Steve Schillinger
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Steve听Schillinger, who is听interested in writing from the early modern period, focuses on the history of early print and its role in the history of dramatic literature and rhetoric. More narrowly, his research attempts to understand听the relationship between 16th听and 17th听century reading practices and the history of early writing technologies, especially early print practices.
He is currently working on an essay on reception history and the rhetoric of war in听Hamlet听补苍诲听The Big Lebowski.
Schillinger听has published pieces about听Christopher Marlowe鈥檚听The Massacre at Paris听and the anonymous听Jack Straw听play. His also has published work听about听The Merchant of Venice,听鈥淐onversations with Shylock: Audience Perception, Textual Control and Misreading in听The Merchant of Venice鈥澨齣苍听Texas Studies in Literature and Language听(2016)). His essay, "'Widow Dido鈥� Fighting the Footnotes: How to Teach Shakespeare鈥檚 Allusional Strategy Using 2.1 of听The听Tempest,鈥澨齱as published in听The Ashgate Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature听(2017).
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Recent Courses Taught
Renaissance Outsiders
Distinctions
- 2013 Finalist: Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Vermont
Appointed to the Faculty
2018Educational Background
Ph.D., University of Washington
M.A., University of Vermont
B.A., Bishop’s University
