It is with great sadness that the Portland State University community mourns the loss of Amy Elizabeth “Eliza” Greenstadt, Ph.D., a beloved faculty member in the School of Film, who passed away on February 9, 2024.
A. Eliza Greenstadt retired from PSU in 2021 after teaching in the English Department for 15 years and the School of Film for 5 years.
PUBLICATIONS
Out Renaissance: Early Modern Epistemologies of the Closet (in progress)
“Balthazar’s Beard: Looking (again) into the Merchant’s Closet.” New Critical Essays on The Merchant of Venice. Ed. M. Lindsay Kaplan. (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2020), 217-242.
“Strange Insertions in The Merchant of Venice.” Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality. Ed. Goran Stanivukovic (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017), 197–226.
“The Kindest Cut: Circumcision and Queer Kinship in The Merchant of Venice” ELH: English Literary History 80 (2013): 945–80.
A Reader’s Guide to Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania (Kindle, 2013).
“Margaret's Beard.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 5 (2010): 171–82.
Rape and the Rise of the Author: Gendering Intention in Early Modern England (Ashgate Press, 2009).
“Aemilia Lanyer’s Pathetic Phallacy.” The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 8:1 (Spring/Summer 2008): 67–97.