William Carroll
wcarroll@bu.edu

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies. A.B., Oberlin; M.Phil, Ph.D., Yale 

Teaching and Research Interests:  Renaissance literature and culture; Shakespeare. 

Selected Publications: Editor, The New Arden The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2004); Editor, Macbeth: Texts and Contexts (1999); Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare (1996); Editor, Thomas Middleton, Women Beware Women (1994); The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy (1985); The Great Feast of Language in Love’s Labour’s Lost (1976); "(Re-)Staging Love's Labour Lost,“ Shakespeare Bulletin 25 (2007); Macbeth and the Show of Kings,” University Lecture (2005); “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:  Editor, the New Cambridge edition of Love's Labour's Lost  

Honors, Grants, and Awards: ALLS 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 Fellow (1985-86); Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching (1980); NEH Fellow (1978-79).


Other Professional Activities: President, Shakespeare Association of America (2005-06); Co-General Editor, New Mermaid Drama Series; Co-chair, Seminar on Shakespearean Studies (Harvard University); Member, MLA Shakespeare Variorum Edition Committe (2003-06)