Mary Floyd-Wilson
Education:
Ph. D. August 1996 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA 1989 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, English
BA 1986 University of Virginia, English
Professional Experience:
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, UNC-CH, 2006-2008; 2010Bread Loaf School of English (Asheville, NC), Summer 2007; Summer 2009
Associate Professor of English Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002-2004
Assistant Professor of English Literature, Yale University, 1996-2002
Selected Honors and Fellowships:
Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick (June, 2010); Warwick
nominator, Professor Trevor Burnard
Leadership Fellow (2009-2010), Academic Leadership Program, Institute of Arts and Humanities
Fellow at the National Humanities Center (2008-2009)
Long-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2008-2009), declined
Competitive University-wide W. N. Reynolds Leave, UNC-CH, awarded for Fall, 2009
Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006-present
Tanner Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2006
Faculty Fellow, Institute of Arts and Humanities, Fall 2004
Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004-2005
Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002-2003
Hilles Publication Fund, Yale University, 2001-2002
Junior Faculty Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, 2000-2001
Morse Fellowship, Yale University, 1999-2000
Short-Term Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Summer 1998
Publications:
Refereed Books and Chapters:
Tragic Action at a Distance: Arden of Faversham.” The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Tragedy,
co-editors, Emma Smith and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. (forthcoming).
Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England. Essay Collection. Co-editor with Garrett A.
Sullivan, Jr. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 213 pp.
“Introduction: Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World” to Environment and Embodiment. Coauthor with Garrett A. Sullivan. 1-13.
Reading the Early Modern Passions: A Cultural History of Emotion. Essay collection. Co-editor with
Gail Kern Paster and Katherine Rowe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). 384 pp.
“Introduction” to Reading the Early Modern Passions. Co-author with Gail Kern Paster and
Katherine Rowe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). 1-20.
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“English Mettle.” Chapter contribution to Reading the Early Modern Passions (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2004). 130-146.
English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama. Book. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003). 263 pp. (Paperback edition, 2006).
“’Delving to the root’: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English Race.” Chapter in British Identities and
English Renaissance Literature. Ed. David Baker and Willy Maley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2002): 101-115. Republished in Shakespearean Criticism (Gale Research Group).
"Transmigrations: Crossing Regional and Gender Boundaries in Antony and Cleopatra." Chapter in
Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage. Ed. Anne Russell and Viviana Comensoli. (Urbana
and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998): 73-96. Republished in Shakespearean Criticism (Gale
Research Group).
Refereed Journal Articles:
“Hamlet, the Pirate’s Son.” Early Modern Literary Studies; Special Issue 19 (2009) 12.1-11 <URL:
http://purl.oclc.org/emls/si-19/floyhaml.html>
“English Epicures and Scottish Witches.” Shakespeare Quarterly 57.2 (Summer 2006).
“Moors, Race, and the Study of English Renaissance Literature: A Brief Retrospective.” Literature
Compass Vol. 3 (June 2006) (an online journal published by Blackwell: http://www.literaturecompass.com/ ).
Renaissance Drama, special issue, Volume 35 (2006) “Embodiment and Environment in Early Modern
Drama and Performance.” Guest Co-editor with Garrett Sullivan.
"Temperature, Temperance, and Racial Difference in Ben Jonson's The Masque of Blackness." English
Literary Renaissance 28 (Spring 1998): 183-209.
"Ophelia and Femininity in the Eighteenth Century: 'Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.'"
Women's Studies 21 (1992): 391-409.
"Poetic Empathy: Theodore Roethke's Conception of Women in the Love Poems.” South Atlantic Review
56.1 (1991): 61-78. Reproduced in Contemporary Literary Criticism.
Unrefereed Works:
Introduction. Shakespeare’s Sonnets (New York: Barnes and Noble, 2003). 6 pp.
“Humors” and “Passions” entries for The Shakespeare Encyclopedia, 5 volumes. Gen. ed., Patricia
Parker. Forthcoming.
Book Reviews:
David Hillman’s Shakespeare’s Entrails: Belief, Scepticism and the Interior of the Body (2007),
Shakespeare Studies 37 (2009): 224-227.
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Lloyd Kermode’ Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama (2009) for Renaissance Quarterly,
forthcoming.
Katherine A. Craik’s Reading Sensations in Early Modern England (2007) Bulletin of the History of
Medicine. 82.4 (2008): 936-7
Elizabeth Spiller’s Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge UP, 2004) for The Spenser
Review (36:3) 2005, 3-5.
Virginia Mason Vaughan’s Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005) Shakespeare Yearbook, 14 (2005): 513-519.
Philip Schwyzer’s Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (Cambridge
UP, 2004), Shakespeare Studies 34 (2006): 247-251.
R. S. White’s Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996); Shakespeare Quarterly 49 (Winter 1998): 457-459.
Works in Progress:
Experimental Theater: Scientific Practice and Occult Mentalities on the Shakespearean Stage (book
manuscript)
Invited contribution to Forum on “Shakespeare and Ecology,” Shakespeare Studies, edited by Julian
Yates and Garrett Sullivan.
