music': The Representation of Cant in Early Modern Rogue Literature," Language and Otherness in Renaissance Culture: Selected and Expanded Papers from the 2006 International Conference on Early Modern Cartographies of Difference (Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris)
• "Subjectivity, Theory, and Early Modern Drama," Early Theatre 7.2 (2004)
• "Dekker's The Honest Whore, Part II, Drama Criticism 12 (Spring 2000)
• "Music, The Book of the Courtier, and Othello's Soldiership," in The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality (University of Delaware Press, 1998)
• "Merchants and Madcaps: Dekker's Honest Whore Plays and the Commedia dell'Arte," in Shakespeare's Italy: Functions of Italian Locations in Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press, 1997)

• "Murder at Home: Domestic Tragedy in the Renaissance," Modern Language Association of America Radio Program: What's the Word 157 (Spring 2004)