James R. Siemon
jsiemon@bu.edu
Professor.  A.B., Washington University; M.A., Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo 

Teaching and Research Interests: Renaissance drama, especially Shakespeare; literary theory, especially the Bakhtin circle and Pierre Bourdieu

Selected Publications: Word Against Word: Shakespearean Utterance (2002); Shakespearean Iconoclasm (1985); Editor, Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (1994/rev 1997); “The power of hope? An Early Modern Reader of Richard III,” in A Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays, ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (2003); “Between the Lines: Bodies/Languages/Times,” Shakespeare Studies 28 (2000); “History, Histories, Historicism: Constructing the Past,” A Companion to the Renaissance, ed. Michael Hattaway (2000); “Dream of Fields: Early Modern (Dis)Positions,” in Historicism, Psychoanalysis and Early Modern Culture, ed. Carla Mazzio and Doug Trevor (1999); “‘Perplexed Beyond Self-explication’: Cymbeline in Early Modern/Post-modern Europe,” in Shakespeare in the New Europe, ed. Derek Roper and Michael Hattaway (1994); “Sign, Cause or General Habit,” The European Legacy 2 (1997); “Sporting Kyd,” ELR 24 (1994); “‘The Word Itself Against the Word’: Close Reading After Voloshinov,” in Shakespeare Reread, ed. Russ McDonald (1994); “‘Landlord not King’: Agrarian Change and Interarticulation,” in Enclosure Acts, ed. Richard Burt and John Michael Archer (1993); “Dialogical Formalism: Word, Action, and Object in The Spanish Tragedy,” Medieval and Renaissance Drama 5 (1990); “Subjected thus: Utterance, Character and Richard II,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch (DDR) 126 (1990); “‘Nay, that's not next’: Othello V.ii. in Performance, 1760-1900,” Shakespeare Quarterly (1986)

Work in Progress: New Arden Edition of King Richard III

Honors, Grants, and Awards: MLA Delegate Assembly (2004-07); Folger Institute Seminar (2003); Folger Library Short-Term Fellowship (1999); NEH travel grant (1985); NEH Folger Library Institute (1982)