Oral Presentations (seminars, conferences, speaking engagements):
2010
Co-director of SAA seminar with David J. Baker, “Artisanal Knowledge and the Stage”
2009
“’Plagued in Art’: Techné, Experiment, and the Devil in The Duchess of Malfi “; Keynote lecture
at Renaissance Gothic Conference in Cologne, Germany (December, 2009) and invited lecture at
Northwestern University, Early Modern Colloquium (October, 2009)
“As secret as maidenhead”: Twelfth Night and the Nature of Attraction,” presented at “Staging the
Natural,” directed by Vin Nardizzi and Tony Dawson, Shakespeare Association of America,
Washington D. C., spring, 2009.
2008
“Observation” directed by Lorraine Daston; two day faculty seminar held at the Folger Institute,
May 2008.
“Airy Spirits and Secret Talks: The Preternatural Ecology of Arden of Faversham” Renaissance
Society of America, Chicago, April 2008.
"'A witchcraft drew me hither': Twelfth Night and the Nature of Attraction." Invited speaker, Utah
State University, March 2008.
2007
“Preternatural Passions in Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling,” presented at “Shakespeare
and the Supernatural,” directed by Jesse Lander, Shakespeare Association of America seminar;
San Diego, spring, 2007.
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Funded participant in Year-Long Colloquium, “Vernacular Health and Healing,” led by Professor
Mary E. Fissell at the Folger Institute, 2006-2007.
2006
“Winter Tales: Shakespeare and the North,” co-director with Daryl Palmer, Shakespeare
Association of America seminar; Philadelphia, spring, 2006.
Invited Keynote Lecturer for the Committee on Social Theory’s multidisciplinary lecture series
and graduate seminar on “Emotion”; University of Kentucky. Other keynote lecturers in this
series are William Miller, University of Michigan Law School; Jay Winter, Department of
History Yale University; Mark Jarzombek, College of Architecture, MIT.
2005
Invited participant in on-line discussion of “Shakespeare and Embodiment” with scholars Gail
Kern Paster, Julian Yates, and Katherine Rowe. Led by Matthew Greenfield, published on the
Literature Compass website.
“Hamlet, the Pirate’s Son,” paper presented in “Histories of Sources,” as seminar participant;
directed by Lori Humphrey Newcomb; Shakespeare Association of America; Bermuda, March
2005.
2004
“The ‘English epicures’ of Shakespeare's Macbeth.” Invited speaker, “Nature in the Middle Ages
and Renaissance,” Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ohio State University,
November 2004.
“Shakespeare and Ethnicity.” Invited keynote speaker, Shakespeare Festival, Texas A&M
University, March 2004.
“Ecologies of the Early Modern Body,” co-director with Garrett Sullivan, Shakespeare
Association of America seminar; New Orleans, spring 2004.
“Inhabiting the Body / Inhabiting the World,” International Conference; co-organizer with Garrett
Sullivan; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 19-20, 2004. URL:
http://english.unc.edu/conferences/bodyworld/
2002
“British Ethnicities: Henry V and Macbeth” and “Othello and the Emergence of Race,” Invited
speaker for these two sessions at the Summer Seminar, “Shakespeare’s World Views,” Program
in the Humanities and Human Values, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July 1820, 2002.
“Henry V’s Mettle,” “Land, Property, and Space in the Early Modern World,” Invited speaker by
Penn State Committee for Early Modern Studies. Also led workshop on Othello. Directed by
Dan Beaver and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.; March, 2002.
“Henry V’s Mettle” also delivered at “The Cultural History of Emotion: Shakespearean Affects in
the Longue Duree,” scheduled paper session at Shakespeare Association of America,
Minneapolis, Spring 2002
2001
“Rethinking Form and History,” Invited seminar participant, Philadelphia Area Working Group
for Early Modern Studies, session of GEMCS, University of Pennsylvania, November 17, 2001.
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“Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, 1500-1700,” Invited speaker at Symposium at the
University of Alabama, September 27-29, 2001. Directed by Gary L. Taylor and Philip Beidler.
“Hamlet’s Mirth,” paper presented in “Early Modern ‘Manuals’ and the Scripting of Behavior,”
as seminar participant; directed by Frank Whigham; Shakespeare Association of America; Miami,
April 2001.
2000
“Tamburlaine and the Staging of English Ethnicity”; paper delivered as Junior Faculty Fellow at
the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, October 2000
“Strong Limbs and Spongy Brains: The Ethnography of English Humoralism”; Invited speaker
for the Early Modern Colloquium at The University of Michigan; Carla J. Mazzio, director; Ann
Arbor, November, 2000.
