Dr. Rory Loughnane
My blogs
- Shakespeare, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
- Late Shakespeare: Texts and Afterlives
- Shakespeare
- Staff and Postgrad Seminar Series
- Shakespeare: Text, Stage, Screen
- Staging Transgression in the Early Modern Period
- Cyril Tourneur
- Romance Tutorials TCD
- Theatre tutorials TCD
- The Gods in Literature
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Visiting Asst. Professor of Early Modern Literature, Syracuse University |
| Location | Syracuse, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Dr. Rory Loughnane is the Visiting Asst. Professor of Early Modern Literature at Syracuse University. He completed his doctoral dissertation at Trinity College Dublin in June 2009 on the influence of the ars memorativae in early modern drama. He completed two short-term postdoctoral fellowships before being awarded an IRCHSS research fellow (2010-11). Dr. Loughnane is currently co-editing 'Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613' (Cambridge UP, forthcoming) with Andrew Power (TCD) and 'Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers' (Ashgate, forthcoming) with Willy Maley (Glasgow), and completing a monograph entitled 'Staging Memory: Recovering the Author in Early Modern Drama'. He is a contributing a chapter entitled 'The Medieval Inheritance' to 'The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Tragedies', eds. Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk, and is a contributing editor to 'The Lost Plays Database'. He is currently working on a new 'Complete Works of Cyril Tourneur' and an anthology of English writing on Ireland (1500-1700). He is the co-editor of 'The Yearbook of English Studies' on Caroline Drama (2014). |
| Interests | Early modern drama, revenge tragedy genre, ars memorativae, stage-craft, Shakespeare, Ireland Scotland Wales and Shakespeare, masques, memento mori, depictions of hell, Renaissance occultism, humanism, Dante, Boccaccio, Vasari, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Modernism, James Joyce, Millennialism, National identity, Post-colonial theory, History of the Novel, Semiotics, Shakespeare's late plays, Celtic Shakespeare, Cyril Tourneur, John Fletcher, Thomas Middleton, John Marston, John Webster, George Chapman, Francis Beaumont, Philip Sidney, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, James Shirley |