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Heather Hirschfeld

Professor Hirschfeld's first book, Joint Enterprises, studies the phenomenon of the shared writing of playscripts by early modern English dramatists such as Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton. Her current research project concerns the theological grounds and investments of English Renaissance revenge tragedy.

Professor Hirschfeld teaches courses in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama and prose as well as classes in psychoanalysis and literature.

Selected Publications

  • Joint Enterprises: Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater, University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.

Representative articles

  • “Hamlet’s ‘first corse’: Trauma, Revenge, and the Displacement of Redemptive Typology,” Shakespeare Quarterly (Winter 2003): 424-448
  • “What Do Women Know?: The Roaring Girl and the Wisdom of Tiresias,” Renaissance Drama 32 (2003): 123-146
  • “Marvell and the Temporality of Paranoia,” Renaissance Papers 2002: 17-26
  • “Early Modern Collaboration and Theories of Authorship,” PMLA 116 (May 2001): 609-622
  • “Collaborating across Generations: Thomas Heywood, Richard Brome, and the Production of The Late Lancashire Witches,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30 (2000): 339-374
  • “Collaborative Pedagogy: An Experiment in Team-Teaching Shakespeare,” Renaissance Papers 1997: 75-86
  • “ ‘Work upon that now’: The Production of Parody on the English Renaissance Stage,” Genre 32 (1999): 175-200.

Book reviews

  • Seizures of the Will in Early Modern Drama, by Frank Whigham, Comparative Drama, 1999
  • Gender and Literacy on the English Renaissance Stage, by Eve Rachel Sanders, Albion, 2001
  • Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory, by Peter Stallybrass and Ann Rosalind Jones, Albion, 2002
  • A Dictionary of Stage Directions, by Alan Dessen and Leslie Thomson, Shakespeare Quarterly, 2003
  • Shakespeare and the Poets’ War, by James Bednarz, Shakespeare Survey, 2003.


Heather Hirschfeld

Contact Information

Heather Hirschfeld
Associate Professor
Department of English
214 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6948
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: hhirschf@utk.edu

Education

B.A., Princeton University
Ph.D., Duke University

Research

English Renaissance, Shakespeare, Theater History