Professor Russ McDonald
Position held:
Professor of English Literature
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 2963
Email:
r.mcdonald (@gold.ac.uk)
Room 502
5th Floor
Warmington Tower
Office hours:
Mon 16.00-17.00
Tues 13.00-14.00
BA (Honors) Duke University, 1971; MA, PhD University of Pennsylvania 1976 Reaching Positions at Mississippi State University, University of Hawaii, University of Rochester; Bank of America Excellence Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2004-2006; appointed Goldsmiths College, 2006
Teaching
I am currently the convenor of 'Renaissance Literature' and 'Engaging Poetry'; I am also teaching on Shakespeare.
Areas of supervision
Renaissance courtesy; early modern ideas about the legitimacy of language; 'Elizabethan' staging of Shakespeare in the 20th century
Professional activities
- Member, Shakespeare Association of America (Trustee, 1997-2000)
- Renaissance Society of America
- Modern Language Association of America
- Consultant, major university and scholarly presses
- Averitt Lecturer, Georgia Southern University, 2002
Research interests
My research interests include early modern writing, particularly poetics and rhetoric; English drama to 1700, particularly Shakespeare; history of Shakespearean performance. My current research examines poetic structures-the line, the couplet, the stanza-in light of Elizabethan visual culture, especially the passion for symmetry in architecture, gardening, clothing, and other areas of design. This project was supported by a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004-05.
Selected publications
- 'Parison, or Measure for Measure,' in Figures of Speech (forthcoming 2007, Cambridge UP)
- Shakespeare's Late Style (Cambridge UP, 2006)
- 'Look to the Lady': Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage (U of Georgia Press, 2005)
- Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1945-2000 (Blackwell, 2003)
- Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford UP, 2001)
- The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents (Bedford St. Martins, 1996; Second edition, 2001)
- 'Late Shakespeare: Style and the Sexes,' Shakespeare Survey 46 (1993)
- 'Reading The Tempest,' Shakespeare Survey 43 (1990)