Respondent for paper session held at the Modern Language Association; “’A Digression on Air’:
Environmental Theory in Early Modern English Literature”; Thomas Olsen, chair; Washington
D.C., December 2000
“The Sanguine Englishman”; paper delivered at the Modern Language Association; special
session on “Blood in the Early Modern Period”; Roland Greene, chair; Washington D.C.,
December 2000
“Marlowe Today,” Seminar participant; directed by David Riggs; Shakespeare Association of
America; Montreal, April 2000.
1999
“Reading the Early Modern Passions,” seminar participant; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Seminar on Issues in Interpretation; directed by Gail Kern Paster; The Folger Institute; October,
29-30, 1999; December 10-11, 1999; January 28-29, 2000; March 31-April 1, 2000.
“Shakespeare and the Ethnicity of Emotion,” paper delivered at the Modern Language
Association; session on “Shakespeare and Emotion” arranged by the Division on Shakespeare;
Thomas Cartelli presiding; Chicago, December 1999.
“The Inconstant Englishman and the Jealous Moor,” paper delivered at the Folger Institute,
“Reading the Early Modern Passions” session; October, 1999.
“Shakespeare and the Nature of Barbarism,” Seminar Leader, Shakespeare Association of
America, San Francisco, April 1999.
1997-1998
“Race, Historiography, and the Jacobean Campaign for Union,” paper delivered at The Sixth
Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies; Newport, Rhode Island,
November 1998.
“An Anatomy of Blackness: ‘To find out the seat of this atra bilis,’” paper delivered at Modern
Language Association, Toronto, December 1997; shorter version presented at The Fifth Annual
Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, December
1997.
"Temperature, Temperance, and Racial Difference in Ben Jonson's The Masque of Blackness,”
paper delivered at the Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium, Yale University, October 1997
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“Natural Bravery of the Isle: the Scots, the Britons, and the English in Cymbeline,” paper
delivered at Stiles College, Yale University, October 1997
"A Genealogy of English Complexion," paper delivered at the Renaissance Society of America;
Vancouver, April 1997
"The English and the Scots," seminar participant; directed by Rebecca Bushnell; Shakespeare
Association of America; Washington D. C., March 1997.
1993-1996
"Constructing Race: Differentiating Peoples in the Early Modern World, 1400-1700"; invited
seminar participant; Institute of Early American History and Culture; The College of William and
Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, April, 1996.
"'Under a Barbary Dye': Cross-Race Dressing and the Power of Unmasking," paper delivered at
Group for Early Modern Culture; Dallas, Texas, October 1995.
"Climate Matters: Rethinking Early Modern Racialism," paper delivered at Shakespeare
Association of America, Chicago, Illinois, March 1995; also presented at Group for Early Modern
Culture; University of Rochester, New York, November 1994.
"Humoring the Body: Social Practice and Behavioral Theory in Early Modern England," seminar
participant; Folger Institute; directed by Gail Kern Paster; Spring semester,1994
"'Their most faithful hue': Complexion and Constancy in The Masque of Blackness," paper
delivered at Third Annual Conference on Commonwealth and Post-Colonial Studies; Georgia
Southern University, Georgia, April 1994.
"'Selling their wares': Chastity in Jacobean City Comedies," paper delivered at Early Modern
Culture 1492-1848; The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, October 1993.
"Shakespeare and the Sexual Relation"; seminar participant; directed by Catherine Belsey;
Culture Studies Summer Seminar at West Virginia University, Summer 1993
Teaching Record:
Bread Loaf School of English (Asheville, NC, Summers 2007 and 2009)
Shakespeare and the Body
Magic and English Renaissance Literature
Gender and Disorder in Renaissance Drama
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2002-present ):
Staging Women’s History in Early Modern English Drama, Spring 2010
Directed Reading on Shakespeare and Race, Fall 2008
The Body and Literature: Co-Taught Graduate Pro-Seminar, Spring 2008
English Renaissance Drama (English 226): Spring 2007
Somatic Shakespeare, Graduate Seminar: Spring 2006
Shakespeare Lecture Course: Spring 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2007
Survey of English Literature from Chaucer to Pope: Spring 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006
Shakespeare Honors: Texts and Contexts (English 58H): Fall 2003
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Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose (English 54): Fall 2002, Fall 2003
Sixteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Graduate Course: Spring 2003
Shakespeare Survey (English 58): Fall 2002, Spring 2007
Yale University (1996-2002):
Shakespeare Lecture: Comedies and Romances, Fall 2001
Major English Poets: Chaucer, Spenser, and Lyric Poetry, Fall 1997-2001
English Comedy on the Renaissance Stage, Spring 1999 & Fall 2000
Shakespeare on Film, Spring 1999-2002
Shakespearean Sources: Texts and Contexts (Senior Seminar), Fall 1998 & Spring 2001, 2002
Ben Jonson and Literary Community, Spring 1997
Shakespeare's Progeny (Shakespeare, Film, and Modern Adaptations), Spring 1997
Introduction to Literary Study, Fall 1996