Dr. Kevin Curran

Assistant Professor
BA, MA, PhD (University College Dublin)
Postdoctoral Fellow (McGill University)

Dr. Curran specializes in Renaissance literature and theater with particular interests in Shakespeare, law, philosophy and critical theory, and the culture of the court. His first book, Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court (Ashgate, 2009), looks at how political, religious, and sexual understandings of "union" came to bear on the formation of a uniquely Jacobean political imagination. Curran is also preparing an edition of Samuel Daniel's play, The Tragedy of Philotas (1605), which will be published by Manchester University Press as part of the "Revels Plays" series. His new book project is called Shakespearean Jurisprudence.

BOOK:

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court (Ashgate, 2009)

ARTICLES:

"Erotic Policy: King James, Thomas Campion, and the Rhetoric of Anglo-Scottish Marriage." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 7.1 (2007): 55-77

"Shakespeare and Daniel Revisited: Antony and Cleopatra 2.5.50-4 and The Tragedy of Philotas 5.2.2013-15." Notes & Queries 54.3 (2007): 318-20.

"James I and Fictional Authority at the Palatine Wedding Celebrations." Renaissance Studies 20.1 (2006): 51-67.

"Virtual Scholarship: Navigating Early Modern Studies on the World Wide Web." Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (2006): 1-23.

"Treasonous Silence: The Tragedy of Philotas and Legal Epistemology." English Literary Renaissance (forthcoming)  
                                                                                            
"Renaissance Non-Humanism." Renaissance Studies (forthcoming)

Office: 407F
Phone: 940.565.2150
Email: kcurran@unt.edu

Personal Page http://kdcurran.googlepages.com/curran

Textual Studies, 1500-1800 http://textualstudies.blogspot.com/