Title: Edwin Mims Professor of English
Department: English
Office: Benson 330
Phone: 615-322-2330
Email: l.marcus@vanderbilt.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
Publications
- Books
- Elizabeth I: Collected Works (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
- Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton (Routledge, 1996)
- Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and Its Discontents (University of California Press, 1988)
- The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes (University of Chicago Press, 1986)
- Childhood and Cultural Despair: A Theme and Variations in Seventeenth-Century Literature (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978)
- Selected Articles
- "Who Was Will Peter? Or, a Plea for Literary History" - Shakespeare Studies (1997)
- "Cyberspace Renaissance" - English Literary Renaissance (1995)
- "The Shakespearian Editor as Shrew-Tamer" - English Literary Renaissance (1992)
Biography
Leah Marcus is the Edwin Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt. She received her B.A. from Carleton College and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1971. Before coming to Vanderbilt in 1998, she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago; the Univerisity of Wisconsin, Madison; and the University of Texas, Austin. She teaches classes on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, Shakespeare, and Renaissance drama.
Her books include The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes (1986), Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and Its Discontents (1988), and Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton (1996). She is also the co-editor of two volumes of the writings of Elizabeth I: Elizabeth I: Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals (2003) and Elizabeth I: Collected Works (2000), which won the Prize from the Association of American Publishers. Her articles have appeared in journals such as English Literary History, English Literary Renaissance, and Shakespeare Quarterly. Her article "Textual Indeterminacy and Ideological Difference: The Case of Doctor Faustus" (Renaissance Drama, 1989) was awarded the Marlowe Society Prize for best essay on Marlowe in 1991.
