William Carroll
wcarroll@bu.edu
http://blogs.bu.edu/wcarroll/

Professor; Chairman. A.B., Oberlin; M.Phil, Ph.D., Yale 

Teaching and Research Interests:  Early modern literature and culture; Shakespeare. 
Selected Publications:  Editor, Love’s Labour’s Lost (New Cambridge Shakespeare; 2009); Editor, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Arden Third Series; 2004); Editor, Macbeth: Texts and Contexts (The Bedford Shakespeare; 1999); Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare (1996); Editor, Thomas Middleton, Women Beware Women (New Mermaid Drama; 1994); The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy (1985); The Great Feast of Language in Love’s Labour’s Lost (1976); “(Re-)Staging Love’s Labour’s Lost,” Shakespeare Bulletin 25 (2007);  “Macbeth and the Show of Kings,” University Lecture (2005); “‘Two truths are told’:  Afterlives and Histories of Macbeths,” Shakespeare Survey 57 (2004); “Songs of Madness: The Lyric Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Poor Tom,” Shakespeare Survey 55 (2003); “Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama,” Studies in English Literature 41 (2001); “‘And love you ‘gainst the nature of love’: Ovid, Rape and The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” in Shakespeare’s Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems, ed. A.B. Taylor (2000); “Semiotic Slippage: Identity and Authority in the English Renaissance,” The European Legacy 2.2 (1997); “The Virgin Not: Language and Sexuality in Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Survey 46 (1994); “Language, Politics, and Poverty in Shakespearean Drama,” Shakespeare Survey 44 (1992); “‘The Base Shall Top Th’Legitimate’: The Bedlam Beggar and the Role of Edgar in King Lear,” Shakespeare Quarterly 38 (1987).
Work in Progress:  The Tragedy of Genealogy:  Shakespearean Drama 1595-1605 (book).
Honors, Grants, and Awards: ACLS Senior Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship, Huntington Library Fellowship (2007); Whiting Foundation Fellowship (1992, 2000); American Philosophical Society Grant (1992); NEH Summer Stipend (1989); ACLS Senior Fellowship (1985-86); Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching (1980); NEH Fellowship (1978-79) .
Other Professional Activities: President, Shakespeare Association of America (2005-06); Co-General Editor, New Mermaid Drama Series; Editorial Board, Shakespeare Quarterly (2008- ); Co-chair, Seminar on Shakespearean Studies (Harvard University); Member, MLA Shakespeare Variorum Edition Committe (2003-06).