FACULTY

Associate Professor. B.A., English, with honors, University of Chicago; M.A., English, Ph.D., English, with distinction, University of Illinois.

Professor Sebek specializes in early modern British literature. Favorite recent courses include Jonson and Shakespeare, Different Shakespeares, Renaissance Drama, Principles of Literary Criticism, and independent studies on “Feminist and Post-colonial Appropriations of Shakespeare” and “Gender and Performance in Early Modern Drama.” Interests in the economic contexts of renaissance plays and England’s expanding global networks inform publications such as her introduction to Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in Early Modern Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Palgrave, 2008)—a collection co-edited with Stephen Deng of Michigan State University—and “Morose’s Turban,” a contribution to Jean Howard’s forum on English Cosmopolitanism in Shakespeare Studies (2007). Forthcoming work includes a chapter in Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani’s Mediating Worlds: Emissaries in Early Modern Literature (Ashgate) and an essay on English traders in the Canary Islands in Jyotsna Singh’s Companion to the Global Renaissance (Blackwell). Earlier essays and reviews appear in The Tempest: Critical Essays, Playing the Globe: Genre and Geography in Renaissance Drama, Journal X, Shakespeare Quarterly, Theatre Research International, Sixteenth Century Studies, and Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar. She advises Honors English majors, the Pagan Student Alliance, and the English Club.

Phone: 970 491 6846
Email Address: Barbara.Sebek@colostate.edu