Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois

Andrea Stevens

Assistant Professor of English

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Contact Information

Office Hours

  • On academic leave (Fall 2009)

Education

Ph.D., English literature, University of Virginia, 2007; M.A., English literature, Dalhousie University, 1998; B.A. Honours, Huron University College, 1997

Courses

Spring 2010: ENGL 204 (Renaissance Lit and Culture) and ENGL 524 (Seventeenth-Century Drama)

Research Interests

Shakespeare; early modern drama and performance; theater history; performance studies; theatrical materials

Publications

Book Contributions

  • "Drama as Performance and Text." The New Blackwell Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Ed. Michael Hattaway. 2011. forthcoming.
  • "'The Eunuch Much Sears Her Breast:' Remedying Adulteration in William Heminge’s The Fatal Contract." Thunder at a Playhouse: Essays on Shakespeare and the Early Modern Stage. Ed. Peter Kanelos and Matt Kozusko. Susquehanna Press, 2010.

Journal Articles

  • "Mastering Masques of Blackness." English Literary Renaissance 39 (2009): 396-426.
  • "'Assisted by a Barber:’ The Court Apothecary, Special Effects, and Ben Jonson’s The Gypsies Metamorphosed." Theatre Notebook 61.1 (2007): 2-11.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • "Robertson Davies;" "Billy Bishop Goes to War;" "Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots." Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Columbia UP, 2007.

Reviews

  • Rev. of Edward II at Navy Pier.Shakespeare Bulletin 27.1 (2009): 117-122.
  • Rev. of Bob Komar's Measure for Measure.Shakespeare Bulletin 27.2 (2009): forthcoming.
  • Rev. of The American Shakespeare Center 2007 Actors’ Renaissance Season and Summer Season.Shakespeare Bulletin 26.1 (2008): 181-186.
  • Rev. of Emmanuel Moses's "Last News of Mr. Nobody: Selected Poems."Verse (French Poetry and Poetics issue) 24.1-3 (2007): 336-338.
  • Rev. of Macbeth at Live Arts.Shakespeare Bulletin 24.2 (2006): 103-07.