Jonathan Walker

Jonathan Walker


Professor

English - Liberal Arts & Sciences

Office
FMH 318M
Phone
(503) 725-3556

Fields: English Renaissance Drama, Theories of Drama and Performance, Textual Theory, History of the Book, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Critical Theory

Public Humanities Project:

  • Shakespeare's First Folio: 1623–2023, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the earliest collection of Shakespeare's plays. Programming includes an exhibition, a speaker series, a film festival, and performances of Shakespearean drama, opera, and music. August 2023–May 2024 in Portland, Oregon.

Books:

Recent Articles and Chapters:

  • “Is There an Editor in This Text? Renaissance Drama and Bibliographical History,” Creating the Premodern in the Postmodern Classroom, ed. Anna Riehl Bertolet and Carole Levin (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018), 179–191.
  • “thou vnnecessarie letter: ‘The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore,’” The Hare, 3.1 (2018).
  • “Reading Materiality: The Literary Critical Treatment of Physical Texts,” Renaissance Drama 41 (2013): 199–232.
  • “The Spatial Rhetoric of Chicago Shakespeare Theater,” Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word, ed. Regina Buccola and Peter Kanelos (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013), 57–74.

Recent Book Reviews:

  • Tamara Atkin and Laura Estill, eds., Early British Drama in Manuscript (Brepols, 2019). Manuscript Studies 6 (2021): 185–190.

On the PSU faculty since 2004.

Education
  • Ph.D.
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  • M.A.
    Purdue University
  • B.A.
    Rollins College