William Steffen

Assistant Professor of English

Education

Ph.D. in English – University of Massachusetts – Feb 2019
MA in English – University of Massachusetts – May 2014
BA in Literary Studies – Hampshire College – May 2011

Recent Publications

Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage
(Forthcoming 2023; under contract with Oxford University Press)
“Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Gall: The Wooden Economies of Race in Titus Andronicus
and Lust’s Dominion,” Renaissance Drama, Vol. 48, No. 2, (Fall 2020): 157-181.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/712101

“Grafting and Ecological Imperialism in John Fletcher’s Bonduca,” Journal for Early Modern
                Cultural Studies 17.1 (Winter 2017): 68-96.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/90003588?seq=1

Honors and Awards

J.Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize – Shakespeare Association of America (April 2020)

Summary of Courses Taught
INT2350: Mothers and Monsters: Feminist Investigations of the Creature Feature
ENG1202: Analytical Writing: Medicine and Literature
ENG1202: Analytical Writing: Detective Fiction and True Crime
ENG2325: Creative Writing
ENG2390: The Short Narrative
ENG3450: Environmental Literature
ENG2520: African American Literature
ENG3210: Drama in English
ENG3200: Special Topics: Cannibal Fictions
ENG4375: Approaches to Literary Study
ENG2410: Western World Literature
ENG3800: Shakespeare
ENG1201: Composition I
COM2500: Newspaper/Publishing Lab

Recent Conference Presentations

• Shakespeare Association of America, Denver CO (Remote) (April 2020)
  Paper: “The unkindest tied that ever any man tied”: Hemp, Tobacco, Fire, and Race on the Early Modern Stage
• Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Davis CA (June 2019) Paper: Globalizing Smoke, Hemp, and Arson on the Early Modern English Stage
• Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Washington DC (April 2019)
  Paper: “Show the heavens more just”: Shaking the Superflux and Finding Balance in King Lear

Professional Affiliations
American Association of University Professors
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Modern Language Association
Shakespeare Association of America